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the Advancement of Sciences. In Lynn Davis’s spare time she works with silver to make very attractive original jewelry. Beth Irby Beale still lives in Richmond. Beth’s daughter, Thornton Beale ’06, will be celebrating her 10th St. C reunion while all of us will be celebrating our 40th. Don’t miss it!
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Becky Pugh, 2 Eagle Ridge Ct., Bethesda, MD 20817; becky@bonejour.com
The class of ’77 has all kinds of things going on. Lots of us still have children in school. Leezie Paul Ott’s daughter Catie Ott made the Penn State Equestrian Team. Jane Byrd Paxton’s daughter Clare is a freshman at UVA. Mary Stuart Bolling Smith’s daughter Lucy Gordon transferred from the University of South Carolina to UVA this year. Lucy Gordon and Lizzie Stallings ’12, daughter of Beth McCree Stallings ’78 both made their debut at the Bal du Bois in May. Nell Stephens Heneghan and her husband Dan are living in Wilmington, N.C. They are grandparents to two beautiful grandsons who they love playing with at the beach and at their barn with loads of animals. They are active in their faith community and visit Richmond often to see their daughter Bridget. This summer Nell connected with Buffy Woods Anderson at Wrightsville Beach for a little St. C’s nostalgia. Judge Ginny Munoz is still slugging away at crime from her perch in the Supreme Court of Virginia. In her spare time she is busy participating in local theater, travelling with husband Rick Fowler and finding homes for dogs and cats! Their goal is to one day retire to NYC or Paris. Lynda Wornom Wright has been on the library faculty at Randolph Macon College since 2005. She is the curator of an oral history project called Macon Memories and recently has focused the project on the desegregation of RMC. Suzanne French Keesler and her husband Carl celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary. On a somber note, we were all so sorry to hear about Andrew and Elizabeth Craig Parkinson’s loss of their son William in May. It is a loss that no parent should experience. Our thoughts have been and will continue to be with them and their family. Happy Martin Willis has a new facebook page Happy Martin Interior Design. Go on Facebook and give her a LIKE! Ellen Langford Hayes attended an Episcopal Church Conference in February and took a yoga class from classmate Frances Murchison. Ellen says “it was great to catch up!” Lynda Richardson reports, “This year is my 5th year of teaching Commercial Photography & Digital Arts at the Chesterfield Technical Center. I am still a professional photographer during my summer breaks from teaching. This past summer I shot an ad campaign for the Southern Environmental Law Center against off-shore drilling along the East Coast. My husband, Mike
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Ostrander is a full-time fishing and tour guide on the James River. He offers fantastic bald eagle and sturgeon tours (which are only in the fall) which everyone should check out at www.discoverthejames.com.” Your correspondent still has a 4th grader! Wren just started the Diener School. Our son Connor Jabs is now a graduate of UGA in finance and daughter Hilary Jabs is a second year law student at Lewis and Clark. Like many of you, I experienced a big loss this year. My father, George L. Pugh, passed away from complications due to cancer in July. So hold yours near and dear! Please send me your news at becky@bonejour. com! If you don’t, I’ll make it up!
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Meredith Owen Holbrook, 6 Ridgewood Rd., St. Louis, MO 63124; meredithholbrook@hotmail.com
Our condolences to Margaret Burlee Hazelgrove whose brother Billy Burlee passed away in July. Virginia Schenck’s work with vocal improvisation in the therapeutic setting was published in the International Dictionary of Music Therapy. Her 2015 Jazz Vocal Release “Interior Notions” is receiving global airplay, and Virginia’s work is ranked once again on the JazzWeek charts! Elaine Powell Cook has a rising high school senior, a daughter McKenzie (named after her mom, Christy McKenzie Williamson ’53) and a rising 8th grader, son Jack. “I’m doing college road trips, packing school lunches and whipping out my AARP card at the same. Life is HILARIOUS!” On April 29 several alumnae gathered at the home of Dede Clinger Andrews. Attendees included Eliana Makhlouf Thacher (who was in Richmond visiting her father), Kathleen Will Mackey, Beth McRee Stallings, Marjorie Perrin, Liz Williams Bisset, Anne Howell McElroy, Debbie Cosby Kelley, Marty Pollard Easton, Mary Spratley Doss, Missy Way Goode, Joy Todd Calkins, and Dede’s sister Shelly Clinger Akers ’80. Dede reports, “Life is good for the Andrews’ family. Forrest is a second year at UVA, Gracie is a Physical Therapy Assistant here in Richmond. Hobie and I are celebrating our 30th anniversary this September. We are so fortunate to have all the Clinger family here in Richmond Shelly ’80, Sarah Clinger Ruffin ’82 and brother Chad (St. Chris ’82) and I along with our father
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Dave and his wife Alice.” Eliana reports, “I got married for first time on May 23, 2014 to Hugh Auchincloss Thacher, originally of Riverdale, N.Y. and long time resident of San Francisco. Hugh founded the San Francisco Wine Exchange, a wine marketing and distribution company, which he ran for over 40 years until he sold the business and retired at the end of last year. I decided to retire as well from my 25-year career as an environmental engineer and consultant. It’s been a busy a year for both of us with the sale of building and a 14-month remodel and addition to our home in San Francisco, including installing an elevator and other retrofits that will allow us to age-in-place — we refer to it as ‘geezering the house.’ Fortunately, we were able to move into to one of our apartments so as not to endure living in a construction site. We are happy to be back in our home with the remodel behind us and know we can live here until we die. We are still trying to figure out how we will spend the next 50 years and are excited by the prospect of having the time and energy to give back to our local and global communities. We also plan to do quite a bit of traveling and fly fishing around the world, which started with our delayed honeymoon to New Zealand last February. I made a last minute trip to Santa Fe, N.M. to see one of my closest Richmond friends, Maxine McCowan (Collegiate ’80) and neighbors in the Fan, and mentioned what a wonderful time I had catching up with St. Catherine’s classmates.”
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Needs correspondent!
Cecelia Barksdale married Olin Leo Purvis III on September 18, 2015.
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Madeline Hutcheson Mayhood, 7441 Hill Dr., Richmond, VA 23225; madeline7@gmail.com
Please send us your news!
35th Reunion Maria Williams Swindell, 414 Alabama Rd., Baltimore, MD 21204; mtntm@msn.com Margaret Coker Hungerford has become a Style Ambassador for India Hicks new line
We inadvertently ran the wrong photo with a spotlight on Ann Hardy ’80 in the summer issue of “St. Catherine's Now.” Ann was instrumental in raising awareness for women cyclists during the UCI World Cycling Championships in Richmond this past September. We sincerely regret the error.