St. Catherine's Now Summer 2015

Summer 2015 Vol. 73 No. 2

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Emory Gill Williams '36 (far right) and her field hockey teammates. Athletics have been a big part of St. Catherine's since the 2early years. Source "Quair" 1934

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In every issue V I S I O N N OW

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on the vision of St. Catherine’s founder Virginia Randolph Ellett.

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6 News 10 Career Day Speakers 12 Gatherings

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28 Reunion Weekend 2015 30 2015 St. Catherine’s Distinguished

Alumna Award & the Adelaide Rawles Fippen ’30 Outstanding Service Award 32 Letter from the President of the Richmond Alumnae Board, Karrie Burnham Southall ’94 33 Class Notes 37 Spotlight: Dr. Lucy Anderson ’60 46 Spotlight: Ann Hardy ’81 50 Spotlight: Monique Cheng Joe ’90 58 Births and Adoptions 60 Marriages 61 Memorials

B OA RD I N G MEMO RI ES

63 Remembering the Boarders’ Bistro:

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On the cover Girls seated for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Virginia Randolph Ellett School for Girls at the Westhampton Campus (St. Catherine's current location) on Thursday, May 24, 1917.

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Back in Time & Across Generations

Judy Carpenter Hawthorne ’75 explores the 125-year history of the School through her own family’s stories and the tales of other alumnae.

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Graduation and Senior Highlights

Celebrate the Class of 2015 through photos, stories and highlights.

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St. Catherine’s Now Summer 2015 Vol. 73 No. 2 Head of School

years ago. Think about her educational

Terrie Hale Scheckelhoff, Ph.D.

opportunities and ability to follow

Executive Editor

her dreams. Think about her role in society.

Founded in 1890, the Virginia Randolph Ellett School which later became St. Catherine’s School helped change the paradigm for girls.

Our School continues to create an ideal learning environment for girls where their intellectual curiosity thrives, individuality shines, and confidence abounds. As we enter our

Theodora Miller Director of Marketing and Communications Editor and Designer

Haley Hollenbach Director of Publications Contributing Writers

Carter Dixon Jennifer Harter Judy Carpenter Hawthorne ’75 Sarah Martin Hergüner ’77 Lizzy Hopkinson Kathryn LeBey '16 Director of Development

125th year, we pause to reflect on our illustrious past and to strengthen our commitment to

Debbie Andrews Dunlap ’70

preparing our girls for their futures.

Assistant Director of Development

It all started when our founder Virginia Randolph Ellett, “Miss Jennie,” had a vision for girls and women that transcended 1800’s thinking. An educated woman herself, Miss Jennie had a deep respect for the power of knowledge. Her school provided myriad opportunities for girls, including experiential learning, preschool education, English literature, and foreign language. Her students enjoyed history plays, Socratic debates, and field trips.

She was a pioneer in encouraging her girls to pursue higher education and was a major factor in Richmond’s selection as one of only eight cities in the world in which College Entrance Board Exams were given annually for women. Virginia Randolph Ellett made a difference for all girls, not just the ones at St. Catherine’s. I am in awe of her and her vision, strength, and commitment.

The daughter of a fallen Civil War soldier, Miss Jennie overcame significant obstacles and modeled courage and tenacity for others. I am confident that she would be beaming with pride to witness today’s generation of St. Catherine’s girls and teachers. Although the faces and names have changed, we carry forward with us the same timeless ideals on which Miss Jennie built her school 125 years ago. Our girls and teachers challenge themselves to acquire knowledge and to develop skills, passions, and courage that allow them to pursue lives of meaning. Miss Jennie’s legacy is a part of us forever.

I hope that you will take time to reflect on our tremendous growth in the last 125 years and partner with us in creating the next 125 years! The future is bright at

Katherine Ferguson

Director of Alumnae Affairs

Laura Spratley Birdsey ’96 Photography

Maddy Fratarcangelo '17 Jennifer Harter Dean Hawthorne Haley Hollenbach Matthew Lester Theodora Miller Jim Robb “St. Catherine’s Now” is a publication of St. Catherine’s School, 6001 Grove Ave., Richmond, VA 23226, 804.288.2804; alumnae@st.catherines.org.

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS It’s time to nominate athletes, teams, coaches and individuals for the St. Catherine’s Athletic Hall of Fame. All nominations are due by August 31.

Go online www.st.catherines.org/halloffame or call the Athletic Department at 804.288.2804 to receive a nomination form. It is important to submit a thorough nomination.

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The St. Catherine’s School Athletic Hall of Fame recognizes, honors and celebrates outstanding achievements of athletes, coaches and others who have made significant contributions to the Saints athletic program and women's athletics. Mark your calendar for Hall of Fame weekend Jan. 29-30, 2016.

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I wish you could find the human in me.

I wish we could live in harmony.

We’re red We’re Red. We’re Red. We’re passionate Red. When we all look inside we’re Red.

find the human A Voice of Inspiration

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oor Samee is not afraid to use her voice — through song, words and actions.

And she is getting the opportunity to express herself through a variety of channels with people around the world.

“My voice may be just one of millions, but if I can do anything to make silenced, oppressed voices louder, it will all be worth it,” Samee said.

A sophomore, Samee was recently selected as one of just 13 bloggers for the Voices of Youth, a program of the United Nations Children's Fund. At 15, she is the youngest of the bloggers and the only American represented. The internship runs through July 31.

“Through the Voices of Youth internship, I want to explore and develop my personal writing skills and learn from the interns around me,” Samee said. “I'm so excited to be working with Voices of Youth, as the United Nations has inspired me ever since I was a young girl.”

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As a Muslim from a minority sect, Samee has expressed her views on several occasions in the Richmond TimesDispatch and was even named a finalist for Correspondent of the Year for one of her pieces last fall.

“Expression allows me to release my thoughts and feelings instead of bottling them up,” Samee said. “Writing helps me understand myself and the world around me in a realistic way. But not only good for me, it's good for the people around me.

“When young girls see another young girl doing phenomenal things, they feel empowered to do them too. When Muslims see other Muslims speak out about their rights, they feel brave enough to do the same.”

In April Samee was invited by Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones to speak as a guest panelist for the 2015 Annual Educational Seminar. This year’s theme was “Youth Voice Matters” inspired by Malala Yousafzai’s quote “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

“It’s agency, not ego for her,” Upper School English teacher Cynthia Lotze told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “She just lives what she believes so actively.”

Moved by the tragic events in Ferguson, Mo. and other world events at the same time, Samee penned a song showcasing that we aren’t really as different as we think. She didn’t intend for the words to come together as a song, she simply needed to express herself.

Samee performed the song for Middle Schoolers, accompanied on the piano by Sue Baldwin, Assistant Head of School and Director of Middle School.

The powerful result was a ballad of moving words: “I wish you could find the human in me; I wish we could live in harmony; We’re Red. We’re Red. We’re passionate Red. When we all look inside we’re Red.” To hear Samee’s song visit: soundcloud.com/noor-samee/red To read Samee’s blogs visit: www.voicesofyouth.org

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Students Win Gold at Physics Olympics St. Catherine’s students showcased their physics prowess at the University of Richmond Physics Olympics this spring as the four-person, all-girls’ team captured first place.

Members of the winning team are Nikki Aganbi, Ari Aganbi, Aniela Macek and Yeuming Chen (pictured right). The coed team of Sasha Savenko, Will McKinnon, Wil Venitz and Max Macek finished third. Twenty-one teams from across the state competed.

The teams competed in six different events over the course of the day including designing and building a device that harnesses an air current to lift the greatest mass, estimating massive and diminutive sums, and making a helium-filled balloon sink to the floor as slowly as possible by weighing it down with M&M's.

ST. CATHERINE’S HOSTING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

STUDENTS SPEND EARTH DAy WITH GOVERNOR

STUDENTS SUPPORT TODDLER FROM ST. LUCIA

More than 500 educators from girls’ A group of fifth grade girls celebrated Earth It was fate. When the St. Catherine's schools around the world will descend Day with a very special guest – Governor Middle Schoolers heard the name of the upon St. Catherine’s for three days in Terry McAuliffe. infant boy from St. Lucia who needed late June for the National Students in Katherine Mangum’s heart surgery, they knew they were meant Coalition of Girls’ Schools fifth grade homeroom joined Governor to help him.

(NCGS) annual conference.

McAuliffe, first lady Dorothy McAuliffe, His name? Hollison St. Catherine.

Educators will engage in AmeriCorps volunteers, officials from Middle and Lower School students hands-on activities focused Virginia State Parks, and the Department joined together in partnership with the on the conference theme of Conservation and Recreation at World Pediatric Project to raise the “From STEM to STEAM: Pocahontas State Park in support of the money for his surgery here in Richmond.

Girls' Schools Leading Governor’s Conservation Initiative.

Eighth graders Jonesy Wilbanks, Belle the Way.” They will The students worked with Governor O’Keefe and Arlo Gray led the fundraisshare classroom mateMcAuliffe and the other officials to create ing efforts. rials, learn about a monarch butterfly habitat. Governor In addition to jeans days and other fundweb-based teaching resources and McAuliffe also introduced his Virginia raising activities, the students sold "Love exchange best practices for teaching girls. the Treasures a Dove" necklaces to support Hollison's Girls’ Schools Leading Way program that same day.

Conference goers will also hear from St. Catherine’s Middle School students travel. The dove is the symbol for the World 2015 Conference leading experts in technology and education. attending the event were Jewell Cleveland, Pediatric Project. The students raised more Featured speakers include: NASA Chief Olivia Head, Neely McDowell, Sage Polak, than $5,000 to help pay for his travel with Scientist Dr. Ellen Stofan, Girls Who Code Mary Kate Richards, Cathryn Short, Katie his mother.

Founder and CEO Reshma Saujani and Smith and Mimi White.

And when Hollison visited St. Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe.

This isn’t the first project students have Catherine's in early February, he received St. Catherine’s students and teachers will worked on at Pocahontas State Park this the rock star treatment as everyone from present at the conference as well. Rising school year. Last fall 23 St. Catherine’s junior kindergarten to eighth grade wanted seniors Regan Ellis, Connor Haynes and students partnered with RVA MORE and to visit with him.

Juliana Jiranek will talk about Student-Led Friends of Pocahontas State Park to widen Hollison’s surgery was successful; he Independent Research. Fourteen faculty trails in order to make them more accesrecovered fully and returned to St. Lucia members will present during sessions sible for handcyclists. in May. on topics such as Underwater Robotics (utilizing the Kenny Center pool), Music + Geography + Writing = Relevant and 125 MERCHANDISE Stop by the St. Catherine’s Enriched Math Instruction and STEAM in Bookstore, located on St. Catherine’s Lane, to the Early Childhood Outdoor Classroom. check out all of the new merchandise for the 125th Educators will also experience BetaBox, celebration. The Bookstore is open all summer, a mobile prototyping lab, sponsored by 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Monday-Friday.

Capital One.

From STEM to STEAM

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School Chaplain Ordained Episcopal Priest

Surrounded by her family, friends, colleagues and students, The Rev. Dorothy A. White, D.Min., was ordained into the Sacred Order of Priests in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia on March 21 in Bannard Chapel. The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff performed the ordination and the Rev. Gary Jones delivered the sermon.

“The theologian Karl Barth has been quoted as saying, ‘Joy is the simplest form of gratitude,’ ” said White, the School’s Chaplain.

“Today my heart is filled with joy.”

White converted to the Episcopal faith in 2009, and she was ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church in 2013 and ordained as a Transitional Deacon in September 2014. White was appointed School Chaplain in 2013, and has been a beloved member of our School family since joining St. Catherine’s in 2001 as a dorm parent. She was previously licensed and ordained to the Gospel Ministry of the Baptist Church.

“Dorothy is a gift to our School and its members,” Head of School Dr. Terrie Hale Scheckelhoff said.

During the last 14 years, White has held numerous positions in the Middle and Upper Schools, including teaching religion classes, Middle School Chaplain and later Upper School Chaplain. She is an active member of the Upper School Guidance Team and the Upper School Community Action Team. She also serves as Director of Religious Studies and leads our Middle and Upper School Chapel services.

Legacy CORRECTION

Below are corrections to our fall issue listing of new legacy students for 2014-2015:

L to R: Kate Williams 2027, Great-Grandmother— Emory Gill Williams ’36, Great-Great Grandmother— Fanny Miller Williams ’07; Allie Adamson 2027, Mother—Lindsay Bowen Adamson ’93, Grandmother— Norvell Lamb Adamson ’65, Great-Grandmother— Ann Nicholson Adamson ’45, Great-Grandmother— Norvell Henley Lamb ’39, Great- Great-Grandmother— Janie Boulware Lamb ’09; Ginny Green 2027, Great Grandmother-Dorothy Cralle Sampson '44

InSPIRE & DAISY DAYS 2015

Seven Decades of Service

We bid farewell to four educators who have a combination of 77.5 years of service to St. Catherine's School. Laura McCutcheon, director of Library Services; Derek Kannemeyer, Upper School world languages (French) teacher; Vicky Allen, network administrator and Pam Haner, Middle School math teacher (L to R) are retiring.

McCuthcheon (32 years) and Kannemeyer (34 years) both spent more than three decades working with our students. We extend our gratitude to all four educators for their dedication to the students and the Mission of St. Catherine's School.

INSPIRE Festival of the Arts overcame adverse winter weather conditions by moving to a week night with a condensed format. INSPIRE chair Lyn Savedge Page ’85 (right) worked closely with Arts Coordinator Kendall Neely to showcase the incredible creativity and talent of our students.

Co-chairs Cary Williams and Sara Chapman Waechter ’97 (right) led a team of volunteers for a successful Daisy Days in spite of the rainy, cool weather. The event, in its 39th year, raised an amazing $90,000 for the School.

Many thanks to our Co-chairs and the countless volunteers who made this community event possible.

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Reflections on X-Term

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By Kathryn LeBey ’16, excerpt from March issue of "The Arcadian”

-Term presents an opportunity rarely found at many schools, and, if used as more than a break from classes, it can prove incredibly valuable.

The mandatory “Exploring Ethical Responses to Poverty” cohort for freshmen, includes several benefits. First off, participants get to view and interact with a side of Richmond many of them are not otherwise exposed to. The cohort enables them to explore the city and it facilitates the completion of meaningful community service.

Sophomores have the ability to choose their cohort for the first time. The wide berth of options and the selection process can seem daunting: what if upperclassmen take all the spots on that cool international trip? What if I wind up not liking what I sign up for? Though occasional cases of a student not enjoying his or her X-Term can occur, most end up where they need to be. I experienced this phenomenon first-hand my own sophomore year: after I was somehow not initially assigned to a cohort, I had to choose from the more limited options that had space left. Eventually, I found myself in Mr. Sanchez’s mural painting class. I am not, nor will I ever probably become, a talented painter. However, prior to this cohort, I had focused nearly all my creativity into the singular field of creative writing. The act of working in a different genre of art gave me a breath of fresh air and reminded me that I do not have to cross myself off into a corner artistically. Whenever I see that painting of doughnuts in the cafeteria, to which I contributed heavily, I am reminded that creativity knows no boundaries.

X-Term is welcomed probably the most happily by juniors yearning for a break from interdisciplinary projects and seemingly endless homework. While some proactively tour colleges, plan for adulthood in “In the Year 2025”, or prep for the dreaded SAT, others prepare for the future in less obvious ways. For example, this year, I travelled to New Mexico for an artists’ retreat cohort. “New MeX-term,” as we referred to it, gave me my first experience with many aspects of a real artist’s life, including pitching a long-term project and presenting my work daily for an open critique. If I ever fulfill my lifelong dream of a career in creative writing or even journalism, these newly-developed skills will assuredly prove valuable. Though roaming New Mexico to write poetry, make jewelry, and paint may seem random, it also reinforced my love of creating art. The confidence booster of a real movie producer asking me to write and send him a screenplay wasn’t so bad either!

Seniors get top priority in the assignment of cohorts and can even design their own. As I move closer and closer to my final year of high school, I am already excited for the culmination of my experiences with X-Term. The program has truly influenced my time at St. Catherine’s and likely will continue to do so after I graduate.

X-Term is a yearlong enrichment program coordinated with St. Christopher's.

Photo: Maddy Fratarcangelo '17

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Career Day 2015

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r. Joy Draper ’85 sat in Bannard Chapel as a sophomore listening to an alumna talking about her work as a missionary. Right then and there she knew what she wanted to do with her life.

Now more than 30 years later, Dr. Draper is a Missionary Doctor and Director of the Department of Obstetrics

“You never know where your story may take you” Career Day Keynote speaker Dr. Joy Draper '85 (above left) pictured with an intern at the Tenwek Mission Hospital in Bomet, Kenya. Dr. Draper is the Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the hospital.

and Gynecology at the Tenwek Mission Hospital in Bomet, Kenya. Dr. Draper was the keynote speaker for the Upper School Career Day held in conjunction with Reunion Weekend in April.

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“I’ve come full circle now as the Career Day speaker,” she said.

Each spring, St. Catherine's welcomes back a group of incredible alumnae to talk with Upper School students about their careers. Students attend multiple sessions throughout the day, which serves as the kickoff to Reunion Weekend.

“Nothing is more wonderful than bringing our own back to campus to share their stories with us,” Head of School Dr. Terrie Hale Scheckelhoff said.

Dr. Draper shared experiences about her work with the girls and women in Africa and the joy she receives from listening to their incredible stories. She encouraged the students to think about their own story and to be open to the plot ahead of them.

“You never know where your story may take you,” Dr. Draper said.

To read more about this year’s speakers, visit st.catherines.org/careerday.

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CAMPUS Speaker HIGHLIGHTS Dr. Edward Ayers University of Richmond President Kathryn Bertine Professional Cyclist, Writer and Director of the documentary "Half the Road"

Career Day 2015 Participants

Tucker Carrington '84 St. Chris Alum, Founding Director of the Mississippi Innocence Project and Clinic at the University of Mississippi

Senator Penny Baldwin Williams ’55 Former Oklahoma State Senator

Lee Addison Lesley ’90 Owner of Addison Weeks

Jane Helfrich CEO, Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity

Archer Dodson Heinzen ’60 Psychologist/International Development Worker

Caroline Ewing Burd ’95 Director of Broadcast Content Development, Walmart

Jay Ipson Co-Founder, Virginia Holocaust Museum

Dr. Abigail Norfleet James ’65 Former Adjunct Professor of Education, University of Virginia

Dr. Alice Nelson Herlihy ’95 Pulmonary and Critical Care, Pulmonary Associates of Richmond

Roxie Munro award-winning Author/Illustrator

Lillian Glover Young ’65 Opera Singer

Anne Sidney Davenport Hetherington ’95 Principal of the Children’s Division and Lower Division of the School of Richmond Ballet; former professional dancer with the Richmond Ballet

Virginia Christian Beach ’75 Author, Freelance Writer & Editor Charlotte Fox ’75 Retired Professional Ski Patroller Amelie Rives Rennolds ’75 Principal at Amelie Rives Rennolds, Architecture, PLLC

Tyler Lewis Perry ’95 Partner and General Manager, Bateman Group

The Honorable Angela E. Roberts Presiding Judge at the Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Court Ginny Sutton Turner '01 Head Field Hockey Coach Davidson College

Jameka Whitten ’95 CEO and Owner, JSW Media Group

Dr. Betty Baugh Harrison, ’77 Veterinarian and Owner, Betty Baugh’s Animal Clinic

Kirstine Wilson ’95 Global Head of Federation and Quant Talent Acquisition, Goldman Sachs

Laura Edwards ’80 Founder and Board Chair, Women AdvaNCe

Leigh Bladergroen Glatt ’00 Former Professional Actress

Frances Taylor McEachran, ’80 Coach, Star Aquatics and College Hill Crossfit

Dr. Ann Robertson Vaughters ’00 Pediatrician, Bon Secours Lee Davis Pediatrics

Dr. Joy C. Draper ’85 Missionary Doctor, Director, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tenwek Mission Hospital, Bomet, Kenya

Elizabeth Wilson Marion '05 Program Manager and Department Coordinator in the Entertainment Industry

Monique Cheng Joe ’90 Head of Intellectual Property, DreamWorks Animation

Dr. Michael Rao Virginia Commonwealth University President

Elizabeth Berry, ’10 Operations Assistant, Rerun Restaurants

Mae Shields Civil Rights activist (pictured above) Karen Smyers World champion triathlete and Ironman champion Jessica Yellin Former CNN White House correspondent 11

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Gatherings

James Madison University

Elon University

L to R: Hannah O’Neill ’14, Liza Blackburn ’14, Katherine Maloney ’13, Colby Bedell ’13

Virginia Tech L to R: Laurie Hooker McCarthy ’87, Rachel Daniels ’13, Alexa Cornett ’14, Augusta Moss ’14, Morgan Mistr ’14, Laura Spratley Birdsey ’96

NY with

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L to R: Kirstine Wilson ’95, Katherine Ferguson (St. Catherine’s Assistant Director of Development), Will Ferguson (St. Chris ’95), Laura Spratley Birdsey ’96

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L to R: Laurie Hooker McCarthy ’87, Anne Peyton Leitch ’11, Laura Spratley Birdsey ’96, Marshall Moore ’12, Cabell Doswell ’11

College of William & Mary Alumnae at William & Mary joined Director of Athletics Julie Dayton and the Alumnae office at Berret’s Seafood in Williamsburg, Va.

Boston with

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L to R: Julie Akuamoah ’97,Louise Totten Knabe ’87, Ruthie Hill Klinck ’80, Bev Bryan Vernon ’77, Robin Christian Ryan ’70, Laura Spratley Birdsey ’96, Wallis Wickham Raemer ’66

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University of Georgia L to R: Phebe Jenkins ’14, Eliza Edlich ’13, Clay Coddington ’13

University of Virginia Alumnae at UVA joined Doug Bader, Diego Sanchez and the Alumnae office at the Biltmore in Charlottesville, Va.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill L to R; Seated: Ellie Wallace ’14, Margaret Luck ’14, Caroline Jones ’14 Standing: Katherine Hetzer ’08, Laura Spratley Birdsey ’96, Nelle Hotchkiss ’81, Laurie Hooker McCarthy ’87, Elizabeth Peters Aldridge ’87

D.C. with

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L to R: Tracy Overcash Brew ’84, Anne Douglas Freeman ’81, Sherrie Finney Scott ’84, Paige Conner Totaro ’85, Alice Kirby Taylor ’84

Washington and Lee University L to R: Emily Hardy ’11, Catherine Simpson ’14, Charlotte Sisk ’11, Hannah Powell ’14, Caroline Bones ’14, Ryan Hodgson ’14

Atlanta L to R: Elizabeth Buoyer ’09, Christie Jennison ’09, Terrie Scheckelhoff, Taylor Jones ’09

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By Judy Williams Carpenter Hawthorne '75

Several years ago as my parents downsized, a trove from their attic came to my basement to be dealt with “someday.” With a move of my own looming, I tackled hulking containers marked “memorabilia.” Sepia portraits, rickrack-edged black and white photos and brittle negatives; packets of letters bound up in ribbon; yellowed newspapers, scrapbooks, diaries and cards painstakingly hand made; and a fragile corsage from a 1930s dance transported me back in time and across generations of my family and St. Catherine’s School.

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Above: Miss Jennie at N. Laurel school location ca. 1906-1917 Right: Fanny Braxton Miller '07 (third from left) and schoolmates 1904

The Beginning My paternal grandmother Fanny Braxton Miller [Williams] was a member of the Virginia Randolph Ellett School’s class of 1907. In the uniform of the day, strawberry tresses piled high, she personifies sweetness and grit. Virginia Randolph Ellett’s vision for young women was to push the “silk ceiling” of the day, propelling them towards lives of intellectual vigor, curiosity, and purpose.

An educational renegade, with little more than sheer determination and her sharp mind, "Miss Jennie" shepherded her school through changes of venue, severe economic hardship, and shifts in leadership.

1920s & 1930s:

At the end of the streetcar line By the time my mother, Emory Gill [Williams] ’36, began first grade in the fall of 1923, Miss Jennie’s school had relocated for the fourth and final time to “the country.” The school’s location at the end of the streetcar line meant St. Catherine’s was literally and figuratively pushing the boundaries in the 1920s and 1930s. Having sold her school to the Episcopal Church in 1920, Miss Jennie handpicked, Louisa deBerniere Bacot, to head the School in 1924.

Succeeding Miss Emily Welch and Miss Rosalie Noland, Miss Bacot was the longest serving of Miss Jennie's headmistresses.

To the end of her life, Miss Jennie remained a major presence on campus.

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Above: The Bungalows ca. 1930

In Upper School, my mother’s dear friend Douglas Donnan [Herring] '36 was Gold Captain and mother’s partner in crime Lib Gregory [Gephart] '36 (giggling in class being their most egregious sin) was White Team Captain. Field hockey was a favorite activity, though mother enjoyed the rigorous curriculum, especially English. And, like any teenaged girl, she loved the dances! Eighty years ago, many of today’s traditions were observed, including St. Catherine’s Day, the dance around the Maypole, and the Daisy Chain. Just as today, there were healthy sports rivalries, boys were a happy distraction, and Junior-Senior banquet heralded the end of the school year.

My mother’s home was close to the school, and she recalls that my ordinarily mild-mannered grandmother chafed when students were sent to pick the daisies for graduation in the fields of Tempsford without asking, but was secretly pleased that “her” daisies played a role in such an important event.

1940s:

Bungalows & Miss Jennie’s House In 1929, 3-year-old Edmonia “Bebe” Woolfolk [Trice] ’42 and sister Viola ’39 came to live at St Catherine’s with their widowed mother, who had been hired as Miss Bacot’s secretary. Lodged first in the old Gym and then in the second story of the Lower School bungalows, they would visit Miss Jennie’s house, where a diminutive but intimidating Miss Jennie received them from her chair on the stage. After Miss Jennie’s death on April 9, 1939, the Woolfolk family lived in Miss Jennie’s house, to which Bebe returned after

Left: Bebe Woolfolk Trice '42 wedding party in Bacot Below: Cissy Klein [Peters] '55 in Miss Jennie's garden 1953

Above: The Underground Chapel 1935

“I cherish to this day the memories of the girls who boarded at the 1950s: A safe haven school, and of the housemothers St. Catherine’s became a refuge and lifeline for another family.

Cissy Klein [Peters] ’55 entered St. Catherine’s in sixth grade after who looked after us.” her mother learned that her Navy Captain husband was killed in Cissy Klein Peters ’55

graduating from Mount Holyoke College.

Chapel was a big part of life for boarders, who attended chapel every night. Bebe had taken music lessons from Miss Guigon; after graduating from Mount Holyoke and returning to St. Catherine’s, she was asked to play the harmonium. Located in the little dugout area in the center of the underground chapel, the organ faced the altar with four to five long benches behind and narrow benches along the curving brick walls. Bebe knew only five hymns, so the burning question of the day was which of the five would be played at each service.

Bebe’s husband-to-be would call on her at Miss Jennie’s house, and they sat (supervised, of course) on the very sofa that remained in the living room for decades. On a blistering June day, Bebe dressed for her wedding at Miss Jennie’s House before the school driver Percy transported her to St. Stephen’s. The receiving line for the reception in the Dining Hall snaked through Bacot and into the Arcade. Miss Jennie imparted her devotion to the principles on which St. Catherine’s was founded to Bebe and her sister Viola, who was the much beloved Head of St. Margaret's School from 1950-1989.

action. The family relocated at the urging of Cissy’s Richmond grandmother whose friend was the secretary to headmistress Susannah P. Turner. A Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II, Miss Turner offered Mrs. Klein a job as receptionist/switchboard operator as well as lodging in Miss Jennie’s house. Cissy and sister Kay Klein [Brigham] ’53 lived in the dorms, and brother Mike attended St. Christopher’s. “I remember my first night at Jeffrey Hall, lying in bed, a bit bewildered and missing my mother (who was just next door!). The most anticipated time was when, at night and in our pajamas, we would lie on the floor at the threshold of our rooms, and listen to stories read by the housemother.”

One Sunday in the Spring of 1953 when Cissy was a ninth grade boarder in Ellett, a fire broke out in the building’s attic. “The boarders had been bused to [Monroe Park], and when we returned my dorm was on fire. Unlike other boarders who were billeted at day students' homes, I only had to walk to Miss Jennie's to stay with mother. Having my mother and brother living on campus was very unique for the school, and special to me.

“My seven years at St. Catherine’s helped shape who I am today.

Not a day goes by that I am not reminded of the education received, my exposure to the spiritual, and my gratefulness for the opportunity given to my mother. My most vivid memories of my life are associated with St. Catherine’s. It was a sweet, safe, and uncomplicated time.”

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1960s:

The times they were a changin’ The 1960s were a time of turmoil and change, but St. Catherine’s remained a haven of progressive education, emerging stronger and better. What got Mary Jane Hipp [Brock] ’66 through life’s upheavals was the music she grew to love as a boarder during chapel hymn sings at St. Catherine’s. Liturgical music “resonates in me today…art, and especially music, can bridge differences and bring a warmth of community.” The power of music was a takeaway, as were the lifelong friendships forged through experiences good and bad. After the surreal news of JFK’s assassination was announced in the Dining Room, the students went to the lounges where the TVs were. It was a crushing time, and the comforting environment of St. Catherine’s was a gift.

Mary Jane had already had her share of crises.

When she was in ninth grade, her mother died.

Shortly thereafter Mary Jane came to St. Catherine's, following in L to R: Charlotte LaVerge West, Mary Bower Troland, Mary Jane Hipp Brock the footsteps of sister Betty, a boarder in the class of ’54. She thrived in the personal, nurturing environment she so needed. Susannah Turner was wise, caring, and an inspiration; a “listener and a leader” who watched out for Mary Jane with heart and sensitivity. It was Miss Turner who gently broke the news to Mary Jane that Betty had died of a cerebral hemorrhage in February during Mary Jane’s sophomore year; it was Susannah Turner who drove her to the airport for the funeral.

Mary Jane recalls a group of boarders wanting to attend a concert given by folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary in Richmond. Miss Turner was wary of sending girls downtown to hear a group whose music she did not know, but understood the group voiced the angst of the generation. She asked Mary Jane if she might listen to her Peter, Paul and Mary album — and decided they could go — one example of striking a balance between making sure the girls were safe and stifling their independence. Susannah Turner and Bob Trusdell, in whose first year Mary Jane served as President of Student Government, were fine people at a place that lent stability when life seemed unpredictable and uncertain.

By the time my sisters (Dabney ’61, Frances ’63, Melinda ’69, Susan ’73) and I attended St. Catherine’s, I’m not sure whether Miss Turner’s greatest challenge was the undercurrent of change or dealing with my father’s continuing dismay at the demise of the $25 “sibling discount” in tuition just before the second of his five daughters entered kindergarten.

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L to R: 1973 Graduation, Gussie Johns [Bannard] and Tiane Mitchell-[Gordon]

1970s:

Embracing opportunities The mother of Tiane Mitchell-[Gordon] ’73 once told her, “the best decision we ever made was to let you go to St. Catherine’s.”

Tiane came to St. Catherine’s grounded in faith and having been surrounded by people who were focused on the value of and joy in learning. When June Cornwall reached out to Tiane’s parents, saying, “we will take care of your daughter”, that was all her mother needed to hear, though Tiane says that “it helped that St. Catherine’s was a church school.” Years after the day when Tiane and classmate Cheryl Bass became the first African American students to carry the Daisy Chain, a light went on: “There were only two of us!” This speaks volumes about how the two were accepted and treated.

Her mother was so proud to see Tiane at the head of the Daisy Chain on graduation day. “I didn’t have the heart to tell her we were arranged in height order and I was the shortest in the class!”

Instead of feeling like an anomaly, she was thrilled at the opportunity for learning and growing that St. Catherine’s offered, and the sense of belonging. Tiane does not recall feeling apart, except for one incident in which the parents of a boarder friend with whom she was supposed to room intervened and kept it from happening.

When her mother learned of it, she advised Tiane not to dwell on the parent's reaction but to stay friends with the girl, and that was that.

Strong academic grounding was the defining aspect of Tiane’s time at St. Catherine’s. “I came out of St. Catherine’s very differently from my contemporaries at Wesleyan. The discipline of study, the structure of St. Catherine’s served me well during my freshman and sophomore years when classmates were trying to get a grasp on those skills. Some never did and fell by the wayside.”

Likewise, the strong emphasis on learning emanating from her parents drove her to learn: “You are there for school, to learn. Do not squander the opportunity that St. Catherine’s presents.” The rules and structure formed life habits.

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United as St. Catherine’s Girls ReRe Lawrence [Bernstein] ’87 remembers, “When I came to St. Catherine’s as a tenth grade boarder, to say I was a fish out of water would be an understatement. I was a year and a half younger than my classmates; I was nowhere near as economically privileged as most; and I had never even heard of this Episcopal religion, having been raised Baptist. And to add insult to injury, I was one of only two black females in my class, and I didn’t even get along with the other girl. Things were not looking good.”

Fortunately, says ReRe, first impressions can be deceiving.

Despite the differences, thanks to the preparation she had received in the Memphis Public Schools Optional (AKA Magnet) Program, ReRe was on more than equal footing. Her aptitude in and enthusiasm for the classroom, along with faculty who nurtured and encouraged her, made the differences fade away. “Every week in tenth grade English we would have a current affairs quiz. Looking back, I’m not really sure what this had to do with American Lit, but it was the highlight of the week. In the sports section, Mrs. Dale Bishop began inserting Memphis State University questions in with those about UNC and UVA, partially to appease my pouting, but also so I didn’t feel left out. It didn’t hurt that our basketball team was No. 3 in the country at that time either. This pulled my classmates into my world and gave me something to talk about with them. Turns out we were all struggling with something — homesickness, family issues, academic pressures, body/weight inadequacies, and generally feeling like we didn’t fit in...We were after all, teenage girls.”

St. Catherine’s, says ReRe, taught students “that what we had in common was greater than our differences but that our differences

Photos of ReRe Lawrence [Bernstein] ’87 with classmates

Centennial celebration 1990

1990s:

Celebrating the Centennial Laura Spratley [Birdsey] ’96 still clearly recalls the excitement on campus during the School’s Centennial. The school year was filled with special events and celebrations — even an aerial photo of the students forming a 100 on the Green.

But it is one specific event that resonates with Birdsey and her classmates. To mark the School’s 100th year, the students created a time capsule. It remains buried under the bricks in front of the Portico and will be opened in 2040 during the 150th celebration. Girls from each division shared items for the St. Catherine’s students of the future to educate them about the world they lived in at that time.

“My sixth grade class made a mix tape of popular songs of the day,” Laura said. “Luckily one faculty member had the foresight to also include a tape player so that the girls of the future could listen to the music.”

Now the Director of Alumnae Relations at St. Catherine’s with her own daughter attending kindergarten at the School, Laura walks by the buried time capsule every day. She often thinks about the day it will come out of the ground revealing the past to new generations of St. Catherine’s girls.

“I so look forward to opening that capsule in 2040 and rediscovering all of the items we deemed important in 1990,” Laura said.

“ We would all move on, separate,

take different paths, but the ties that ultimately bound us then still bind us today.” were what made us interesting.” St. Catherine’s girls are united by a world class education and undergirded by values expressed in the School Hymn, the Motto, the first stirring notes of "Jerusalem," the class ring, and other traditions. “We would all move on, separate, take different paths, but the ties that ultimately bound us then still bind us today.”

“I can see the big picture now — how our differences have led us to our current paths but the joy we have in hearing each other’s news and the fun we have when reuniting shows that we are, and will always be, united as St. Catherine’s girls.”

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Judy Carpenter Hawthorne '75 with daughter Melinda Carpenter ’08 and mother Emory Gill [Williams] ’36 at Melinda's graduation

The second century One hundred and one years after her great-grandmother received her diploma from Miss Jennie, my daughter Melinda Carpenter ’08 carried daisies on a beautiful summer day to the tune of the "Barcarole" wafting on the breeze and Miss Jennie’s beloved "Jerusalem" being sung. Tearful hugs were exchanged between girls who had been classmates for as many as 14 years. St. Catherine’s too was bidding a sad goodbye to one of our most proud and beloved traditions. In 2008 the final four boarding students walked up the Green to the Portico and joined the ranks of St. Catherine’s alumnae all over the world. Competition from day schools that began springing up in feeder markets in the 1970s and from coed boarding institutions, along with a distressed economy, contributed to the steady dwindling of resident students, despite intense efforts to recruit and retain boarders. The loss of boarding was mourned by day and boarding alumnae, who recognized the diversity and breadth of experience that boarding students brought to the campus. In my mother’s day as in my time, boarders added a wider perspective of the world and a joyful sisterhood with people from different backgrounds. The difficult decision to phase out such an integral part of St. Catherine’s was reached after much careful debate. Thankfully the loyalty of the boarders has helped to ameliorate the loss. Nancy Conkle Swann ’62 speaks for many boarders when she says, “It’s not about where I laid my head — it’s about what I took away with me.”

Today, St. Catherine’s is blessed with students representing more than 50 zip codes as well as diverse socio-economic and religious backgrounds, and with the continuing involvement and loyalty of more than 5,000 boarding and day alumnae worldwide.

We can thank Virginia Randolph Ellett for a vision so strong that it has endured privations of war, economic collapse, and social changes that would have been unfathomable 125 years ago. Her school, in this historic year, embraces the future just as Miss Jennie herself rejoiced in “more beyond.”

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As St. Catherine’s celebrates 125 years of educating girls, we want to showcase your favorite memories. Calling all students, alumnae, faculty, staff, leaders and parents — grab that box of memorabilia, the Quair and your classmates and start recalling your STC days! We want to hear about life on campus, boarders' stories, graduation memories, your favorite grade or project and tales of teachers.

How to Submit Memories Go to stc125.org/memories to share your St. Catherine’s memories with us.

You can share your stories in a variety of formats: a story with a photo, just a story, just a photo, a quick memory (1 or 2 sentences), a photo gallery (no text or caption needed), or a brief video testimonial.

If you prefer not to submit your information online, we have options for you.

You may email alumnae@st.catherines.org, mail your stories to St. Catherine’s School, Attn. Laura Birdsey, Director of Alumnae Relations, 6001 Grove Ave. Richmond, VA 23226 or drop them off at the Development office, now located at 5604 Cary Street Rd. And don’t forget to share your photos and videos on social media by using the hashtag #STC125.

Find this Interview by John Morgan, St. Catherine's English Teacher and St. Christopher's Alum '94 and other memories at www.stc125.org/memories.

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National Achievement Outstanding Participant National Merit Finalists

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Commended Students

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prestigious Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards won by seniors

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AP Scholars

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Cum Laude Inductees

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state titles and

LIS titles won by the Class of 2015 during their careers as Saints athletes

10,000+ hours of community service during the Class of 2015's Upper School experience

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CLASS

Front Row: Katherine Sayre Nicholson, Ann Margaret Nicholson, Maya Quinn Jackson, Elizabeth Cooper Warner, Grace Cabell Jennings, Valerie Camille Ludwig, Mariah Rowe Merhige, Elizabeth Baugh Vozenilek, Olivia Rose Reid, Lily Bromley Gray, Emily Cutchins Mauck, Caroline Austin Freeman Smithers, Ella Elizabeth Southall, Kelly Ann Fresco, Elizabeth Kiger Graumlich, Isabelle Lauren Stevens Bersano, Elise Morgan Fuller, Jacqueline Marie Martel; Second Row: Laura Mitchell Valentine, Susanna Marshall Reid, Leeds Lawson McVey, Lily Mead Damgard, Annie Terrell Williams, Cecilia Young Stone, Kristina Kent Dickey, Emma Claire Williams, Katherine Brooks Custer, Grayson Cameron Sprinkle, Caroline Parker Williams, Bentley Louise Logue, Margaret Katherine Long, Colleen Reardon Gregory, Rachel Jane Bader

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Third Row: Briana Rakee Scripture, Elizabeth Carter McGraw, Margaret Kemper Young, Mary Ella de Venoge, Sunni Li O’Brien, Keeilah Lorel Moseley, Virginia Hutchins Hamilton, Madeline Powell Miller, Townley Elizabeth Neal, Sidney Michelle Glasco, Mary Kathryn Crook, Emma Marguerite Rhodes, Jocelyn Price Wickersham, Carol Louise Dickinson; Fourth Row: Katherine Jacqueline Lambrechts, Elizabeth Perkins Parrish, Haley Corinne Tucker, Charlotte Marguerite Cross, Ashly Noelle Adkins, Emma Gabel Loderick, Madison Rose Guare, Adrienne-Nicole Oghenekevwe Oluwantoyin Aganbi, Alexandra Logan Daniel; Top Row: Erin Elizabeth Winchester, Madalyn Casey Arles, Brianna Nicole Miller, Olivia Lucia Vivadelli, Sarah Catherine Woodmansee, Sara Grace Rebman, Faith Elizabeth Walker Mickens, Anne Elizabeth O’Hagan, Kathryn Taylor Gurley, Zoë Rose Huling; Not pictured: Relia Aytyl Robinson

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Legacies L to R; Front Row: Emily Mauck (granddaughter of Roberta Cutchins Ames '50), Lily Damgard (daughter of Lucy Siewers Damgard '85) , Luly Dickinson (daughter of Carol Wingo Dickinson '74), Townley Neal (daughter of Beth Tompkins Neal '84), Celia Stone (daughter of Dorothy Young '71), Ella de Venoge (daughter of Amy Bice de Venoge '87), Katherine Custer (daughter of Laura Waddell Custer '83, granddaughter of Katherine Brooks Waddell '56), Lily Gray (granddaughter of Louise Lewis Foster '59) , BB Vozenilek (daughter of Betty Baugh Harrison '77), Susanna Reid (granddaughter of Mary Denny Scott Wray '57), Austin Smithers (daughter of Nancyellen Keane Smithers '74), Grace Jennings (daughter of Elizabeth Cabell Jennings '81), Maddie Miller (granddaughter of Sally Yeatts Taylor '58), Taylor Gurley (daughter of Kathryn Lamon Gurley '82), Kemper Young (granddaughter of Janice Lane Young '49)

Back Row: Lucy Siewers Damgard '85 (mother of Lily Damgard), Carol Wingo Dickinson '74 (mother of Luly Dickinson), Beth Tompkins Neal '84 (mother of Townley Neal), Dorothy Young '71 (mother of Celia Stone), Amy Bice de Venoge '87 (mother of Ella de Venoge), Katherine Brooks Waddell '56 (grandmother of Katherine Custer), Laura Waddell Custer Janice Lane Young '49 & granddaughter Kemper Young '83 (mother of Katherine Custer), Louise Lewis Foster '59 (grandmother of Lily Gray), Betty Baugh Harrison '77 (mother of BB Vozenilek), Mary Denny Scott Wray '57 (grandmother of Susanna Reid), Nancyellen Keane Smithers '74 (mother of Austin Smithers), Elizabeth Cabell Jennings '81 (mother of Grace Jennings), Sally Yeatts Taylor '58 (grandmother of Maddie Miller)

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L to R; Front Row: Mariah Merhige BB Vozenilik Liza McGraw Libby Warner Austin Smithers Ella Beth Southall Second Row: Laura Valentine Luly Dickinson Lily Damgard Maddie Miller Caroline Williams Townley Neal

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L to R; Front Row: Grayson Sprinkle, Kemper Young, Rachel Bader, Katherine Custer, Susanna Reid, Emily Mauck, Haley Tucker, Elise Fuller Second Row: Maya Jackson, Emma Clare Williams, Ella de Venoge, Libby Parrish, Terrell Williams, Grace Jennings, Mary Kate Crook, Madison Guare Third Row: Lawson McVey, Emma Loderick, Erin Winchester, Celia Stone, Charlotte Cross, Kristina Dickey, Bentley Logue, Sidney Glasco

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L to R; Front Row, Past June Scholars: Maria Sison '14 Lindsay Stone '09 Kaylin Blount '12 Ann Nicholson, June Scholar '15 Erin Winchester, June Queen '15 Annabel O'Hagan, June Scholar '15 Rosemary O'Hagan '13 Betty Baugh Harrison '77

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Back Row, Past June Queens: Ida Valentine Farinholt '80 Susan Mahoney Crook '05 Jean Hill Davenport '58 Marshall Moore '12 Alex McEachin '13 Julia Warren '14 Annabel Morgan Edge '64 Carroll Blair Keiger '72 Martha Beddinger Holt '75

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College Choices Class of

2015 American University

L to R; Seated: Libby Parrish (Wake Forest, cross country and track) and Caroline Williams (UNC-Wilmington, swimming); Standing: Virginia Hamilton (Denison, field hockey and lacrosse); Mady Arles (Emory, volleyball); Haley Tucker (Washington and Lee, field hockey and lacrosse); Bri Miller (William & Mary, Track & Field); Libbie Warner (Hamilton, golf)

Auburn University Boston College Boston University College of William & Mary Columbia University Denison University Elon University Emory University Emory University, Oxford College Flagler College Hamilton College Harvard University James Madison University Loyola University Chicago Mount St. Mary’s University North Carolina State University Randolph-Macon College Southern Methodist University St. John’s University The University of Alabama The University of Georgia

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L to R; Front Row: Maya Jackson (VCU), Ashly Adkins (Mary Washington), Grace Jennings (SMU) and Tina Dickey (VCU); Back Row: Bentley Logue (Auburn), Ella Beth Southall (South Carolina), Kitty Lambrechts (Washington and Lee), Annabel O'Hagan (Harvard)

University of Mary Washington The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Wilmington University of South Carolina University of St. Andrews University of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University Wake Forest University Washington and Lee University Yale University

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Scholarship Spotlights Each year St. Catherine’s seniors receive scholarships for a variety of reasons including academics, athletics, arts, community service and need-based from various colleges, universities and civic organizations. Typically the total for the class exceeds $2 million over their four-year college career. All scholarships are self-reported by the seniors to the College Counseling office.

Taylor Gurley

Charlotte Cross

Grace Jennings

Taylor Gurley will attend Mt. St. Mary’s on a Le Puy founder's scholarship, which covers full academic tuition for all four years of college. Gurley plans to major in film.

“Receiving this scholarship is beyond all my wildest dreams about college. It has always been my dream since I was 12 to go to college in California and the fact that my long time dream is coming true is surreal.”

Charlotte Cross will attend Hamilton College with a Hamilton College Scholarship as a pre-med major. Her scholarship covers $51,845 of the out of the $64,570 tuition cost.

“Hamilton doesn't have any core curriculum, but rather a required number of credits to graduate. Although I plan on following the pre-med track. I don't have to be worried that I haven't picked out a major yet."

Grace Jennings will attend Southern Methodist University with a Cornerstone scholarship for academics ($11,000 per year), an artistic scholarship ($8,000), and a one-time travel grant for studying abroad ($1,500). As a voice major, Jennings hopes to pursue Music Education as a future career.

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The Arcade Society Members at Reunion

2015 Reunion Weekend

St. Catherine’s welcomed 400 alumnae to campus for a fun-filled Reunion Weekend and to kick off the School’s 125th celebration

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2015 St. Catherine’s Distinguished Alumna Award

This award is given to an alumna who has made her city, state or world a better place in the spirit of the School Motto: “What we keep we lose; only what we give remains our own.” Two recipients in 2015.

Excerpts taken from award presentations during Reunion Weekend

Venerable Archdeacon Margaret “Mimsy” Wood Jones ’55 Mimsy, a boarder from Knoxville, Tennessee, was the class of 1955's St. Catherine’s representative, an honor signifying her sincerity as a person, attainment as a scholar, and faith which informed every aspect of her life. This recognition was just the beginning of her life of faith and service.

Mimsy graduated from Hollins College, married and raised two children in Memphis, Tennessee, where she was very active in her community and her church. She served as president of the Junior League of Memphis in 1975-76. She also owned a local community bookstore, "The Book Shelf."

Mimsy's real passion is for outreach ministry, serving many organizations including the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis; the Downtown Memphis Ministries, Inc., a homeless outreach ministry which she helped found in 1986; Memphis Arts Festival; and Calvary Place, a downtown childcare center advocating help for workers who need affordable daycare and quality early childhood education.

After running her bookstore, Mimsy began a pursuit of religious studies at the Memphis Theological Seminary and was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1995. A good friend of Mimsy writes, "Mimsy's heart for urban outreach and her strong Christian faith led her to answer the call from God to share the love of Christ with the world. She has chosen to speak out for injustice, for people whose voices have been ignored. She speaks softly, but says what needs to be said and never shrinks from a confrontation, always willing to speak up when others might not."

In the Spring of 2011, Mimsy was elevated by the Bishop of the Diocese of West Tennessee to the position of Archdeacon and carries the title of "the Venerable Archdeacon Mimsy Jones." Despite such a distinguished title, Mimsy maintains her humility and sense of humor while being a mentor for others.

In recent years she has concentrated on the interior life, and believes deeply in the value of silence and stillness. She frequently leads women's retreats and was instrumental in forming St. Clare Retreats, which offers a silent respite for women.

If ever there was an individual who practices "what we keep we lose; only what we give remains our own", it is Margaret "Mimsy" Jones, Class of 1955.

Honorable Anne “Panny” Gregory Rhodes ’60 One of the Distinguished Alumna Awards was given to Honorable Anne Gregory Rhodes, better known as “Panny.” A two-year boarding student from North Carolina, Panny graduated from St. Catherine’s in 1960 and from Duke University in 1964 as an Angier B. Duke Scholar.

Panny is best known as the representative of the 68th District, which includes Richmond, in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1991-2001. During these years she sought ways to strengthen the public school system, make health care more accessible, and practice responsible tax reform. Prior to her years in the Legislature she was an Associate Engineer in the Nuclear Division of the Martin Company, and worked as a high school math teacher in both public and private schools.

Panny has a long history of community service. She served as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Community Foundation, Chair of the Metropolitan Business Foundation, and Chair of the United Way Services Board. She has also served on the boards of Richmond Sportsbackers, Richmond Eye and Ear Hospital, Prevention of Child Abuse, Leadership Metro Richmond, Elk Hill Farm, the Greater Richmond American Red Cross, the YMCA of Greater Richmond, the Girl Scout Council,

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In 1996, the YMCA selected her as an “Outstanding Woman in Richmond.” In 1998 the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy named her Legislator of the Year. Panny was appointed to the VCU Board of Visitors in 2003 by Governor Mark Warner and reappointed to a second term in 2007 by Governor Tim Kaine, at which point she was named Rector.

In July 2009, she served as Secretary and Director of the VCU Health System Authority and was Founding Trustee of the VCU School of Engineering Foundation.

Panny is an outstanding graduate of St. Catherine’s, and she serves as a role model to our current students and to all of us. She is passionate about math and science, and has been extremely successful in both the public and private sector. With her impressive intellect, determined leadership, and passion for public service, Panny has made St. Catherine’s proud and has touched countless lives in her city, state, and beyond.

Adelaide Rawles Flippen ’30 Outstanding Service Award

This award is given annually to a member of the St. Catherine's family who has distinguished herself/ himself through outstanding service to the School.

Lucy Stockdell Lucy Stockdell came to St. Catherine’s in 1964. Over the course of the next three decades she left an indelible mark on St. Catherine’s girls and on the School itself.

Lucy introduced the Angel Dance at St. Stephen’s in which barefoot girls danced all around the church in tribute to the Christmas season. She took students off campus for performances, dance lectures, demonstrations, and concerts at the University of Richmond and the VMFA. Lucy also worked with Joe Knox, choreographing Ampersand musicals. She steadily built the Performing Arts Department program.

In 1973 dance moved to the upper floor of the McVey Theatre.

Senior Joni Rodman ’73, one of Lucy’s most accomplished students, died tragically that same year. After a Memorial Dance Concert that spring, Lucy formed the original Upper School dance troupe, Joni. The program grew to such popularity that in 1989, Lucy formed a Lower School performance group, La Petite Joni, followed by the Just Joni Middle School dance group in 1991.

Lucy initiated in January 1977 the first Dance Invitational, a widely recognized annual showcase for college and professional dance troupes from the region, to raise seed money for the formation of Cat’s CAP (St. Catherine’s Creative Arts Program).

This event brought both college and ballet companies to McVey Theatre in two concerts that first year. Each company performed at its own expense with all proceeds accruing for the benefit of St.

Catherine’s. In 1978 under Lucy’s direction the summer program Cat's CAP began. This summer program, now known as Brilliant Summer, has grown to more than 1485 students in 2014.

Lucy’s pure love of dance, and of the students she taught, cannot be overstated.

Holly David ’78 recalls, “Lucy made significant contributions to my life… as a dance teacher and unofficial guidance counselor…

There was no end to the projects she would find for us. Not only did she teach us to choreograph, dance and perform, she taught us to sew our own costumes on her dining room table. I was able to meet so many dancers through Lucy and the Dance Invitational program that my horizons were broadened way beyond the St. Catherine’s campus.”

Lucy’s influence and vision remain as strong as ever at St. Catherine’s more than 20 years after her retirement. In appreciation for her contributions to the Performing Arts, the School dedicated a stain glass window in the chapel in her honor. She left our School with her Angel Dances, a superb creative arts department, and a vibrant summer program. Perhaps her most lasting legacy of all is the hundreds of girls that dance joyfully each year in all of the Joni Rodman Groups.

St. Catherine's Awards From suffragettes, dramatists, artists and writers to preservationists, ministers, lawyers, doctors and entrepreneurs, St. Catherine’s alumnae demonstrate integrity, strength and excellence.

The Distinguished Alumna Award was established by the Ellett-St. Catherine’s National Alumnae Board in 1969 and honors an alumna who has distinguished herself in her field, either as a professional or as a community volunteer.

Two plaques in Miss Jennie’s display the names and classes of all the Distinguished Alumna Award recipients.

The Ellett Board also presents an award in recognition of our alumnae, teachers, parents and friends who showcase their love for St. Catherine’s

on a daily basis. The recipient of the Adelaide Rawles Flippen ’30 Outstanding Service Award will have spent a great deal of productive time, energy and thought in helping the School on a particular project or will have demonstrated continuing dedication to St. Catherine's over many years. The presentation of the award, established in 1994, traditionally takes place at graduation, but may also happen during Reunion Weekend as it did this year.

Nomination Process Anyone can nominate an alumna for the Distinguished Alumna Award or an individual for the Adelaide Rawles Flippen ’30 Outstanding Service Award.

To make a nomination for the Distinguished Alumna Award, please send the following information to Laura Birdsey '96 at lbirdsey@st.catherines.org: candidate's full name, year of graduation and details on how the candidate distinguished herself in her professional field and/or in service to her community and how those accomplishments are in keeping with the School Motto.

To nominate an individual for the Adelaide Rawles Flippen ’30 Outstanding Service Award, please send the following information to Laura Birdsey '96 at lbirdsey@st.catherines.org: candidate’s full name, capacity in which she or he served the School and additional names of people to support the nomination.

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Karrie Burnham Southall ’94 President of the Richmond Alumnae Board

The celebration of St. Catherine’s 125th anniversary began during this year’s Reunion Weekend. This was my 10th year serving on the St. Catherine’s Richmond Alumnae Board and last year serving as President of the board. One of the wonderful things about being a member of this active board is volunteering each year at Reunion Weekend.

Instead of coming back to the School every five years to celebrate with my classmates, I get to come every year and catch up with each and every reunion class, not just those classes that coincide with my five year schedule. It is so inspiring to hear how successful and talented our alumnae have become. This year I had the pleasure of hearing Katie Boykin Harbin ’05 give the homily during chapel, and what an amazing

job she did! I am not one to tear up during a chapel service, but this was one where Katie had me both laughing and crying, often simultaneously. In a cute southern accent, Katie talked about her experience as a chaplain for the Pediatric and Neonatal ICUs and then as a hospice chaplain, two jobs she swore she would never take. As I listened to Katie speak I was reminded of my friends that have been taken away from their families because of cancer or a host of other illnesses. As I get older and hear of high school and college classmates dying in their twenties, thirties and forties it makes me pause and appreciate all that I have in life. We often have the tendency to sweat the little things and when you take a moment to put it all in perspective, you realize that having a healthy family to spend time with is more important than anything else in life. So instead of worrying about the things in life that you cannot control, appreciate that which you can. I will end with a quote from Katie that I often recite to myself and others, “If you are breathing at this moment, then today is your day.”

Richmond Chapter

L to R; Row 1: Leigh Bladergroen Glatt ’00, Ibbie Hedrick ’00, Karrie Burnham Southall ’94, Evan Garrison ’01, Carrie Featherstone Hoge ’93, Lindsay Bowen Adamson ’93, Amy Bice deVenoge ’97; Row 2: Molly Trice ’99, Katherine Madden Guise ’97, Sarah Tune Price ’95, Kathleen Will Mackey ’78; Row 3: Ann Tripp Carlson ’04, Sara Chapman Waechter ’97, Kira Siddall ’98, Christy Arnheim Feiler ’88; Row 4: Marlee Crossen ’08, Rendall Harris ’96, Austin Lane Kane ’96, Beth Irby Beale ’76, Alice Gold Sharp ’91, Abbey Lyerly Moring ’90

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Bebe Woolfolk Trice, 506 Tuckahoe Blvd., Richmond, VA 23226; bebetrice@comcast.net

Corbin Crafford Hume remembers being in second grade all the way through to senior year with Bebe Woolfolk Trice. “Also, I’m so glad to read that St. Catherine’s is staying on top of this whole new world and providing skills.” Bette Lea Norton Bowden spends her time playing bridge and traveling. “I am 91 and my friends are lovely to me.”

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Turning 90 this year, Helen Morrison Soutter has four great grandchildren to celebrate with her.

Archer Christian Burke writes, “I’m still alive!”

Barbara Bates Guinee and husband Jack enjoy living in a retirement community. “We love our view of the Chesapeake Bay and the Bay Bridge.

We have made a lot of friends and especially enjoy nightly views of the Bay at dinner time.”

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quality control for her daughters’ business “3 Sisters Cheese Straws.” She states it is fun and doing very well. We send condolences to Closey Faulkner Dickey who has lost two sons and her husband recently. She has a daughter living in Alaska. Marguerite Rucker Ellett lives at Westminster Canterbury and is “as good as can be” - aren’t we all! Margaret Teter Herrmann lives in a townhouse and gets help from her daughter when she needs it. She has three grandsons; one lives in England and another lives on Ocracoke Island. Ysabel Brown Dulken lives on her 33 acre farm Greylogs and has three children and five grandchildren. All the snow kept Hilda Lewis Williams from bridge! She has a granddaughter who recently graduated from UVA, a grandson attending UVA and a granddaughter going to Meredith College in the fall. I spoke to Mary Burton Haskell McKenzie’s daughter. She reports that Mary Burton is in good health living in Atlanta. I am having a hard time contacting you classmates!

It seems that cell phones have taken over the world. I realize some of us have moved to retirement, but if so, please call or email (see my contact information above).

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Barbara Evans Davis, 11905 West Briarpatch, Midlothian, VA 23113; (804) 794-7733; dbabs3608@verizon.net

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Anne Jergens Stoutemire spends a lot of time pulling weeds, and still loves the mountains and the people in Brevard, N.C. Maria Carter Satterfield reported from the Bahamas. Alice Taylor Spilman is living at Cedarfield Retirement Community and is in charge of packing and

Joan Simpson Jones wrote in about her grandson’s wedding in Charleston, S.C.: “I will be there with my two daughters, two son-in-laws, and granddaughter who will be in the wedding at St. Luke’s Chapel." Betty Bowe Wallace Hendrix enjoys living in a beautiful retirement community

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in Austin, Texas. Her second great grandson turned 1 in April and one of her granddaughters married in May.

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Susan Gravely Wingfield, 556 Lady Slipper Ln., Lynchburg, VA 24502; gunnygose@gmail.com Polly Plumb deButts remains very busy conducting tours in the Arlington area for senior citizens and students from all over the U.S. She has just published a book about her son John’s struggle with mental illness titled “Brain Gone Wild.” The book was 30 years in the making and perhaps she will not write another. Polly, do not give up on yourself, you may still have a lot to say to our generation. Polly’s granddaughter was recently married. Husband John still has a few legal clients but most enjoys playing the piano in various venues. I find that all of you remain as active as possible, such as Anne Woods Garland, who is still playing tennis. As for me, your class correspondent, I still try to maintain a vegetable garden and some shrubs, flowers and trees. I still walk often with my two little white dogs and exercise upstairs in my so-called “Play Room.” I am thankful that my home remains a stopping off place for the Church and I thoroughly enjoy having church members come anytime they can. All of you are also welcome anytime. Do drop by if you happen to be in the Lynchburg area. I would love to hear more from each of you (see my new email address above) but I know how difficult it is to take time to write. Take good care of yourselves and

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“have settled in very happily at Westminster Canterbury in Richmond. We’ve found a number of friends already here, and we all recommend it to everyone!” Virginia Dance Terrell has also moved to Westminster Canterbury. Thank you to all who came back to campus for Reunion in April.

It was a lovely weekend to be at St. Catherine’s.

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L to R; Bottom Row: Beth Hutson Turnburke, Joan Parker Dilworth, Jane Mathias Noland, Margie Morris Powell, Mary Southall Lane; Top Row: Camilla Hyde Moffatt, Polly Scott Cardozo, Ann Reeves Reed, Peggy Johnson Lee, Joan Dunbar O’Connor, Barbara Blades Burrows

remember our next reunion is in 2018. If I have done my math properly, that would be number 70.

We will be approximately 88 years old. May we keep on keeping on and God bless us every one.

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Peggy Wood Doss, 112 Wynnwood Dr., Wilmington, DE 19810; Jane Cecil, 1600 Westbrook Ave., Apt. 404, Richmond, VA 23227

Many of us are interested in our grandchildren’s choices now. There is a trend among UVA graduates to try life in New York City for awhile. Anna Nolde McKenney’s grandson Henry (son of Helen McKenney Ilnicky ’80) has a job with PricewaterhouseCoopers in NYC. Molly Toms Fitzgerald’s grandson Beau Brown (son of Betsy Fitzgerald Brown’75)is off to join UVA friends in NYC for a few years. He will continue working in advertising while staying with Molly; granddaughter Catherine lives and teaches in Charlottesville.

Catherine’s first child will make Molly a great grandmother, but Molly thinks we’re “too young” to become “greats.” Mary Beth Muhleman Chichester and D.O. have grandchildren ranging from age 9 years old to out-of-college. Mary Beth’s daughter Molly Chichester Welch ’77 now has her first grandchild, making Mary Beth a “great.” Some classmates are pursuing artistic vocations. Eda Williams Martin lives in an active retirement community in Williamsburg and has begun a painting class with a local artist (Eda was always very creative). She discovered New Orleans while visiting her grandson, who works in a Cajun restaurant. Ann Brooke Power Mason also is an artist. She’s been taking painting lessons over the years at the Providence Art Club in

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Providence, R.I. She works in watercolor choosing landscapes and buildings as her subjects. Ann still lives in her same lovely home with her two daughters nearby in Boston and N.Y.C. Always thankful for her years at St. C, Anne Baird Chatoney is happily living in a retirement home and making new friends. Your class correspondent Peggy Wood Doss’ news is about grandchildren. The oldest and his wife moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore. He is a Civil Engineer and his wife oversees the northwest for IBM. They are hoping to buy a 1920s house - their first. The other grandchild, Heather Briggs, teaches high school physics in New Jersey.

Kudos to those of you who responded with news felt good to be in touch. Jane will contact you next for news. A happy summer to all.

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Ann Reeves Reed, 8603 River Rd., Richmond, VA 23229; 207arr@gmail.com Sadly we have learned of the loss of two classmates.

We send condolences to the families of Sidney Erwin Daniels who passed away October 21, 2014, and of Cynthia Anne Billings who passed away March 18, 2015 after a battle with lung cancer. We also send condolences to classmates Catherine Marks Freeman, whose husband Jere Freeman passed away this past year, and Barbara Blades Burrows whose husband Hal Burrows also passed away. Louise Kegley heard from Anne Robertson Heard for the first time since 1958. In her 2014 Christmas card Anne mentioned she and her husband John spend winter in Arlington, Texas.

Meanwhile Louise spent her birthday at The Homestead. Margaret Compton Bam is still working as a travel agent and is now a great grandmother. Dick and Joan Parker Dilworth

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Martha Erwin Uzzle is happily settled at the Forest at Duke. “Many friends here and have met and made many new friends. Know it’s the best move I could make. One of my dearest friends at St. C was Theda Ball Tankersley and her daughter named Theda stopped by to visit with me en route to visit St. C. Loved seeing her again. Life is good, but I fall a lot. Love attending Duke basketball games! My cookbook Southern Delights has been a good seller and contact for me. Blessings to my classmates!” Martha Munson Pollard has written a book about her own experiences with grief entitled “Love and Loss.”

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Jane Southall Bowles, 2 North 5th St., Richmond, VA 23219; jane.m.s.bowles@gmail.com

Vienna Cobb Anderson writes “I am currently in the middle of the process of moving into Westminster Canterbury. I can remember my mother saying, at age 92, ‘I don’t want to go live with those old folks.’ Like her I wasn’t too thrilled about the move; however I had set myself some benchmarks and knew the time had come. I knew that I needed a community. I decided that before I turned 80, when my health got more wobbly, and when I was tired of home maintenance, I would move. I hit those benchmarks this year, so here I am. In order to make myself look forward with anticipation to the change, I decided to make the apartment so gorgeous, I couldn’t wait to get into it. It worked! Downsizing and leaving a fabulous neighborhood was hard. However, letting things go and making cherished possessions available for others to enjoy is good preparation for the end of one’s life. I will be able to find everything in another month. I’m enjoying reconnecting with friends I haven’t seen for years. I am not missing climbing stairs; my new home is as comfortable and beautiful as I had hoped it would be and I’m enjoying it fully. Come to see me. I managed to keep the same phone number I’ve had all my life.

Blessings to all who are going through similar stresses at this time of our lives. May your ‘adventure’ be as rewarding as mine.” Kenny Darling Garbee writes “Sandy (my erstwhile housekeeper

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from Palm Beach) and I are flying off to Columbia, South America for a week with my old Florida church group. Sandy speaks Spanish. The Bishop of Columbia speaks Italian in addition to Spanish, so Sandy and I will be in fat city. (I can still limp along in Italian). Athens, Ga. is still wonderful. I do travel a lot between children in California and in Virginia. All of us are going to Africa in July — to Botswana, Zimbabwe, Johannesburg and Capetown. Lots of game drives, chances to ‘bond’ with villagers (not a touristy thing) in small remote places. Africa is a cathedral unto itself, and as all four grandchildren are animal lovers and ‘tree huggers’ the excursion is right up their respective alleys. That is all the news that is fit to print. I am quite fit and have a stable full of gentleman callers from the safe pinnacle of my eightieth year.” Josephine Jackson Miller is still driving during the day, enjoys her church work and having lunch with friends. Dorothy Parker Hale, Nancy Brogden Booker and I, your class correspondent, had lunch and enjoyed reminiscing.

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Several alumnae from the class of ’54 attended the St. Catherine’s Advent Carol Service in December. Mary Johnson Campbell, Cynthia Childrey Tucker, Tibby Moore Gardner, Pamela Gibson Farrar and Anne Harrell Bristow attended the tea at Dr. Scheckelhoff ’s following the service.

“What joy and beauty the service brings,” writes Mary. “It fills us with holiness and prayerful reflection for the season ahead.” Alice Parsons Sawyer, M.D. is living in a retirement center in Venice, Fla. In 2014 Betsy Nelson Wing published a novel, “Now History,” set mostly in Richmond during World War II. Visit Betsy’s web site, betsywing. com, for synopses of her novels and to view samples of her artwork. Cornelia Long Matson writes in, “We sold our vineyard in France to a Chinese company and now spend the summer at Hound Ears Club near Blowing Rock, N.C. We had a family reunion with 21 attendees, including my daughter Julia Kaminski Trampe ’78!”

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Caro Short Beebe, 3115 Stony Point Road, Unit B, Richmond, VA 23235; jbeebejr@aol.com

Last summer John and Ione Coker Lee along with Chris and Betsy Moncure Bredrup enjoyed a wonderful trip to London, Oxford and Wales. The trip continued Ione and Betsy’s tradition of visiting British universities together which started with attending University of London in 1958! We were sad to hear that Florence Pittman Hays’ husband of 60 years, Andrew Jackson Hays, passed away in May 2014. Florence, an artist and avid bridge player, has two sons and two grandchildren, one

L to R; Bottom Row: Betty Broaddus Cox, Weezie Daniel Owen, Susan Taylor Montague-Reese, Mary Mattingly Walker; Middle Row: Mimsy Wood Jones, Susan King French, Lizora Miller Yonce, Penny Baldwin Williams; Top Row: Martha Luck Robertson, Meriwether Tannahill Beatty, Lou Elam Johnson, Mary Blair Scott Valentine, Patricia Coxe Ware, Lucy Davenport Wallace

boy and one girl. It was wonderful to see so many classmates who came to celebrate our reunion and the kickoff of the 125th anniversary celebration in April. Congratulations to Mimsy Wood Jones who was one of the recipients of this year’s Distinguished Alumna Awards. Penny Williams Baldwin spoke to the Upper School students during Career Day on Friday. EDITOR'S NOTE: A special thank you to your correspondent, Caro Short Beebe, for hosting the class party at her home.

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Penny deBordenave Saffer, 1500 Westbrook Ct., #3131, Richmond, VA 23227; Penelope1845@gmail.com

We were sad to hear that Judy Dickerson Bullock’s husband Bill died after a long illness, and our sympathies also go to the family of Betty Reed Belden who has died. Clare Horsley Stewart travelled to Chile with ten kids and grandkids during the Christmas holidays to see her older daughter and family who live in Santiago. “Loved the whole country!” She doesn’t mind her age, but can’t believe how old her daughters are and that a granddaughter is looking at colleges! Where did the time go?? Clare is thankful every day that we were the kids of the 50’s and 60’s – so much fun to remember! Isabel Ware Burch wrote from Captiva Island where she went Ultra Extreme parasailing — at our age! — and saw beautiful views of the island from 1000 feet up in the air. She is heading a year-long celebration of the church building at Bruton Parish in Williamsburg,Va., which will include interesting lectures, concerts and visits by

the Bishop of London, his wife, the Presiding Bishop and others. Wickie Brown Plant and Mac had a wonderful trip to Cuba, just ahead of the first steps to normalize relations. “It’s a beautiful historic island with much art and architectural treasures and so little money. The natural world is also lovely….no pesticides or fertilizers and the bee population there is totally healthy!” Susie Totten Peters was appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources, where Susie worked as historian and editor from 1968 to 2002. Her son, Ross Peters, was named Head of St. George’s Independent School in Memphis, Tenn. Suzanne Zoppa Taylor’s oldest grandson, Kurt Taylor, has started a business called NextGlass, a smartphone app that helps choose a wine or beer that matches your taste preference. Kurt has been on several national TV programs and was named to the 2015 Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30: Food and Wine list.

Amanda Tevepaugh Macaulay has been busy waterproofing and reconstructing her basement so that she might host our 60th reunion Sunday brunch in 2016! [Ed. Note – I think she is kidding about the locale, but mark your calendars — it’s just a year away!] She plans to attend her 55th reunion at Wheaton College and feels sorry for those planning what will be their last reunion at Sweet Briar College. Helen Scott Townsend Reed is delighted to still be working... “study trips to East Germany, Sicily and Poland, always interesting people, history, art and architecture as long as the feet, eyes and brain function!” As of this writing Mimsy Brenaman was about to leave for Egypt to stay near the pyramids and travel the

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1960 classmates L to R: Bev Guy, Vickie Kempton, Nancy Ayres, Kitty Shield, Janie Norfleet Class of 1957 Christmas Luncheon at TJ’s in the Jefferson Hotel; L to R; Front Row: Caroline Gray McNiel, Betsy Saunders Miller, Sandra Bruner Hague, Ceci Christison Manley, Judy Cochrane Gilman-Hines, Babs Childrey Fowler; Back Row, Left to Right: Pat Pusey Clark, Mary Denny Wray, Louise Cobb Boggs, Caroline Hunton High, Polly Taylor Watson, Jeanne Brydon

Nile, fulfilling a life-long dream. She was looking forward to warmer weather! Your scribe continues to love living in Richmond and especially reconnecting with classmates. I’m looking forward to our 60th and can possibly host a class of ’56 event at Westminster-Canterbury! In the meantime I urge everyone to come to the St. C. Advent Service and Tea in December followed by lunch with classmates.

It’s always fun. In fact Isabel wrote that she enjoyed attending last December along with Amanda, Susie, Champ Roberts Johnson and myself!

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Ceci Christison Lawson, 3907 Foxfield Ter., Richmond, VA 23233; cecilawson@aol.com; and Ellen Michaux Gower, 786 Drift Rd., Westport, MA 02790; egower4549@aol.com

Susan Cone Scott moved to Austin, Texas last October. “After 51 years of a wonderful life in Charlottesville, I am beginning a whole new chapter of my life. My son Frederic is here in Austin. My daughter Alexandra is not too far away in New Orleans. I am relishing time with my family, and starting this new life. Austin is an exciting city and the people I have met are making this transition really a good one. I have landed well.”

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Susan Judd Cunningham Ellis, 217 Crossing Cove Way, White Stone, VA 22578; sweetsue@vabb.com

Suzanne Sulzer Powers reported that, after nearly forty years of surgeries, pain and discomfort without making much progress with her eyesight, she said farewell to her right eye! She is okay with it, pain free, able to drive legally and adjusting to the challenges of having only one eye. She is to be admired and we send good wishes her way. Alice Horsley Siegel reminds us that she is the proud

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grandmother of nine, including 6 year old Alice Winston Branch ’27, a Gold at St. Catherine’s, and her two brothers who attend St. Christopher’s, who are the children of Eliza Siegel Branch ’93.

Three other grandchildren are in Alexandria and three are in Charlotte, N.C. Alice spends a lot of time at her farm, Chericoke, in King William County, especially in the summer working on her flowers and vegetables. She sounds good and is still having fun. Sally Yeatts Taylor has a granddaughter in the St. C class of 2015 and a new great granddaughter by her oldest granddaughter living in Marion, Va. She is very excited. Lina Lee Bacigalupo Butler divides her time between her homes in Richmond and Deltaville, Va. and is enjoying being the Treasurer of the Deltaville Library. She loves line dancing and even performed in a talent show to benefit the Middlesex County Rescue Squad. Would love to have seen that! Of your class correspondent Susan and husband Gary’s six grandchildren, we have one graduating from Vet School at Virginia Tech and joining a large animal practice in Charlottesville.

Another is graduating from UVA and undertaking her doctorate in physical therapy at VCU. The other four are also doing well in their endeavors.

We are very busy keeping up with various family members on both coasts and in between, including Dallas, where one of our daughters and her husband moved after USAir merged with American Airlines. The other daughters are in Petaluma, Calif. and Williamsburg. I was hoping to hear more news from you all. Remember that news of what you do and where you go is important to all of us and we love keeping up. Please feel free to contact me at any time to report on your comings and goings.

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Linkey Booth Green, 32 Chelsea Ln., Carlisle, PA 17015; linkeyg@embarqmail.com; and Nancy Moss Hahn, 1305 Rye St., Houston, TX 77029; nhmh@aol.com

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Four generations of St. Catherine’s L to R: Alice Branch '27, Eliza Siegel Branch '93, Alice Horsley Siegel '58, Carlisle Morrissett Branch '40

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Kate Roy Massie Christian, 101 Maple Ave., Richmond, VA 23226; kateroy@earthlink.net Kitsy Rose Small has three grown sons and 10 grandchildren ranging in age from 1 year old to 20!

Melinda Parker Skinner had her whole family together last Christmas: “A Christmas miracle!”

Daughter Emily is an award winning Broadway actress and last winter starred in the Virginia Repertory Theatre’s production of Mame. Bruce Miller, artistic director of the Virginia Repertory Theatre, noted that Emily “is an exceptional actress, as well as a vocalist, making her an even better fit for Mame, a role that demands acting chops, as well as vocal chops. Richmond should be proud that she came from the community here.” Definitely watch the video of Dottie Norris Schipper’s free ballroom dance program on YouTube (youtube/Y3GP_9GyB2s). Carol Manning Walker stays “busy with County Zoning Board meetings, party politics, office work for our contractor business …. daughters, grandchildren, trips to the beach and childhood friends coming here for our yearly laugh fest.” Frances Bailey Broaddus Crutchfield’s grandson, Walter Meade Broaddus, was born May 7, 2014 to her son Henry Broaddus, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at William & Mary. Frances received an award from the National Federation of Press Women for one of her poems. On the acting front, she played the grandmother in “The Snow Queen” and the Wicked Witch in “Shrek the Musical” for Chesterfield Children’s Theatre, and was named Best Extra for her portrayal of a drunken bum in “Little Shop of Horrors.” In October, Frances rode the first European train into Iran and recorded the experience in a poem posted on the website for Golden Eagle Luxury Trains. Eva LaVerge de Coligny says “Cal and I have just spent a month on Kauai in Hawaii. Our son Guerric and his family live in Hawaii and we have visited enough to fall in love with the place and its people. We live most of the year in Roanoke and love that too, but not in January. As we age it is fun to run into graduates

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Melinda Parker Skinner ’60 with husband Ernest, daughter Eliza, and daughter Emily. Emily is an award winning Broadway actress who starred earlier this winter in Virginia Repertory Theatre’s production of “Mame.”

of St. C. Head of School Terrie Scheckelhoff and other representatives recently came to Roanoke to tell us about St. C. now and we all agreed we wished it were like that in our day. We’d like to start all over with today’s programs and imaginative curriculum. We are, however, grateful for our lifetime friends and ability to create excellent outlines and papers of all sort learned at St. C!!”

Congratulations to Distinguished Alumna Award

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Winner, Panny Gregory Rhodes. She reports, “My only news is old...my granddaughters, Gillian Rhodes ’26 and Anne Claiborne Rhodes ’21 are

students at St. Catherine’s.” Kate Roy Massie Christian says old news like Panny’s is always good news! And Kate Roy and Dixon still have the

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Dr. Lucy Anderson ’60

Dr. Lucy Anderson ’60 has made significant contributions in the field of tumorigenesis during her 28 years at The National Cancer Institute. Now retired, Dr. Anderson is still publishing papers and researching data.

Dr. Anderson’s career is marked by many rewarding observations, including discovery of a new cancer-causing bacterium as well as large scale population side effects of the antiAIDS drug, AZT. More recently, new research has garnered her attention.

“The most exciting topic for me recently has been transgenerational effects of paternal exposures,” she said. “Incidences of common childhood cancers have been increasing in recent years in the U.S. and Europe, with no clear causes. Epidemiology has indicated that exposures of fathers may be as important as exposures of mothers.”

In her last big experiment before retirement, Dr. Anderson’s team demonstrated that exposure of male mice to chemical stressors not only affected their offspring, but also their offspring’s next generation. This surprising finding suggests that

both cancer risks and more common problems like obesity could be impacted.

Dr. Anderson found early academic inspiration at St. Catherine’s.

“My experience was transformational,” she said. “I learned that I loved to study and to learn. The St. Catherine's learningcentered structure was just right for me at that time.”

Dr. Anderson attended Bryn Mawr for undergraduate and went to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia with a full NSF fellowship. Upon completion of postdoctoral work in biochemistry at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Anderson went to work at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York. While at Kettering, she developed a research program in transplacental carcinogenesis.

Her success at Kettering caught the eye of the National Cancer Institute, where she was hired in 1982.

Even as a retiree, Dr. Anderson continues researching today.

She is in the process of preparing data collected from her final experiment for publication. Her papers currently in preparation relate to these male-mediated transgenerational effects and their impact on cancer risks as well as other disease.

Dr. Anderson may no longer have a laboratory, but she continues to contribute to her field through writing and lecturing.

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Bisbee, Ariz. in November 2013 after a lifetime of living on the East Coast. She lives off the grid on top of a mountain with a several-hundred-mile view on a clear day, which is almost every day. Tris Gowen Graybeal and husband Jim, attended the christening of the John Warner SSN 785 Submarine at Newport News Shipbuilding last September. Jim and Senator Warner Middle School Class Presidents honored Miss Jennie by visting her gravesite attended Washington at Hollywood Cemetary in May. L to R: Rev. Dorothy White, Jonesy Willbanks ’19, and Lee together and Jailah Channer ’20, Lucy Grace Harding ’21, Kelly Jones Willbanks ’79, Debbie Staley were thrilled when the Navy Band played good fortune to live and play right across the the “W&L Swing.” Tris street from Panny’s little girls! Archer Dodson will celebrate her 50th college reunion this Spring Heinzen took part in the Reunion weekend, by at Converse College. Susan Luck spent two weeks speaking at Career Day to the Upper School this winter traveling in Florida with friends. She students. A special thanks to Janie Elliot Norfleet is enjoying her retirement and will travel to the and Beth Allen Cuthbert for helping to organize a Canadian Rockies this summer. Casa Huger Bacot lovely Reunion weekend in April. They did a great is living in Beaufort, S.C. The Charles Street Gallery job in getting us to come back. in Beaufort had an exhibition of her recent work from February 27-March 21, 2015. She now has 11 grandchildren. Susu Woodward Ravenel has Sara Riley Gibson, started an online business called A La Charleston 1318 Loch Lomond Ln., Richmond, VA 23221; (alacharleston.com). It is a curated consignment sarargibson@verizon.net; and shop and she is having lots of fun and challenges Betsy Burke Trow, 415 Somerset Ave., getting it off and running. Susu still sees Sallie Richmond, VA 23226; betsytrow@gmail.com McPherson Duell ’60 and True Gregory Applegate Betsy and I appreciate so much those of you who ’62. Lang and Sara, your class correspondent, send us news. Please let us know your current sailed on the Queen Mary 2 in early January from email address so that we can update our records.

New York City to Southampton, England. We We received the sad news from Hal Woods that spent a week in London before flying home. We his mother, Kathy Ravenel, died in Chicago on hope to go to Iceland in September, where we will March 9, 2015. She had moved to Chicago to be rent a car and drive the Ring Road around Iceland. near her son and his family and enjoyed so much the time she spent with her grandson. Her family Resuming as Correspondent: had memorial services for her in Chicago and Gwen Brannon Weeks, 164 River Bluff Lane, Charleston to honor and celebrate her life. Gina King and Queen Court House, VA 23085; Farrar and her husband are still trying to sell their nauticalgourmet67@verizon.net farm and move to Warrenton, Va. They are building a house very similar to their house now, while Gwen Brannon Weeks’ next door neighbors have still Airstreaming in the U.S. and traveling abroad. two girls at St. C: Paxton Raymond 2026 and Knox Bramlette Pierson and her husband Drew Pender Raymond 2023. Mandy Jernigan was are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a trip Paxton’s kindergarten teacher and clearly did an to Canada. Drew is still teaching golf while Knox is excellent job teaching math to the class! Gwen adjusting to having both of their children and their shares her stories reviewing math with Paxton: families living out of state. Son Drew moved to “One day I had some change on the table and Mississippi to take advantage of the oil industry Paxton mentally computed the amount. The there while daughter Sara continues to live in Vail teacher in me took that teaching opportunity to with her snowboarding 11-year-old, Clay. Lenore add more change to further challenge her. On Gay continues writing and enjoys being a grandone occasion, I was watching food network and mother. Carolyn Reynolds Marsh moved to I started teaching her liquid measurements and

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challenged her with various combinations to give me the correct number of ounces as well as pints and quarts. She liked to cook with me so I tested her reading skills and math skills during those sessions… and I am still amazed at how well a rising first grader performed. Mrs. J should be proud!” Susan Jordan Copeland continues “to be delighted with the high standards maintained by the school - good work!” Sydnor “Smokie” Sizemore Crews reports she spent a lovely warm winter in Naples, Fla. and then traded her warm weather clothes for winter togs for an April adventure in Iceland. She says the magical geothermal island is full of fun things to do and yummy food to eat. Snowmobiling on a glacier, seeing the Northern Lights dance and being up to her neck in warm water in the Blue Lagoon were trip highlights. Smokie looks forward to a summer of boating and golf. Kathryn Ingram Lyon enjoyed a two week visit to Fort Myers, Fla. and then nine days in Lake Buena Vista. With the cold weather hitting Lexington, Ky. very hard this winter, she and Rick would love to stay longer in Florida. Marty Rogers Brown and family enjoyed the wedding and festivities for son Mac’s marriage to Kristin Hilger in Yountville, Calif. (Napa Valley) in early February. Marty then retreated to Vero Beach for the remainder of February to soak up the warm weather. Anne Tilghman has returned to Richmond and is living at WestminsterCanterbury. She is delighted her daughter Helen has recently moved to Richmond. Bonnie Blanton Shelor has been busy with her painting and frame restoration business. Leslie Thompson Brockman’s granddaughter Ann Austin Brockman is a rising 1st grader at St. Catherine’s. Jan Norman Orgain’s son Mark is now a Captain in the Navy.

His job involves a lot of travel all over the United States to each unit that provides support for the Seals and other units. Fortunately he is in California and out of harm’s way. Jan is very thankful that her son Frazer and his family reside in Richmond and have been so supportive in this first year without Al after 48 years. Much to our chagrin, Nancy Bullard Reed’s son Wilson Platt, age 42, died February 9 from a glioblastoma. He was a man who dearly loved his family, animals, and rural life. Wilson was very talented musically and also devoted to restoring historic architecture. We send our deepest sympathies to Nancy.

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Ann Dennison Murray, 312 Landing Ln., Chestertown, MD 21620; admurray@ksu.edu; Susan Klaus, 1 John Christopher Ct., Richmond, VA 23226; susan.klaus@verizon.net

Not much news, perhaps some of us are still coming out of hibernation! Barbara Bassett Rittner reported 110 inches of snow fell in Buffalo.

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She was “considering a pilgrimage” on a rumor that a crocus had been spotted emerging from the ice. Lati Gordon and husband Albert escaped for the winter to coastal Alabama and are now back in Delaware. Robin Rosborough Webster hosted a reunion in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. for Kay Ferriday Blossom, Lillian Barnes Dewey, Amanda Schuster Frei, Aussie Cecil Geer, Anne Warren Holland, Nancy McLean Jenkins, Maggie Myers Morris, Betty Lee Miller Payne, and Frances Williams Twiss. The fun bunch was celebrating a bevy of 70th birthdays. Sherry Montgomery Pyle has “re-retired” from Florida to the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina. She would love to hear from anyone who is nearby. Betsy Williams Poist is now “bi-coastal” with a new grandbaby, Alexa, in California. She and husband David marvel at the ever-expanding vocabulary of grandson Davis in Asheville, N.C. Other grandbabies require a bit more travel: Frances Twiss visits grandson Oliver and his little sisters, twins Caroline and Isabel (born May 20, 2014), in Bermuda; Anne Holland and husband Peter were planning a visit to Nicaragua to catch up with daughter Susannah and her family. Anne Stuart Brown Swann wrote that she “was half afraid of sending in any news.” Her last appeal from Sweet Briar College was followed in days by news of its closing! We can all join her in rejoicing that “St. Catherine’s is going strong.” Anne Stuart continues to deal with her acoustic neuroma and hoping to avoid more surgery. We send our best wishes and positive thoughts to her and to all of us as we confront more challenges in our 70th decade.

Your correspondent Susan continues to be grateful for the move to Richmond and the chance to enjoy my long-standing (not old!) friends.

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Cathy Hayden, 3011 Libby Ter., Richmond, VA 23223; libbyterrace@gmail.com

Punkin Lee is still in Middleburg, Va. and has owned Journeyman Saddles for 38 years. She serves on several town appointed boards as well as the boards of the National Sporting Library and Museum, the Upperville Colt and Horse Show and the Virginia Fall Races. “All keep me busy!”

Marguerita Chandler Riggall enjoyed the 2014 Reunion: “Many, many thanks again to all the Richmond girls for their outstanding hospitality.

What a treat to reconnect with all of you who came to a fabulous event.” She and husband George stay busy with their four children and seven grandchildren. With one child’s family moving to Fairfield, Conn. and another to Johannesburg, South Africa, they will have new places to visit. Marguerita and George recently spent three weeks in Rome, Sicily, and France. Lisa Mabley Kirby had big news. She finished school and was ordained in St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Kinston, N.C. on June 20, 2014. She will be stay-

L to R; Bottom Row: Betty Davenport Wright, Polly Bozorth, Jon Lee Levering Salmon, Ann Rawlings Colby, Martha Anne Maddux Hastings, Elizabeth LeSueur, Norvell Adamson Lamb, Holmes Bridgers Ramsay; Row 2: Margaret Eppes Curtis, Fran Davis Ward, Abigail Norfleet James, Jody Nesmith, Sally Williams Christiansen, Buff Hanes Thomas, Dianne Buckle Jefferson; Top Row: Charlotte Moore Davenport, Carolyn Mapp Hewes, Lillian Young, Barbara Montgomery O’Connell, Louise Miller Rucker, Weezie Firth

ing in New Bern at a church in the area, as yet unassigned. As National Vice President of Recovery Ministries of the Episcopal Church, she is working to get churches involved in ministry to those affected by alcoholism and addiction. Her son Jonathan was nominated for a Grammy and, although he did not win, she was very proud of his nomination. Gary and Alice Bryan Dehner had a month long trip in November visiting all the national and state parks they could in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Oklahoma. The hiking and scenery were fabulous with weather from the 90s to 20s - blazing sun to snow! Good thing they like to travel, with their sons living in Boston, Houston and Coronado Island. Now fully retired, Cameron Beckwith Srpan wrote from Roanoke that she is leaving for warm Florida soon.

After working part time at the Roanoke Valley Governor’s School for 10 years past retirement, she is ready to enjoy life! Sally Guy Lynch Brown’s latest news is the birth of a third grandson, Fenton Lynch O’Neil, on January 5. The day after his birth she and Tom went on a trip to Antarctica.

“Another planet it seemed, but really beautiful.”

Nancy DashielI Fanning is currently living in Bethany Beach, Del. and working part-time at Bethany Beach Books, www.bethanybeachbooks. com, an independent bookstore located at the boardwalk. Her husband Michael still works in the Washington, D.C. area and comes to the beach on the weekends. Their two children, Matthew 32, and Kate 29, married last fall three weeks apart.

She hopes any of her St. Catherine’s classmates who happen to vacation at the Delaware shore will stop in the bookstore and say hello. Your class

correspondent is beginning to think “light” as I pack my plein air art supplies and head to France for three weeks. Every year I vow to travel more simply. I think that is a good motto for my everyday life.

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Lillian Glover Young, 1180 Courtyard Dr., Charlottesville, VA 22903; lillgyoung@aol.com

The Class of 1965 had a wonderful time at the 50th Reunion. Rita MacNelly was kind enough to host the class party, Weezie Firth, did a great job organizing memorial flowers for our deceased classmates, and she also gave each attendee a button with our Senior photo. Abigail Norfleet James and Lillian Glover participated in Career Day. Saturday ended with a wonderful tour of the most recent VMFA exhibit, lead by Annabel Morgan Edge ’64.

Ann D. Flowerree sent wishes for a wonderful reunion. “I would love to attend but my mother’s ill health keeps me Oregon bound.” Thank you to all of you for coming to Reunion and we hope to see you on campus again soon.

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Louise Hayman, 1 Cumberland Ct., Annapolis, MD 21401; louise.lake.hayman@gmail.com

Frances Gravely observed the harsh winter of 2015 by sliding on ice and breaking her leg.

Coincidentally, Alice Caldwell Steele was visiting North Carolina from her home in California at the time of the mishap and was able to bolster Frances’ spirits in person before the surgery occasioned by the fall. Neighbor Emily Borden

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Ragsdale would have been there, too, but she was floating around the Bahamas, preparing for a few other travels including driving cross country with a friend relocating to Oregon and later traveling to France and Portugal. Mary McNair Livingston had a recent wedding in her family – the subject of her 2014 Christmas card -- which now includes three married children and five grandchildren. I am delighted there’s been an innovation in Corbin Kendig Rankin’s Christmas communications: she actually typed her news, so I am fairly certain I am getting the latest straight. Corbin and husband Tom managed to get out of Richmond several times last year: St. Martin, Morocco and the Bahamas were among the destinations. It appears there are four grandchildren among their sons.

Also, from Richmond, I heard from Bromby Luck Earle that she and Bob did some holiday traveling to New England enjoying family. Cindy Parke Beukema and John were peripatetic despite John’s broken hip early last year. They visited South Dakota, England and Wales. Their sons are doing well in structural engineering and acting.

Grandson Max is a trainaholic. (I have one of those, too. There is no 12 Step program.) Wish all our grandchildren could have joined Lynn Hornor Keith and her husband as they witnessed Alice Caldwell Steele playing the role of the Giant in Jack and The Beanstalk when the Keiths visited northern California this winter. I am doing a bit of traveling, had a glorious trip to the Caribbean with Emily Borden Ragsdale, and in April a rowing trip through the Cognac region of France. At the winter Ellett Alumnae Board meeting, I was reminded that the school’s 125th anniversary celebration, which actually launches this spring, will culminate on the weekend of our 50th reunion, April 15-16, 2016. Please get those dates on your calendar. Lots of great and innovative festivities are planned. Make a hotel reservation, engage the pet sitter, tell the children you can’t babysit that weekend, book your plastic surgery and start your diets! It will be here before we know it. I am not sure, but I have a strong suspicion, that today’s 50th reunion is the new 30th reunion.

Let’s make it so. Even if you’re not keen on the people part of a reunion, you have to see what St. Catherine’s has become in 50 years — a national powerhouse in educating young women. Really.

With nearly 1,000 students, we are the third largest girls’ school in the National Coalition of Girls' Schools. On a sad note, several of us were informed first hand in February of the demise of Sweet Briar College. I think 12 from our class went on to SBC. I am sure you all share my profound disappointment and sadness at such an institution becoming no longer viable. Jus’ sayin’.

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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; and Janie Hanes Lambeth, 2809 Shandy Ln., Wilmington, NC 28409; jhl@ec.rr.com

Darcy Bevelacqua and her husband Charles L to R; Back row: Mary Atkinson Stone ’68, Lacy Williams ’69, Holly Materne Antrim Becraft took a two ’69, Jane Potts ’69, Tassie Bosher ’69, Melinda Williams Davis ’69, Betsy Moore week vacation to Tompkins ’69; Front Row: Ginger Harrison Adamson ‘68, Page Murrell Woltz ’69, Alaska. They saw “all Laura Leake Brown ’69, Lucy McCullough Schneider ’69, Elsie Dickinson Hovis ’68 the animals and the Denali Mountain” Martha Bosher Wasserman has big news: “I went during a week in Denali and Anchorage, then took to India with my daughter and her family to meet a week long cruise down the inland waterway. my son-in-law’s parents and extended family Writes Darcy, “I highly recommend Alaska if you at last - a very stimulating and interesting experihave a little time.” Darcy and Charles summered ence. We spent most of the time visiting with at their Keuka Lake house in upstate New York. relatives instead of touring, but that gave me a Keuka Lake has an unusual “Y” shape that places deeper understanding of Indian society and the inlet and outlet both at the northern end. For customs. We have two grandchildren, ages 3-1/2 the winter they head to Bradenton, Fl. Darcy still and 1-1/2, and Frank and I do a lot of babysitting. runs her own business focused on customer expeI’m still working part-time in my landscape design rience consulting for large firms including AARP and consultation business and probably will for a and the Ritz-Carlton and is “still working out on a couple more years, but have peeled off teaching regular basis with five miles a day.” Kathy Fleming adult education classes and container gardening Barton writes, “Retirement is great! I’m free to so I have more flexibility and time for other things. visit my kids, travel with my twin Beth Fleming I do a lot of volunteer work in the area of mental Skidmore, and work in my garden growing health and homelessness and I am a team leader veggies in straw bales!” in the eight county region-wide effort (across

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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; and Helen Harrison Tripp, 5810 Three Chopt Rd., Richmond, VA 23226; hhtripp@aol.com

Kate Withers Oates and husband Hugh are “reinventing” themselves as they go into the Social Security/ Medicare bunch. “The government says we are old. We disagree. We decided that life was too short to not enjoy everything. We also decided that we had traveled all over the world and that it was now time to revisit the U.S.A. and explore cities in depth. In May 2014 we spent three weeks in New Orleans. If anybody needs restaurant recommendations, let me know. Wonderful!

Next stop this June is San Francisco. Can’t wait.”

Ohio and Northern Kentucky) to get two million trees planted by 2020. And Betts Carpenter Reed moved to Columbus, Ohio last fall, so we have seen each other several times for coffee or lunch here in Cincinnati, where she travels frequently for her job. I had only seen her once since St. C graduation!” Betsy Higgins writes that she lives in Concord, Mass., and loves retirement after forty years at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Betsy is involved in a bunch of volunteer work, sees lots of her son Will who lives just outside of Boston and she comes to Richmond often to see family. And from Judy Halsey: “My daughter Shaw Vance just had her second baby on March 2. Her name is Judith Ruth Okada-Vanze. She is, of course, adorable. Her sister Elisabeth loves her very much as does her father Kenli Okada. We are all happy!” Many thanks to those of you who contributed notes for this issue. To the rest of you, there is always going to be a “next issue,” so be prepared. CHEERS!

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1970 classmates Annabel Moses Poignier and Kristin Rehder met at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.

They recently discovered they only live one hour from each other.

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Holly Materne Antrim, 411 South Mooreland Rd., Richmond, VA 23229; chelma23229@yahoo.com; and Tassie Bosher, 222 East Hickory St., Hinsdale, IL 60521; tassbosher@yahoo.com

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Tassie Bosher and husband Pepe joined Anna Moore Butzner in Grand Rapids, Mich. for ArtPrize, an international art competition. Tassie confirms that “Anna Moore’s golf game continues to kill, she plays in tournaments all over Michigan and in a series of tournaments in Florida.” Tassie and husband Pepe are still in Chicago, and have more time to travel now, to visit one daughter working in Brooklyn, and the other in Moab, Utah. They spent ten days in Barcelona in January. Another winter highlight was dinner with Nancy Robertson McAteer’s daughter Maggie who also lives in Chicago. Tassie is a docent at Unity Temple, a Frank Lloyd Wright site that has been nominated for UNESCO World Heritage designation. After retiring from teaching after 18 years, Molly Preston Farnsworth stays busy with her grandchildren, traveling and catching up with friends. Anne Gant and her mother went on an Alaskan cruise last summer and had a blast. “We’re two galavanting ol’ broads who enjoy road trips, good wine, dining out, good wine, cruising the mountains, relaxing in the Bahamas, and spending time with family (“we” have a great grandchild!)” Anne Rennolds Gray serves on the vestry and altar guild at St. Michael’s Church in Richmond. She has had 12 poems published in “Skipping Stones,” a literary journal published in Chesapeake. She’s currently enjoying a writing class at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Her daughter Helen is living, working and studying in Richmond. Harriet Broughton Holliday and Ginger Doughton Finley spent time together in Florence, Italy last fall. They had previously been there in 1972 when they were studying abroad. Page Murrell Woltz has three grandchildren, twins and a 1 year old. She went on a

marvelous garden trip to Ireland, and plays a lot of golf. She enjoys her work as the North Carolina director to Stratford Hall. Martha Robertson Legare is delighted with Atlanta. She loves her job with Gantt Group consulting and training in organization change and project management, and does not plan to retire soon. She spent three weeks in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico last December, working, relaxing, visiting friends, and eating great Mexican food. Betsy Meyer Anderson reports that her granddaughter Meg is now 3, but has only had one birthday. That’s right, she was born on Leap Day! Betsy continues working as a school librarian and Gifted and Talented teacher.

She also reports that she has taken yoga classes with Mary Ashton (“She’s a great yoga teacher!”)

Jane Potts went to Croatia and Italy with friends from Charleston. Dubrovnik and Cinque Terre were highlights, as well as seeing Placido Domingo in an opera at La Scala in Milan! Dorothy Reber Williamson lives near Jane. In January Tassie Bosher, Melinda Williams Davis, Page Murrell Woltz, Holly Materne Antrim, Betsy Moore Tompkins, Lucy McCullough Schneider and Lucy’s daughter Julia gathered for dinner at Laura Leake Brown’s. They were joined by Mary Atkinson Stone, Elsie Dickinson Hovis, and Ginger Harrison Adamson from the class of 1968. Betsy Tompkins and husband Chip gave up country life and moved to Richmond’s west end to be closer to three grandchildren. She and Chip are both TV celebrities: Betsy was featured on “Antiques Roadshow” and Chip was profiled on “Your Business” which airs on MSNBC.

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Frere Sands French, 4052 Coal Spring Ln., Apt. 2A, Glen Allen, VA 23060; fsfren7@gmail.com; and Bitsy Marshall Hillsman, 1113 Hyde Ln., Henrico, VA 23229; bitsymarshall@gmail.com Dear hot flashers, Molly Cox Moncure’s son Trip Jennings was named by GearJunkie.com as one of the 110 most important outdoor ambassadors of the last 110 years. Impressive! Trip has made numerous kayaking firsts, including the first source-to-sea trip of Papua New Guinea’s Pandi River and the first descent of the raging lower Congo River. Nowadays, Trip travels with his camera filming for conservation projects from documenting poachers in the Congo to capturing threatened salmon migrations in Alaska. Ellen Thacker Satchell’s daughter Emily graduated with honors from VCU and is the morning digital content producer for ABC WRIC Channel 8 in Richmond. Molly Carpenter Sprouse appreciates the love and support she felt following the death of her 93 year old mother, Anne. This sad time was followed by the joy of her nephew Will’s wedding on Valentine’s Day. Mimi Hill Wilk writes from Arizona that she and her husband Greg are enjoying their grandson George, who is 1-year-old. They enjoyed having dinner with Charles and Emory Furniss Maxwell and other fellow Sweet Briar College friends last winter. Kate Horsley writes from New Mexico that she and Morgan enjoyed a one month meditation retreat in Majorca last winter. After 27+ years as a college professor, Kate has finally retired and was awarded the 2015

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Holly Eason Holden, 130 Main St., Farmington, CT 06032; HollyHoldenLtd@aol.com; and Jane Blanton Stout, 140 Meadowlark, Princeton, WV 24740; jbgar831@aol.com

Siblings Larry Blanchard (St. Chris ’68), Sally Blanchard Rawls ’72, Neal Blanchard Johnson ’70, and Buck Blanchard (St. Chris ’76) took a missions trip in South Sudan to work at an Episcopal elementary school.

Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel for her book that will be published next year.

WOW, can’t wait to read this. Dotty Reynolds Brotherton’s little granddaughters are loving St. Catherine’s (first and third grades). Dotty’s daughter and son-in-law have launched Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery, Virginia’s first farm craft brewery located in Goochland County... road trip for future parties!! Writes Dotty, “Family and friends are our greatest joys...long walks, a little yoga, volunteer service and some fun travel round out life….” Jeanne Johns Cassin writes that she suffered through the months of snow last winter. Daughter Paige has become the perennial bridesmaid and works for American Express in N.Y.C. Jean Alston Palamar now has five grandsons ages 2 to 7, “such a joy” and she has been working for the past year for a digital magazine, Perreaultmagazine.com...check it out. We are most grateful to Kathy Barger Conrad and John who graciously hosted the 45th Reunion Party for our class in April. Franklin Stone Wenk writes that she remains overcommitted between volunteer work and house renovations. Her daughter Anne graduated from Harvard in May and is with a N.Y.C. consulting firm. Kristin Rehder, our globetrotter, journeyed to the Grand Canyon in the winter and to Paris in May, and in January 2016 will go on an expedition to Antarctica. Your correspondent, Frere’s son Marshall will be married in September 2015. Our Richmond group misses Laura Funkhouser Ruml who moved back to the west coast with her husband. Co-correspondent, Bitsy Marshall Hillsman’s daughter Kate Marshall Stikeleather ’00 and husband James are the proud parents of Elizabeth Mae (Elle) born November 2014. Bitsy and Willis Lathrop O’Brien have so much fun working together in extended day at St. Christopher’s. Willis has been a real asset to the program. After her first career as an attorney, Pril Lynn Swalm is enjoying a second career as a hospice social worker. Husband Dennis works as a photographer, and daughter Annie works in L.A. for a Sony Pictures Studio producer.

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with wife Meghan and daughter Olivia, 1. Jamie is a director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Edie’s younger son Alex is in college in Colorado Springs, and stepson Aaron works in event management in northern Virginia. The rest of you, please keep in touch so that we can share your news with the rest.

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Christine Kjellstrom Douglas, 14 Lynacres Blvd., Fayetteville, NY 13066; ckdouglas@verizon.net Katie Currin Hammond retired March 31, 2015 after 16 years as a Circuit Court Judge in Virginia.

Attending her retirement ceremony were classmates Ann Fowle Rumble, Sara Flemer Simpson and Susan Stevens. Katie plans to wear shorts and flip flops every day this summer. Polly Dickinson Wall’s son Will and his wife had a boy in December; so she now has two grandsons in Richmond and loves it! Sarah Gayle Carter has settled in her renovated, adorable house in Lexington, Va. and she received a surprise visit from Christine Kjellstrom Douglas. Christine has one daughter in Charleston, S.C. at the Medical University of South Carolina and another working in Birmingham, Ala., having finished a masters program there. Sarah Johann Ellison lives on the scenic Shenandoah River where she enjoys painting and riding. She has a grandson and granddaughter and sees Louise Curtis Hanscom frequently. Sally Williams Wittkofski is still doing design work with the added bonus of working with schoolmates. When not designing, she’s gardening with husband Mark. Her son Nick is headed to Highland County, Va. to attend the Allegheny Mountain Institute. Elizabeth Parker Coughter’s niece, daughter of Mary Harding Parker Hodges ’74 is a graduate of the Institute.

Classmates reading this Newsletter: Would you mind contacting Mary Butler at mbutler@ st.catherines.org or 804-281-7141 to update your email address if you are not receiving emails from me! Look forward to hearing from everyone.

Greetings! It was love at first sight for Carroll Blair Keiger upon meeting her first grandchild, Hadley Blair Wilton, born on January 15 to Carroll’s daughter Catie Wilton ’00. Liz Kern Nance has released a CD, “American Sampler,” featuring favorite American songwriters. She sings and plays mandolin on the CD with her guitar-playing partner, Russell. Daughter Caroline is the manager at The Royal Standard in Baton Rouge, La., and daughter Mary Page had her N.Y.C. Broadway debut March 15 in Finding Neverland. The whole family enjoyed New York in early April. Rae Ann Lindberg Puff is enjoying ballroom dancing. She prefers showcase performances more than tedious competitions, but won Top New Female Student in competition last summer. Daughter Tori is a dance teacher and choreographer. Holly Eason Holden helped daughter Caroline plan her wedding in Newport, R.I. last September. Caroline lives in Park City, Utah, but is working with Holly.

They see each other at clients’ houses in Palm Beach, Boston, and N.H. Daughter Alexandra is living in Berlin, but Stuart and Holly travel to see Alexandra and her family. Holly is working on another book and made a pilot program for PBS about interior design in America. Look for it! Leigh MacDougall Gage and Jon visited son Jesse in Myanmar where he works at advertising agency Today Ogilvy & Mather. They visited Yangon, Mandalay, Bagan and Inle Lake. Leigh and sister Lynn MacDougall-Fleming ’71 traveled to Kentucky with their 95 year old mother who wanted to show them her native state. They enjoyed visiting a horse racing track and seeing cousins. Margy Priddy went to Ireland to “walk in the steps of St. Patrick” with a group from her church parish. She spent a week in Augusta, Ga. during Christmas caring for her 5 year old grandtwins while son Chris and daughter-in-law Gretchen worked new jobs at Club Car. Daughter Morgan will graduate from Catholic University with a BS in Chemistry. Margy has been appointed as Nurse Peer Reviewer for the North Carolina Nurses Association. Ever thought of donating a kidney? Susan Ray Karlson did. When one of her lifelong friends with polycystic kidney disease (PKD) was told she would wait three to six years on the list for a deceased donor kidney, Susan discovered that her own living donation of a kidney allowed her friend to promptly receive another well-matched kidney from a living donor, and a new life. Susan encourages you to visit www.donatelife.net/register-now to learn more.

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Christmas Joy: Carter Doswell (St. Chris '73) and Jeff Jacobs gather the harem to celebrate Landon Hall's visit: Susan Jones, Gussie Bannard, Betsy Hall, Lisa Harrison, Landon Hall and Ellen Ball.

Susan and her friend are several weeks out at this writing and doing very well. Susan’s daughter provided the “cutest grandson ever,” (Sam, 1 year old) and her son is searching for the woman of his dreams in Texas hill country. Sally Blanchard Rawls returned from a trip to South Sudan in March, along with sister Neal Blanchard Johnson ‘70 and brothers Larry and Buck. Sally says, “My younger brother is head of Missions for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. His vision was for his brother and two sisters to go together with him on a Mission trip. Instead it turned out to be a mission for us....Humbling, life changing for all of us, great to be siblings again and VERY HOT!” Your class correspondent, Jane, is writing while watching snow fall. Craig and I just returned from Hawaii and are warmed by anticipation of a visit from my children, both of whom live and work in Winston-Salem, N.C.

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Jennifer Wright Fitzgerald, P.O. Box 70667, Henrico, VA 23255; jenn73stc@gmail.com; and Tiane Mitchell-Gordon, 10702 Milkweed Dr., Great Falls, VA 22066; tiane.mitchell.gordon@outlook.com

Sally Vitsky Ucci continues to teach in the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Communication Arts and plans to pursue her Master of Art Education at VCU. Martha Murray Smith’s daughter Carrie graduated from Boston University in early December and is currently interning with a TV station in Brookline, Mass. Her future plans may include moving to Seattle, Wash. or Austin, Texas in September. Son Charlie is a hair stylist in Baltimore and is fabulous with color! Our artist is putting his creativity to work!” Martha and Rick are still working; he as the Director of Pain Management at the Medical University of South Carolina and Martha as a nurse anesthetist at the V.A. hospital in Charleston, one of the best in the country. You can always go home again, or at least

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back to Richmond! Welcome back Landon Hall!

Gussie Johns Bannard reported that she, Betsy Hall, Lisa Ruffin Harrison, Ellen Gill, and Susan Williams Jones along with their long-suffering spouses (her words), got together to welcome Landon to town. Need we say that storytelling and raucous laughter was the order of the evening? Meredith Allen meets up with your correspondent, Jennifer Wright Fitzgerald regularly.

Meredith visits the Millenium Sight and Sound Theater Lancaster, Pa. twice a year and loves it.

Last October Meredith saw “Moses”’ with friends and is looking forward to seeing “Joseph” with husband Mark Ronquest. She loves that these plays always tie Jesus into Old Testament stories.

Jennifer also writes in that “church has been in Revival since last October, meeting four to seven nights a week! To some, that may sound tiresome, but to me, it is energizing and inspirational! The Holy Spirit always shows up and He is never boring!” Many thanks to Jennifer for creating the St. Catherine’s Class of ’73 Group on Facebook.

It’s a great way to stay connected or as Martha says “It has been fun people-watching on Facebook, seeing where Tiane is dining and going to plays, Brenda Todd Stryszko’s birds, Lisa Stein Woodruff’s golf scores, Jane Hart Lewis’s latest grandchild, Garland Peete Simon’s fountain of youth, Jenni Pendergrass’s hikes, Sally Vitsky Ucci’s art, and Susan Pfefferkorn’s India pictures.”

Tiane, your class correspondent: “Theater continued to be a passion in my semi-retirement. In

between consulting projects, I indulge in being the audience for local and national productions.

And to ensure that I’m always around creative, eclectic people, I joined the advisory board for The Welders, a playwright collective in the D.C. area.”Jean Newman Glock, in between traveling the world, shared a recent “Town & Country” post “26 Signs You Went to Boarding School” on Facebook. “OK St. Catherine’s friends — this list rings very true....except we befriended day students, talking about you Anna Wells Skeen because you were a wonderful friend... and your mom made great creme de menthe parfaits! Miss you all.” See what you miss when you’re not on Facebook? For those of us who experienced joy, loss or both this year, know that you were constantly in our thoughts, hearts and prayers. That is the power of the St. Catherine’s family. We look forward to hearing from more of you for the next update. Until then, Cheers!

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Pamela Port Wylly’s daughter Virginia married Braxton Lee Patton on May 31, 2014 in Nashville, Tenn. and is living in Richmond.

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Molly Fowler, 120 West 70th St., 5C, New York, NY 10023; mollymfowler@mac.com

Unfortunately our new correspondent Molly Fowler was unable to attend our 40th Reunion

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in April. Molly we missed you. Thanks to Drury Wellford’s outreach through Facebook, we had a FABULOUS turnout of 47 classmates, with Joyce Thompson winning the prize for the longest commute—from Singapore. It was great to see Joyce and her husband Rocky, who has made a miraculous recovery from a devastating car accident. Our other international traveler was Susan Chitwood, traveling from her new home in Freeport, Bahamas. Three of our classmates, Virginia Christian Beach, Charlotte Fox and Amie Rennolds participated in Upper School Career Day, so we were well represented. We were delighted to have so many boarders amongst us, and all of us agreed we haven’t changed a bit (perhaps our sight has!) The highlight of the weekend was gathering for our class party at the home where Gigi Rawles Miller grew up, and where her sister Rika now lives—the scene of many a weekend party “back in the day.” Many thanks to Gigi and Rika, and to all of the classmates who put together the splendid evening, including Margy Valentine Brown, Lucy Leake DeJarnette, Honey Trigg Sachs, and Mary Claiborne Frediani. And finally a big round of applause for Posey Bryan Hemenway, Eleanor Deane Bierbower, Judy Carpenter Hawthorne and Jan Bracken Wright, under whose leadership we were pleased as punch to be recognized as the class with the highest percentage of participation at 84%! For any of you who have not yet made your gift, there is still time to help us reach our goal of 100%! The friendships we made at St. C are deep, with some of us entering Kindergarten together in 1962. A few of those classmates were able to extend the weekend by gathering at the beautiful home of Maria Gregory Crawford—what a fantastic time we had! Maria was an incredible hostess—bringing in a stockpile of groceries from which she prepared the most delectable meals, and leading us on a nature expedition, and most of all giving us the opportunity to soak in the company of each other. Mimi Sadler ’73, sister of Laura Sadler Mackay, tried to serve as our chaperone but alas could not be heard above the din.

Mimi we loved having you with us! Everyone who attended Reunion Weekend agreed, five years is far too long to wait to have another reunion, particularly with those of you who were not able to be with us this time. Plans are afoot for a redoux next April to coincide with the 125th Gala in April, so mark your calendars and plan to join us.

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Lisa Pratt, 1431 Q St. NW, Washington, DC 20009; lpratt@gmail.com

The Class of ’76 is very sad and mourns deeply the loss of our classmate, The Rev. Dr. Martha H. Giltinan, after a yearlong battle with leukemia.

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spirit and beautiful singing voice. She and former St. Catherine’s Chaplain Reverend Phillip Whitehead were very close. Martha served as the Trinity School for Ministry’s Director of Mentored Ministry. In other news from the great class of ’76, we learn that Indy Burke still directs the School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming and enjoys traveling in the Rockies, back east, and most recently South America. She says, “Happy International Women’s Day” to all of us! Susie Goodale is digging out from under the snow in Minnesota. Last fall she and her husband completed an Ironman competition in Madison, Wis. This spring Susie had three children graduating from college on the same day! (One undergrad, one law school, one nursing). Jane Oppenhimer Wilson writes that she just finished touring colleges with her youngest and that her mom Mimi Oppenhimer, our former fabulous English teacher, just relocated to Williamsburg and would love visitors. Ann Rachal Toll writes that she has logged 35 years of federal service and is contemplating retirement. Beth Irby Beale enjoys her service on the St. Catherine’s Richmond Alumnae Board. Her two girls, both Saints alumnae, are working in nursing and education. Terrell Horsley Welch works as a psychologist / counselor and is wrangling with her two sons: Robert (17) and Arthur (15). She enjoys having a large family presence in Richmond.

Ginny Reynolds Parker, who was a classmate of ours in the Lower School, lives in Greenwich, Conn. and manages an investment company that she founded. Both her children live in NYC. She is excited to be planning a wedding for her daughter and partner. Ginny is very active at Duke (where she attended as an undergrad) as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Visitors of the Environmental School and she serves on St. C's Foundation Board, overseeing the School's endowment.

Charlotte Gay Gerhardt lives near Jane in Williamsburg where she works part-time in development for the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Correction from an earlier post: Charlotte’s three girls are doing well: Catherine works as a lawyer in Leesburg; Augusta is the Assistant Activity Director for the Renaissance Retirement Center in Due West, S.C. and Ann Burton is a digital planner for MediaVest in NYC. They enjoyed a family vacation in Vail. Also of note: many of our classmates wrote in about their four-legged family members: some losses and lots and lots of cuteness.

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Becky Pugh, 2 Eagle Ridge Ct., Bethesda, MD 20817; bonejour1986@verizon.net

Jill Ellis Traywick has a new Dr. Traywick in the family! Her daughter Ellis Traywick ’06 graduated from vet school and is working as an equine vet at Blue Ridge Equine Clinic in Charlottesville, Va. Jill’s

L to R: 1979 classmates Judy Wurtzel and Grace Morgan at Golden Rock in Myanmar

son Crisman now lives and works in Charleston, S.C. Grace Morgan was stateside last New Year’s Eve visiting family in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Who should be included in the dinner but Jean and Mike Churchman! Mike was Head of School at St. Catherine’s during the 1970’s. They had a wonderful evening playing catch up, then it was back to India for Grace! Grace and Judy Wurtzel ’79 have become good friends and recently were together at Golden Rock in Myanmar. I don’t know if she happened to see Happy Martin Willis who was in India last February hiking and touring the tiger reserve, in a vehicle of course! Last I heard from Happy, she was in Florence, Italy with her husband Jim visiting his son. Lots of puppies are taking the places of children in empty nests. Both Mary Lou Henderson Clarke and Happy have new Golden Retrievers. Frances Valentine Massey went into the wild on safari in Kenya and other spots in Africa. Olivia Hayes Immerman is all smiles too.

She has vanquished cancer for the second time in her life. Olivia is grateful for every day. She celebrates life by bowing out of the working world and has a life of giving back. She now volunteers in the pediatrics ward and also helps with the Wounded Warrior Care Center at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Md. She has three grandchildren too!

Her children live mostly in California which makes for great reasons to visit San Francisco and Los Angeles. Margaret Molster Bush was recently in

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Nan Leake '80 at her farm on a tractor

L to R; Bottom Row: Agnes Frazier Richard, Lynley Rosanelli Cavanaugh, Ruth Hill Klinck, Beth Trice Moore, Nancy Tucker Thompson; Top Row: Susan Betts, Madeline Hutcheson Mayhood, Helen McKenney Ilnicky, Elizabeth Ware, Constance Cardozo Costas

a production of Neil Simon’s comedy “Rumors” in Boca Grande, Fla. We send condolences to Margaret, who suffered the loss her mother Betty Molster to cancer. We all remember her presence around St. Catherine’s when we were in school and were sad to hear this news. Mary Stuart Bolling Smith, Sarah Martin Hergüner and many other graduates of Sweet Briar College are working together to help save their alma mater.

Nancy Hill Goodall is taking up new things. She is determined to figure out Instagram, especially since her son Billy will be in Myanmar (Burma) for the next year helping to implement the first free election since the 1950’s. Surely there will be some great photos for proud mama coming from him.

Psychiatrist Sallie Jo Hadley has a musical side! In New York, Sally Jo participates in lots of musical shows as a singer. Spring couldn’t come soon enough this year for Bev Bryan Vernon, who lives in Massachusetts. Nothing like three feet of snow to make mowing the lawn in the heat of summer sound delicious. My news is that Bone Jour turned 29 this year. Hard to believe. The pressure is on to make it to 30 and figure out a fitting celebration.

Please send me your news at becky@bonejour. com. If you don’t, I’ll just look on Facebook or will make some up!

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Meredith Owen Holbrook, 6 Ridgewood Rd., St. Louis, MO 63124; meredithholbrook@hotmail.com

Betty Boyd Blaydes Lewis wrote on the eve of a mercy mission trip to Israel. She was going to work in the cancer ward of Hadassah Hospital

— the hospital where, many of us will recall, her mother volunteered for so many years. Betty Boyd said her mother is not well enough to continue on these mission trips so it’s fitting that she follows in her footsteps to carry on this valuable work. Betty Boyd continues her devotion at home as grandmother to her two grandchildren, Judah and Willa, from daughter Susanna, and has number three on the way in June from daughter Jennifer. Her Daughter Rebecca lives in LA and has a jewelry line called Gramercy Eight and Abby is a sophomore at Auburn University.

Ellen Efird Gould was excited to share that she is fully employed at this time by a company in Spartanburg called Grace Management. They are the makers of such sweetly scented products like Votivo candles, Fresh Scents and more. Her four girls are busy studying and working. Carrie is a sophomore at Sewanee College, Elizabeth works in commercial real estate at DTZ in D.C. and is taking paralegal classes, Lauren is working on her Masters in Education at College of Charleston and Katie is a paralegal in Columbia, S.C. Beth McRee Stallings gushes about the college life of daughter Mary Figuers Stallings ’14 at the University of Alabama. She loves the classes, loves the sorority life and her friends, and frequently enjoys the hospitality extended to her by Katharine Sutherland Patton. Big sister Elizabeth Stallings ’12, a junior at UVA, is spending the semester studying abroad in Singapore, and has traveled for classes and fun to Thailand, North and South Vietnam, and Cambodia. Marty Pollard Easton and husband Jim took a trip to London and had a wonderful time. Writes Marty, “I’m so proud of my

An early prototype of Susan Betts '80’s book jacket

mother Martha Munson Pollard ’51 for completing and publishing a book earlier this year called Love and Loss.”It is a memoir of coping with her grief after my father died, and is full of stories and quotations. It’s beautiful!" I, your class correspondent, continue the life of a busy empty nester. Currently, I am preparing my vegetable garden for the upcoming season and am really excited to see what this year’s seeds will produce as I purchased them all last summer on a trip to Italy. Love hearing from all of you and please don’t wait to get my emails to send your messages! Anytime is a great time to share news and photographs!

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Madeline Hutcheson Mayhood, 7441 Hill Dr., Richmond, VA 23225; madeline7@gmail.com

Laren Scott sends news from the southwest: “We continue to grow our little, organic, urban farm here in Taos, N.M. We are expecting goat kids from

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SPOTLIGHT

Ann Hardy ’80

While living in New York City in the 1980’s, Ann Hardy ’80 became tired of traveling underground to travel to work each day.

So she took her commute above ground and began cycling. That practical solution led to a lifelong passion for the sport and the creation of River City Women’s Racing in Richmond.

“For me, cycling embodies values that I hold in high regard: healthy lifestyle, environmental stewardship and freedom,” Hardy said.

In 2008 Hardy identified a need in Richmond to create a cycling organizaAligning with Richmond hosting tion to address the specific issues related the World Cycling Championships, St. Catherine's students now take to navigating a male dominated sport. biking as part of the Physical The result was River City Women’s Education curriculum.

Racing (RCWR), an amateur women’s road racing club, founded along with Emily Wilson Helmboldt.

“We felt the time was right to create a women's club where leadership was open to all members and the unique issues related to navigating a male dominated sport could be addressed,” Hardy said. “Today, we continue to realize our founding mission, to promote the health and fitness of women through the sport of competitive cycling and camaraderie.”

The gender gap in the sport of cycling is addressed in the film “Half the Road.”

Hardy brought a public showing of the film to campus earlier this year along with film director and professional cyclist Kathryn Bertine. During the school day, Bertine met with St. Catherine’s students and held a viewing for Middle Schoolers, faculty and staff. The public showing benefitted a Middle School Think Tank that provided bikes and helmets to other students.

RCWR has experienced growth in numbers and in its reach. In addition to a variety of races, RCWR is engaged in advocacy in partnerships with RVA MORE and Ride Kore and their own initiative, Yoga for Poca, a fundraiser for the Friends of Pocahontas State Park.

Cycling is experiencing rapid growth in the Richmond area as well. The city was selected to host the 2015 UCI Road World Championships, just the second U.S. city to host the event, since its beginning in 1921.

“It will put us on the world stage of sport and provide an unprecedented opportunity for us to showcase our famous southern hospitality to the thousands of visitors from around the globe,” Hardy said. our herd matriarch, Hazelnut, and a clutch of chicks from young hen Sandy the first week of April, closely followed by husband Randy’s 51st birthday and daughter Isla’s 6th. We will install two new beehives in late April, and planting will begin in late May. Then we will spend our growing season harvesting, putting food by, and taking extended rafting or camping trips to nearby areas.

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and am LOVING it, as is Isla! Randy continues with his park manager job for the Bureau of Land Management and I continue with managing the farm and making and selling farm products. My newest products are called “Love Bites” and are organic sea salted goat milk caramels. Yes, they are divine, and can even be ordered on my very unprofessional website www.lovebitecaramels. com. Currently working on legalizing the operation

with permits from the New Mexico Dairy Board, the FDA and the New Mexico Environment Department. After that, I plan to ‘go big baby!’

Remember, you knew me back when I was small and humble.” Globetrotter Nan Leake brought us this news: “I am a partner in a global private markets investment firm, Partners Group. I am on the real estate investment team and I am responsible for deal generation and business development. I’ve had a 30-year career in real estate, which has taken me to all parts of the globe. My office is in New York but I insist on living in Richmond, which makes my ‘commute’ to NYC and beyond pretty interesting, ;) When I’m not on the road, Jon and I enjoy spending time with our four legged girls, Kate and Sally, at our farm in Goochland and at our cottage at Gloucester Banks which I share with my sisters, Laura Leake Brown ’69 and Anna Leake Smith ’72.” Susan Betts reports “I sent the Norfolk Historical Society in Norfolk, Conn. a cache of old family letters several years ago which became the springboard for their 2014 summer exhibition ‘From the Mills to Main Street: Irish Families in Norfolk.’ My ancestors were the first Irish immigrants in the village.

I am now working with the Society on a project to publish our family letters, which date to 1827.”

Susan explains that the project is a book of letters, written by her ancestor George Ryan, and is due out before Christmas. It will be published by local Richmond publishing house Dementi/Milestone.

Ann Hardy manages River City Women’s Cycling in her off hours. They partnered with St. Catherine’s in February 2015 to bring writer, director and pro cyclist Kathryn Bertine to the school for a day. The event featured a public screening of Bertine’s documentary “Half the Road.” Ann explains that “the movie speaks to the blatant sexism in professional women’s sports with a greater message on equality and society.”

Thank you to all of those who came back for their Reunion in April. It was great to see so many familiar faces. We are also proud that two of our classmates spoke at Career Day, Laura Edwards and Frances Taylor McEachran. Hope to see more of you at our 40th in 2020! EDITOR’s NOTE: A special thank you to your class correspondent, Madeline Hutcheson Mayhood for hosting the reunion class party at her beautiful home in April.

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Maria Williams Swindell, 414 Alabama Rd., Baltimore, MD 21204; mtntm@msn.com

For Mary Margaret Smithers Kastelberg, it’s all about the rings this spring. Daughter Bridget 2016 received her brand new St. Cat’s ring (Mary Margaret was sad she couldn’t hand hers down, as it was stolen in NYC while in college), and son Gene, his Benedictine football ring for winning the State Championship. Mary Margaret and Berta

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Keller recently reconnected, as they both happened to attend the same software—training seminar.

Our sincere condolences go out to Berta and her sisters Bet Keller ’70 and Sarah Keller Sipe ’72 on the loss of their mother last fall. Suzy Preston and her Princeton friends “descended upon Covs,” aka Elizabeth Covington, in Telluride on their annual ski trip. Suzy now lives full-time in Santa Fe, after years of dividing time between Maine and New Mexico. For Emily Irby Grimes, “lots of great memories from our days on those slopes” reemerged after taking her teenage boys skiing at Wintergreen in February. Emily also enjoyed a fall visit to Richmond and a “very fun dinner” with Susan Crenshaw Cary, Laura Towers and Sallie Cecil Stillwell. Keeping with the theme, Julia Michael Given and family spent their spring break skiing in Maine and Vermont, and also visiting son Michael at Bowdoin College. In December, Julia and Cecelia Faulkner Soscia ran the Rehobeth, Del. marathon together “for fun.” It was, according to Julia, “my 30th marathon and 20th state in my quest to run every state." Cecelia hadn’t done quite as many, but it was great to be there together and she beat me this time!” Cecelia, along with her mother Martha Alsop Faulkner ’54 and Maura Maguire Gaenzle ’82 were part of a UVA travel tour to Turkey last fall. Writes Cecelia, “We were able to plan an engaging meeting with Evelyn Sebik, a dual citizen and a teacher in Turkey whose students worked jointly with Lisa Foster’s St. C students on a global water project during the 2013-14 school year.” Carrie Reid Russell’s interest in keelboat racing is as strong as ever, and she sails competitively “as much as my job and husband let me.” She recently spent time in Miami for Bacardi Sailing Week. Carrie’s children are both juniors—Sam, at University of South Carolina, and Helen, in high school at the Steward School. Welby Whiting Fairlie is gearing up for “Mud Run season” along with her 7 year old, James, who loves the obstacles and the mud; and he promises to join her again as long as it’s a really hot day! Classmates who were Lower Schoolers will remember Ann Martin Gonya whose family moved from Richmond after fourth grade. She and her husband Jeff live in Baltimore and are celebrating their 29th wedding anniversary this June! The Gonya family spring break in California was filled with college touring with son Jay and visiting daughter Caroline, a 2013 UVA graduate who lives in Los Angeles. Louise Sloan is hoping you’ll check out her newly launched digital media company for single parents, www.singlewith.com, and spread the word to your single-parent friends and any prospective advertisers. Louise wrote, “it’s for moms AND dads, and…the idea is to help single-parent and co-parenting families thrive. It’s been scary but exciting to take the plunge into entrepreneurship.” Outside of work, Louise said,

1981 classmates Suzy Preston and Elizabeth Covington skiing in Colorado

Welby Whiting Fairlie '81 and son James compete in the Pretty Muddy 5k Mud Run

Carrie Reid Russell '81 sailing aboard a J70

Maura Maguire Gaenzle '82, Cecelia Faulkner Soscia '81, Evelyn Sebik and Martha Alsop Faulkner '54 in Izmir "enjoying our common bond."

“life is basically about shuttling my 8 year old son Scott to various sporting events. He’s the jock my mom always wanted me to be!”Last year Susan McDonald Gaddy loved teaching as an adjunct law professor in foreclosure law at the Charleston School of Law.

graduations in the family. Her youngest, Dalton, graduates from St. Christopher’s and is headed to UVA. Elizabeth, her oldest, graduates from college and is off to Union Seminary. Her stepson Mark is graduating from Michigan State with an M.B.A. Finally, Sydney, her middle child, is a rising senior at Virginia Tech. On the homefront, Mary is celebrating her 25th year as a lawyer with McGuireWoods. Allison Walker Steilberg is in Jacksonville, Fla. and was recently named the #3 realtor for Berkshire Hathaway. Congratulations!

Her son Joe is a freshman at the University of South Carolina and daughter Charlotte is in 10th grade. She recently completed a “to the studs” renovation of her house and would love to have some visitors from St. Catherine’s! The evertalented Dana Gibson Longenderfer has a new line of fabric and wallpaper called Dana Gibson for Stroheim. It is quite gorgeous and doing well.

Dana also has two boys in high school with one soon heading for college. Kate Anthony Rogers is in Westfield, N.J., and has an embroidery personalization business that she runs out of her

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Catherine Helderman Markwalter, 1796 Meadowdale Ave., NE, Atlanta, GA 30306; cmarkwalter@gmail.com Well classmates, we all made it through a year of 50th birthday celebrations and lived to tell the tales! Kathryn Thurman LeBey reports that turning 50 and watching her two girls, St. C. Kathryn 2016 and Isabelle 2018, run track motivated her to run a half marathon in south Florida where she finished fourth in her age division. She was inspired to not only continue running but is also preparing to climb the Matterhorn with other St. C and St. Chris moms. Kathryn claims that she was not very athletic in high school but I don’t believe her! Mary Dalton Baril is preparing to celebrate three

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home. She has even had the chance to work with Dana. Nothing like a little St. C networking! When she is not running her business or chasing one of her five teenagers or her 20 year old, Kate enjoys playing tennis, paddle tennis and golf and spending her summers in northern Michigan. Boo Little Downs and her husband have just marked their 10th anniversary running the family’s school bus business. Since taking over the company, they have doubled the size of the fleet. She still manages to keep up with her 11 and 12 year olds as they sing, swim, dribble, and bat their way through the week. Nadja Reger Young survived the snowy winter in Boston and even managed to have her father come in from Colombia to celebrate her 50th. Several friends braved the blizzards to join the celebration. She and her husband stay busy fostering rescue cats, tutoring Spanish and French, singing in the church choir, and pursuing human and animal rights-related activities. Janice Kuhn bought a house in Dobbs Ferry, about 30 minutes north of Manhattan on the Hudson River.

Daughter Chelsea is quite the little skier! She is faster than Janice and loves moguls, jumps and racing. Janice is still working in the city and Gary is still teaching at Greenwich High School.

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Betsy Macon Dotterer, 7003 University Dr., Richmond, VA 23229; betsydot@verizon.net

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Windy Campbell, 6 Partridge Hill Rd., Richmond, VA 23238; windycampbell@mindspring.com

What a fantastic showing for the class of 1985 at the Reunion in April. Conway Brown Van der Wolk hosted a fantastic party at her beautiful home that Saturday night. We were also so proud of our classmates, Dede Dandrige Davis and Joy Draper.

Dede was the featured artist for the weekend and had a number of her exquisite works on display in Turner Hall. Joy was the keynote speaker at Career Day. She talked to the Upper School students about her time at St. Catherine’s and her work doing mission work as an OB/GYN in a Kenyan hospital. You can read more about her journey at www.wgm.org. Thanks for a great weekend!

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Sally Yowell Barbour, 10346 Nash, Chapel Hill, NC 27517; sallybarbour@yahoo.com and

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L to R; Bottom Row: Martha Jordan Maloney, Mary Rucker Sherman Radford, Dandridge Keyser Davis, JuliaCarr Bayler, Mary Virginia Cooper Reid; Second Row: Mary Fitzgerald Treta, Lyn Savedge Page, Lilly Hardison Bossong, Paige Conner Totaro, Ann Holden Gurkin, Anne Beebe; Third Row: Libbie Durrill Allen, Catherine Peters Svoboda, Lucy Siewers Damgard, Kemper Williams Thornton, Amy Rogers Deane, Carson Holding Brice; Top Row: Kathryn Kenny Codd, Chase Avery Wood, Karleen Vincent Gardner, Michelle Briere Finn, Heather Maguire McGuire, Maggie Boyd, Leigh Redford

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ReRe Lawrence Bernstein, 3010 Cambridge Pl., N.W., Washington, DC 20007; r_r_bernstein@msn.com and Copeland Sakowski Casati, 1941 Tower Rd., Pamplin, VA 23958; copeland@copelandcasati.com

What a busy year for many of our classmates.

From the looks of Facebook feeds, it appears there will be lots of of new college freshmen in the fall. Check in the next issue to see where everyone’s children have landed. Clarke Anderson Osborne writes that she is now representing the Honest Company in addition to Beats by Dr. Dre. If you see either of these products on TV or in a movie, you have Clarke to thank. She also reports that the highlight of the year so far has been spending a weekend in Austin with Jennifer Cleveland Elam, Catherine Rasor Burrous, Julie Caldwell Lontz and Wesie Liggett Sprunt ’88 in February. Louise Totten Knabe sends news that she is now working for a non-profit whose mission is to improve health care internationally. She is personally assisting on a project to improve childbirth in the poorest state in India and has had to travel there from time to time. Mary Deane Davis ran the NYC Marathon on a cold and extremely windy day in November and celebrated her accomplishment by getting married right after.

Congratulations on both fronts! Re Re Lawrence

Bernstein and her husband have started following SEC (Southeastern Conference) Women’s gymnastics, bringing back memories of when Re Re, Louise, Ruth Heltzer Bock and Daniella Katz White were on the St. Catherine’s gymnastics team. Re Re didn’t quite run the Marine Corps 10k as hoped, but she did run the Alexandria Family Fun Day 5k to benefit Brooke Curran Sydnor’s ’86 foundation, Running Brooke, finishing in her fastest time ever. This year’s goal is to virtually run from DC to NY, 215 miles. Friend her on Facebook to cheer her on AND to keep up with class news throughout the year.

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Susan Grymes Lafferty, 608 Beverley Dr., Alexandria, VA 22305; susan.lafferty@sutherland.com

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Cindy Levinson Lefkoff, 3034 Seventh St., Boulder, CO 80304; cindy_lefkoff@hotmail.com; and Suzanne Wishnack Morris, 402 Henri Rd., Richmond, VA 23226; morrissuzanne@yahoo.com

Hi ladies of ’89! It was a treat to hear from Brandy Wood. She reports, “In February, we took our twin girls, now 4, to northern Virginia for a visit with family, where we saw Meghan Stone Thomas and her three lovely children. We visited the National Museum of Natural History while in the area. The girls wanted to see the Hope diamond, but ultimately were more impressed with the meteorite.”

Clarke Anderson Osborne '87 spending a weekend in Austin with (from L to R) Julie Caldwell Lontz '87, Catherine Rasor Burrous'87, Louise Liggett Sprunt'88, Clarke, Jennifer Cleveland Elam '87 in February

L to R; Bottom Row: Kate DeJarnette, Ellie Brown Caplice, Missy Rainey Ferguson , Francine Brown Mathews, Lydia Baugh Hanna, Branch Harper Feagans, Rebecca Britt Phelan, Valerie Worthington; Middle Row: Leigh Addison Lesley, Abbey Lyerly Moring, Parker Spratley Jones, Emily Lyon Allen, Amanda Smith Kingsbury, Parkie Mason Stewardson, Monique Cheng Joe, Ferebee Holt Smith; Top Row: Koo MacQueen Stengle, Wendy Lawrence O’Brien, Katherine Boyette Griffith, Meghan McAuley Davis, Molly Dozier McDowell, Shade Elam Maret, Mary Kathryn Large Hoffman, Marie Huntington Slaby, Sallie Smith Sweeney

Leanna Hazzard Miller '91 with her husband and eight kids

Brandy just passed her six-year work anniversary as Marketing Manager at WBGO. In that capacity, she was a panelist during the Jazz Connect Conference in January in New York City. The topic was audience development for jazz. Brandy said, “It was exciting to be on a panel with three very interesting and experienced women from the world of jazz, moderated by a female jazz publicist. Go ladies!” Brandy was also in the throes of the kindergarten application process for her two lovelies. She said it is such a dramatic journey that Tucker Andrews Winter sent her information about a new off-Broadway comedy on the topic, written by someone she knows. Brandy lamented, ‘It is a multi-layered process and had to use spreadsheets and Google Calendar to keep it all straight!” Blair Whitley reports that she and Katrin Cisne Currens completed the Richmond Marathon in November. She said, “Although we did not run the race together (since Katrin is faster than I am!), we had a great time carpooling to and from the race!” Blair is also keeping busy substituting in St. Christopher’s Extended Day program and volunteering as part of the dog crew at Richmond Animal League. She says it is so hard not to take those cuties home with her each week. Wedding

bells were ringing in Richmond! Paige Hazell married Tee Fallen on February 22. I saw Paige after the wedding, and she is absolutely glowing.

We speak for the whole class in offering congratulations to Paige and Tee. Heather Morgan Zifchak is now a certified Jazzercise instructor in WinstonSalem, N.C. It is a perfect part-time job and allows her to spend time with her 8-year-old daughter, Mary Elizabeth. It was great to get news from Ann King Berkman. Ann said, “Oh dear, wish I could give you a birth or something fabulous from up here in Albany, N.Y. We are up to our knees in snow though! I have three little skiers, Isabella (8), Olivia (7), and Cricket (5). We go to Woodstock, Vt, on the weekends, and they ski at Suicide Six. I am the co-Head of the Lower School at Doane Stuart, an independent school where all three of the girls go.” This year’s reunion at St. Catherine’s kicked off Celebrate 125, co-chaired by none other than our classmate, Biz Elder Read. There are many exciting events planned during this year-long celebration of the the School’s 125 years of history.

Thank you Biz!

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Sallie Smith Sweeney, 409 Chestnut Ave., Towson, MD 21204; sallie.sweeney@gdit.com The Class of 1990 had a great turnout at their 25th Reunion in April! Monique Cheng Joe (read profile on page 50) and Lee Addison Lesley were among the Career Day speakers. Julia Konerding Padgett

hosted the class party and had delicious food catered by Carlisle Bannister (St. Christopher’s ’90). Thank you to all of you who came back and we hope that if you could not come to the School this Spring, you will join us next year for the 125th anniversary celebrations at St. Catherine’s.

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Maria Spalding Hadlow, 2339 Albion Pl., St. Louis, MO 63104; mariahadlow@yahoo.com (Retiring! Need new correspondent!)

Hello from St. Louis! I don’t have a great deal to report this go-around, as I think many of us are busy juggling our social and professional lives with our children’s homework and their endless extracurricular activities. Case in point, Susan Teal managed a brief trip to Charleston to visit Banner Adams this spring. Susan said it was “fun catching up with her . . . the first time ever that I had been away from my family.” LeaAnna Hazzard Miller reports that her family is enjoying the “peaceful countryside” of Louisa, Va. on a horse farm, where they “have lots of little critters and show hunter horses and ponies.” All eight of the Hazzard children have been home-schooled; the oldest, Juliette, attends the University of Alaska and their son Isaiah attends the VCU School of Biomedical Engineering. LeaAnna herself is attending school to become a naturopathic doctor, while “leading missions trips all over the world and continuing to homeschool the other six

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Nell Pittman Sutlive, 951 Dean Dr., NW, Atlanta, GA 30318; npittman@alumni.wfu.edu

Helen Mattox Bost '93 and Lucy Tanner Brewer '93 celebrating birthdays in Miami

children.” LeaAnna stays in regular contact with Deborah Bedford Roberts who just got married, and Elise Levasseur Rogers, “who is still challenging herself as an endurance horse rider.”

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Liz Booker Staub, 300 Booty Ln., Virginia Beach, VA 23451; lizbstaub@gmail.com Please send us your news!

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Page Boyette Curtin, 700 Oak Knoll Ln., Menlo Park, CA 94025; pagebcurtin@gmail.com; and

Happy, happy “big” birthday year to the class of 1993. I trust everyone has had and will have memorable celebrations for the milestone! Helen Mattox Bost and Lucy Tanner Brewer were able to celebrate together in Miami this winter, along with other Carolina friends, and had a great time catching up. Lindsay Bowen Adamson’s daughter Allie started kindergarten at St. Catherine’s this fall and is having a fantastic time. Eliza Siegel Branch’s daughter Alice also is in kindergarten at St. Catherine’s and the girls carpool together.

Lindsay continues to sit on the Alumnae Board and is taking on the herculean task of co-chairing Daisy Days 2016 as well. She’ll do a great job, I know! She also is serving on a committee for St. Catherine’s 125th Anniversary Celebration.

Lindsay writes that “a lot is happening at our School and it’s pretty exciting. After being a student and then staying active as an alumna— it’s even more fun than being a parent! Watching Allie take part in some of the same traditions I participated in as a kindergartener is really cool.

I wish everyone were closer and could see what a great place our school is these days.” Thanks to all of you who passed along news – Page and I always love hearing from everyone. Please keep the updates coming!

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Rachel Easterly Gagen, 1507 Langhorne Rd., Lynchburg, VA 24503; fortun8@comcast.net; and Julie Ann Raymer Wash, 4106 Park Ave., Richmond, VA 23221; julieann.wash@kikicollection.com

Last October Whitney Parker Kestner was inducted into the Washington and Lee Athletics Hall of Fame as “one of the finest women’s lacrosse players” in the school’s history. Kimberly Lichtenberg was featured on rocketSTEM.org for her work as a scientist and engineer who works on NASA’s Mars rover missions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasedena, Calif.

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Sophie Milam, 1324 N. Bosworth Ave. Apt 2R Chicago, IL 60642; smilam@mindspring.com

Many of the ’95ers returned to Richmond for their 20th Reunion in April. A big thank you to Laura Albertson Horn for hosting the class party. We also had a number of classmates speak at Career Day: Kirstine Wilson, Caroline Ewing Burd, Jameka Whitten, Tyler Lewis Perry, Anne Sidney Hetherington and Alice Nelson Herlihy. Great job ladies! Larissa Powers is living in Viña del Mar,

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While working on securities litigation and corporate counselling at a law firm in New York City, Monique Cheng Joe '90 started to think about her next career steps. She found herself reflecting on the words of an attorney on Career Day at St. Catherine’s.

“Way back when I was little, I used to watch “LA Law,” and then “Law & Order” and other TV shows like that," Joe said. "From those shows, everyone thought that being a lawyer means going to court and arguing in front of a jury, including me.

“When I heard the attorney from Citibank speak (at Career Day), I realized that law was not just going to court. There were other options, like working in-house at a company. That was enlightening.”

Joe returned to St. Catherine’s in April to inspire students as a Career Day speaker herself. Originally from West Virginia, Joe attended St. Catherine’s as a boarder for four years.

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"My freshman year, I had to work really hard to even feel like I was on the same playing field as the rest of my classmates, but my eventual success in high school with the help of the wonderfully supportive teachers at St. Catherine's really helped shape the person that I am today," Joe said.

And Career Day undoubtedly shaped Joe. The words she heard as a student led to a decision to move to California.

She first worked in-house at Fox Family Worldwide, which was bought by Disney. Joe worked for Disney for two years supervising and protecting trademarks and intellectual property and then moved to NBCUniversal for 11 years where most recently, she was Vice President, Trademark Counsel. In this position she helped to take logos to new and unexpected places, including using the recognizable “minions” from “Despicable Me” to promote “Despicable Me 2.”

In her newest position at DreamWorks Animation as Head of Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Joe oversees a variety of intellectual property issues, including Shrek. She is also finding that maybe her rusty Chinese that she started learning at St. Catherine's, as one of the first students to take courses in the language, is finally coming in handy. DreamWorks is among the studios trying to enter the Chinese market.

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L to R: Sarah Marriott '95, Sarah’s husband Christopher Cooney, and Vanessa Conlin '95 at Dana Estates where Vanessa and Christopher work together. They are surrounded by Sarah and Christopher’s triplets: Theodore, Eleanor, and Sophia.

Chile, busy working towards her next adventure.

She recently spent a month exploring the south of Chile. Her next trip will be to the north, to a wonderful place with bright, starry skies: Valle del Elqui. Waiting tables is hard work and she is now interviewing for many editing positions. Her goal is to continue to explore Latin America. You can find her on Facebook and she welcomes visitors to the “End of the Earth.” For the past year, Anne Hulcher Tollett has been building a free and fun interior design resource. (annetollett.com) With the help of Marie Bouquet Ayers, Anne’s team has created a website that makes interior design accessible to everyone. Through 3D renderings, clickable buying guides for every item in the room, and to-scale floor plans and elevations, anyone can now enjoy the perks of an interior designer without the cost. Be sure to check out the site — it even allows people to submit their own rooms for a chance to be re-done by Anne herself.

Anne Wilkins completed two century bike rides for charity in October. For those who don’t know, that means 100 miles each! She also ran a half marathon in San Diego in January and a 14 hour trail relay in April. Megan Evans Matthews and family relocated to Dallas in December for a job opportunity with her same company, JLL Commercial real estate. Megan has been with JLL since we left college. Megan reports that they miss Atlanta but are getting settled quickly in Dallas and are very happy there. Laurin Merrick Armfield is still loving the charm of small town life in Blowing Rock, in the mountains of North Carolina.

Laurin is a realtor with Blowing Rock Real Estate and invites all the St. C girls to come buy a vacation house, or at least come visit. As a reminder of what a small world we live in, Vanessa Conlin is now working with Sarah Marriot’s husband out in California. Vanessa has been working for several years at Dana Estates, a beautiful winery in Napa Valley. Sarah’s husband, Christopher Cooney, was recently hired as the winemaker. As for yours truly,

L to R; Bottom Row: Robin Stevenson Saxton, Elizabeth Heindl Gannaway, Khendra Peay, Megan Evans Matthews; Top Row: Tyler Lewis Perry, Kayte Bauss Steinbock, Kelly Dalch Spraker, Marie Bouquet Ayers, Laura Albertson Horn, Jameka Whitten

Sophie Milam, I moved to Chicago last summer to start a masters program in public policy at the University of Chicago. I’m hoping to transition away from legislative policy work and do more policy research and evaluation so I went back to school to develop quantitative analytical skills (i.e. lots of statistics and economics). It’s really weird being back in school after so much time off — especially doing Calculus for the first time since the mid 1990s—but I’m loving it.

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Anne Stokes Bowman, 1900 Shoreham Dr, Charlotte, NC 28211; annesbowman@gmail.com; and Robyn Melzig Broughton, 1001B N. Daniel St., Arlington, VA 22201; robynmbroughton@gmail.com.

Congratulations to Laura Spratley Birdsey who is settling into her role as Director of Alumnae Relations. How great is it to have one of our own heading up the Alumnae office?! Since Laura is quite busy in her new role, I have volunteered to help Robyn Melzig Broughton as a class correspondent. It was fun to collect news from our classmates and there are lots of exciting things to report. Maria Tucker Frostic and her husband Pete are heading to Costa Rica with their three boys for the month of March to surf, practice yoga and explore a new place. Then later in the spring, Maria will begin a new career as a birth doula at an amazing birth center in Bozeman, Mont. And speaking of new careers, Renee Charity Price and her family are moving to Princeton, N.J. as she takes on her new role of Head of Middle School at Princeton Day School. They are so lucky to have

her and we know she will be missed greatly by everyone at St. Catherine’s. Renee invites us all to come visit and check out the amazing school as well as the “little university nearby that has some pretty historic origins.” Continuing on with job news, Macon Hubard Clarkson was excited to be made a Partner at her investment firm this year.

However, she is infinitely more thrilled to send her oldest daughter to the St. Catherine’s JK class of 2029 in the fall. We had several expanding families in the class of ’96. Heather Pergrossi Collins and Randy finalized the adoption of their three youngest daughters in July 2014 bringing their total to five daughters! Victoria McMakin Wei and Ben welcomed baby boy Dayton William Wei on December 26, 2014. Big sisters Lorelai (6), Haven (4), and Margaux (2) are great little helpers...most of the time. Austin Lane Kane and Jamie welcomed Caroline Ivey Kane on October 1, 2014. James (5) is enjoying being a big brother. Austin also switched jobs last year and is now a Research Faculty member at Virginia Tech but she gets to work from home, which is great. Sarah Hovis Dickinson and John are living in Larchmont, N.Y. and keeping busy with Thomas (4) and Lea (2). She also writes an awesome book blog, Sarah’s Book Shelves, which is my go-to source for book reviews and recommendations. www.sarahsbookshelves.com Sarah and I got together with Rendall Harris, Annie Palmore Witthoefft, Robyn, and Erin McKittrick Shaw for a mini-reunion in Charleston in February. We had a great time catching up and it got us especially excited for our 20th Reunion next year. We hope to see you all there!

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Holly Ziskal Habimana ’98 (left) and her husband Boris (right) with Ambassador to the UN Andrew Young (center)

Tovia Martirosian Smith ’98 hosted a playdate with the children of her other 1998 classmates. L to R: Katie Collier Poole's children Wilde, Lily, Parker, Carrington Alvarez's child Lourdes, Lang Robertson Liebman’s child Emma, Tovia Martirosian Smith’s children Tovia and Lee, Ashley Sauer Oswalt's children Coleman and Grace.

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Sara Chapman Waechter, 4511 Bromley Ln., Richmond, VA 23221; scwaechter@live.com

We have exciting news to report this spring.

Elizabeth Murchison Rüedi and her husband, Yvan, welcomed Henry Campbell Rüedi on February 23, 2015. Henry joins big brother Albi.

Elizabeth and her growing family are doing great.

Lucy Williams Hall and her husband Rudd have been living in Virginia Beach with their two pugs since November of 2013. In December of 2014, Lucy completed her master’s thesis in Political Science and graduated from the University of Rhode Island. She is currently the COO of Democratic GAIN, a professional association for those who work in progressive politics, but is in the process of transitioning into something new.

Lucy has been taking improv classes for the past year and recently performed to a sold out audience at the NorVa in an all-female sketch comedy show, “Panties in a Twist.” Cameron Miller Rivinus is enjoying working at a startup in San Francisco

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Andrea Budzinsky Garvey’98’s four children, Jack (6), Henry (4), Magnus (20 months) and Madeline (8 months)

dedicated to teaching, inspiring and enabling creativity among young women and girls. She loves that she is part of the growing “Maker Movement” that is reinventing how we think about commerce, creativity and the convergence of the digital and physical worlds. Cameron, Sara Rudlin Kilkenny and Tatem Webb Read recently had a wonderful catch-up in San Francisco and Mill Valley with a spa day, hiking and lots of pool time. Alice Buchanan Scott has recently made a career change into real estate and reports that it has been a great transition. She is a realtor with Long and Foster in Richmond. Please keep the updates coming! We would love to hear from more of you this fall.

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Sarah Redmond, 39 E, Bellefonte Ave. Alexandria, Va. 22301; sarah.d.redmond@gmail.com

Hey, ladies. Hope everyone is doing well! We have lots to report. First, we have bunches of announcements about babies. Teisha SmithHarrison and her family are still in Pittsburgh; they had another baby boy, Breccan Smith Kennedy, on Sept 24, 2014. He was five pounds, and he is a delightful happy baby. Whitney Jenkins Fogg has a new(ish) baby: Madeline Browning Fogg was born on July 23, 2014, and is absolutely adored by her older brothers Jackson and William. Catherine Ellen Thomas and her husband, Derek, welcomed Christopher Winthrop Thomas into the world on September 10, 2014. He is a great joy in their lives.

The Class of ‘98 also has several exciting professional and geographic updates. Andrea Budzinsky Garvey became Deputy Director of Government Relations for the Maryland Department of Human Resources, which runs all social services like adoption and foster care. Her husband Patrick deployed in March to be the Naval Inspector General in Qatar. They welcomed their first girl, Madeline Grace Garvey, last July, so now her pack

includes Jack (6), Henry (4), Magnus (2) and Madeline (8 months). They are stationed in Annapolis, Md. Annie Byrd Hamnett recently brought on a partner at ByrdHouse Public Relations—her name is Cat Taylor, and she was one of Annie’s old interns. They are excited to grow the business, and they have some really fun food and hospitality clients at the moment. Annie and her husband Matt are still loving living in Charleston, and they recently purchased a lot to build a home in Mt. Pleasant. Sarah Gricus Marshall and her family have moved to London and are enjoying their time there. Sarah reports that her 6 year old Aidan already has an English accent! Holly Ziskal Habimana and her husband were lucky enough to meet Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, who was a civil rights leader with Dr. King and is an icon in Atlanta. Also, her organization The African [SOUP] was recently awarded a grant that will allow them to buy solar panels, an essential source of power since they are 18 miles off the electrical grid in Uganda. Lauren Fegley Huneke has been working since 2011 on a program with Veterans Affairs to develop housing for homeless Veterans and Veterans at-risk of homelessness. The program’s efforts have helped develop 1,000 apartments to date, with another 200 that should be under construction shortly. Lauren also helped her employer launch its Mid-Atlantic Women’s Business Network. The organization sponsors several professional development events every year and creates programming around women’s career needs. Lauren and her family bought what they believe to be their forever home in Old Town Alexandria. I, your class correspondent, also just bought a home in Alexandria, two miles from Lauren and one mile from Laura Tripp Philips; it’s great to have a mini-St.C community in Northern Virginia. I am still teaching at Georgetown Day School in D.C., and this July, I will be finishing my M.S.Ed in School Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania in the hopes of being a Principal, Head of School, or Dean of Faculty in the coming years. Can’t wait for the next set of updates!

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Lindley Harding Stakem, 505 Park Hill, Charlottesville, VA 22902; lindleyhs@gmail.com

Lauren Glass O’Connor and her husband welcomed a new baby girl on January 4, 2015 named Virginia Burke “Nia” O’Connor. Big sister Kate is loving her nursery school – about 1/3 of the students are British, so she’s ready to burst into song on “Jerusalem!” Mary Bennett Moran also welcomed a new baby, with John MacIntyre “Jack” Moran arriving on September 22, 2014 and are doing well as a family of four. Short list of updates this round for our Class of ’99! Keep in touch and send me pictures!

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Perry “Parks” Everett Turner IV, son of Ginny Sutton Turner '01 and Rhett Turner

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Elizabeth Irwin, 314 East 9th St., Apt 6, New York, NY 10003; esirwin@gmail.com The Class of 2000 has, as always, been very busy since the last update! Since her move in the fall, Maria Ball Cloud has been loving Atlanta— especially since it means she gets to see Nicole Dicharry Jordan and Maggie Temple Bailey so much more. Maggie and her husband Matt jumped into parenthood with both feet when their twin girls Madison and Carter arrived in November. Catherine Powell and her hubby Jason are still frolicking in marital bliss down in Jackson, Miss. Catherine loves her job working as the Assistant Director and College Advisor at a nonprofit devoted to removing barriers for underrepresented students in the college admission and financial aid process. Ann Robertson Vaughters is keeping herself busy with work, charity events, and lots of activities with her girls Elsie Jane and Lee. Over the holidays, the Vaughters girls got lunch with their godmothers Ibbie Hedrick and Elizabeth Irwin. When not doting on her goddaughters, Ibbie has been spending a lot of time with her new dog Ruckus, an adorable beagle from the Richmond SPCA. Elizabeth had a far too quick (but very delicious) Christmas brunch with her aunt Eleanor Deane Bierbower ’75 and her cousins on her way to Richmond for the holidays to get away from all the NYC craziness! After running her first half marathon in New Orleans in January (with Dede Deane Irwin ’68 and Louise Irwin Welch ’96 cheering her on), Elizabeth signed up for another year of fundraising for the Alzheimer’s Association as a part of their annual Blondes vs. Brunettes flag football competition – go Team Blonde!! Catherine Mason Hammer loves teaching 7th Grade World History at St. C, and Lindsay Cowles Arrington’s business is booming!

Her wallpapers were featured in “House Beautiful,” and she recently launched a line of

L to R; Bottom Row: Maggie Temple Bailey, Megan Gross White, Jennifer Abbott Temple, Rebecca Gricus; Top Row: Leigh Bladergroen Glatt, Ruthie Burke, Catie Blair Wilton, Elizabeth Irwin, Ibbie Hedrick

pillows, cummerbunds, and bowties. Lindsay got married in October 2014, with classmates Kate Marshall Stikeleather and Becca Logue Thomson as bridesmaids. For someone who claims to have “nothing to report,” Becca sure seems pretty busy to me! Taking a break from running about London with her munchkin Georgia, the whole adorable Thomson fam went with Becca’s mom to Scotland for Spring Break. Oh. And they just bought a house in Wimbledon—is anyone else up for a trip to watch some tennis with the Thomsons?? Just outside of Richmond, Ashley Taylor Jaffee and her husband Mike welcomed their sweet daughter Naomi Michelle in October. The Jaffees live in Harrisonburg, Va., where Ashley is an Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education at JMU. Further south, Megan Gross White and her family —including new baby girl Holland, born February 2015—are moving to Durham for her husband’s fellowship at Duke University in July.

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Evan Garrison, 303 S Blvd., Apt. 10, Richmond, VA 23220; garrison.evan@gmail.com; and Ida Trice Vaclavik, 2111 Wisconsin Ave. NW, #602, Washington, DC 20007; idatrice@gmail.com The class of 2001 is still working hard as always with more school, interesting jobs and new kids.

Sung-Joo Lim is doing postdoctoral research in Neuroscience and Psychology in Leipzig, Germany. Alexis Martirosian is working in D.C. as an associate at law firm Venable LLP. Natalie Martirosian is in San Francisco. Tess Leppert Huggins is still living in Nashville, Tenn. She has started a new job as an Acute Care Nurse

Lindsay Cowles '00 and Thomas Franklin Arrington III married Oct. 18, 2014

Practitioner in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Vanderbilt Medical Center. Tito and Kendall Priddy Harrison have settled in Charlottesville where Kendall is working as an R.N. at the UVA Intensive Care Unit and Tito is in medical school.

Clark and Kate McCormick Dugger and their baby girl Mae still live outside Charlottesville. Rob and Candice Domayer Ellrich welcomed another baby — she is very busy keeping up with two kids under 2. Alex and Ida Trice Vaclavik are also busy with

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School friends and classmates had occasion to catch up and celebrate over the holidays. L to R; Front row: Lucy Williams Hall ’97, Mary Mason Williams Foukal’01, Sarah Lawson Breeden ’01, Natalie Martirosian ’01, Susanna Taylor ’01, Alexis Martirosian ’01, Kate Starke ’99, Stuart Landin Harms ’00, Louise Hallberg McCool ’01, Ellie Dew ’03; Back row, L to R: Rachel Perlstein ’01, Alice Worrell Nickels ’02, Keller Sutton Strandberg ’02, Eliza Hickey Heywood ’01, Winston Blair Schroeder ’01, Ann Kamps Kramer Taliaferro ’01,Virginia Satterfield ’01, Holly Dew Roper ’01.

their baby Libbie and a move back to Richmond.

Ginny Sutton Turner is still coaching field hockey at Davidson College but now has one or her own to coach; her son Parks. Elizabeth Westbrook Truluck is excited for her niece Molly to attend St. Catherine’s in the fall. Your class correspondent, Evan, just finished my second and most rigorous year in dental school at VCU/MCV. I took my Hippocratic Oath and received my white coat— I’m ready to finish my last two years in school seeing my own patients.

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Keriann Boone, 1202 Southways, Delray Beach, FL 33483; heykeriann@gmail.com; and Margaret Norfleet Weismiller, 124 Longvale Road, Bronxville, NY 10708; margaret.norfleet@gmail.com Mia Petrini has completed all requirements for her Master of Public Health at George Washington University.

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Whitney Adams, 3318 Fait Ave., Baltimore MD 21224; whitneycolvinadams@gmail.com

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Carter Augustine Warren, 6113 Bremo Rd., Richmond, VA 23226; carterpaugustine@gmail.com;

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Mimi Kennedy Harris, 15 Sheridan Sq., Apt 1A, NYC 10014; mimi.kennedy1@gmail.com; and Ann Tripp Carlson, 1007-H North Hamilton St., Richmond, VA 23221; attripp@gmail.com Sarah Hite Kennedy and her husband, Whitner, welcomed a new member of their family on January 21. Baby boy Joseph Whitner Kennedy, IV “Jay”, is doing great. Sara Seward is currently living in Richmond, Va. with her dog, Charlie.

Since graduating from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in June 2014, she has been busy building a health coaching practice. She is very passionate about living a healthy lifestyle, as well as helping those with their wellness or nutritional needs.

Mimi Worrell is working as a Reading Specialist at Alexandria Country Day School in Alexandria, Va. Mary Childs is still in NYC and writing for Bloomberg News, covering asset managers. She moved to West Village last year and loves visitors who don’t mind that her apartment is the size of their kitchen. Catherine Ellen Thomas is pursuing a Master’s in Acupuncture at Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts in Asheville, N.C. Katie Jenkins is working as the English as a Second Language (ESL) Program Coordinator at Stratford University. The University purchased the curriculum that she wrote in the spring of 2014.

She lives in Springfield with her two cats Fiona and JJ. Katie Eckert married Dr. Hann-Hsiang

The wedding of Tyler Hetzer Burr '05 to William Fauth Burr in Hot Springs, Va. last August

“George” Chao on Nov 15, 2014 in Richmond, VA. In attendance were 2004 classmates Ann Miller Flippin, McKenzie Karn, Julie Sihiling, and Sarah Brooks. Two 2004 graduates experienced high school flashbacks in early March, participating in X-Term, the experiential learning opportunity that we remember as Minimester. Elizabeth Johnson was excited to have two St. Catherine’s seniors visit her in Manhattan for their X-Term internship.

They toured her office at GQ in the new World Trade Center, and enjoyed sandwiches while looking out at the Statue of Liberty and the frozen Hudson River. Ann Tripp Carlson traveled to India with her husband, an upper school math teacher at St. Chris, and 15 St. Catherine’s and St. Christopher’s students. She is enjoying her first year as a 4th grade teacher and track coach at St. Chris. We hope that all of our other classmates are doing great and look forward to hearing from you soon!

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Tyler Hetzer Burr, 2300 Valley Dr., Alexandria, VA 22302; vthetzer@gmail.com; and Anne Porter, 1812 35th Street NW, #210 Washington, DC 20007; anneporter87@gmail.com Lots of exciting news to report from the class of 2005! We had a great reunion. Liz Wilson Marion spoke at Career Day to the Upper School

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L to R: Mary Doswell, Katie Doswell ’06, Meredith Doswell ’13, Lindsay Doswell Forston ’04, Will Forston, Cabell Doswell ’11 Ali Doswell ’13, and John Doswell

L to R; Bottom Row: Leslie Elmore, Aimee Forsythe, Catie Finley, Alekhya Uppalapti, Jordan Schaeufele; Top Row: Laura Warmke, Mary Clark Lind, Elizabeth Jeffress Thorsteinson, Anna Starnes, Catherine Purdy

students. She talked about her years in the film industry and her new job as Director of Operations for Elite Innovations, the premier MakerSpace in Wilmington, N.C. Special thanks to Rebecca Kasper for hosting the class party on Saturday night at her parents' home. Rebecca is now Finance Director for the reelection campaign for Jon Tester, United States Senator from Montana. Last summer she adopted a black lab/ Shepherd mutt named Sawyer. She loves taking Sawyer on long walks around D.C. and having play dates with his bud Winston. Anne Porter is working at the National Audubon Society and had the amazing opportunity to visit her sister Caroline Porter ’06 in Nepal this past February.

“It’s been awesome to see St. Catherine’s support and generosity to help fund special projects at the orphanage where Caroline volunteered.” Tyler Hetzer Burr married William Burr on August 9, 2014 at the Hetzer’s home in Hot Springs, Va. with many Saints in attendance. The Burrs are new homeowners and love spending time with their black lab Winston. Tyler looks forward to chaperoning a trip of St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School sophomores to an orphanage in Romania next March. Lauren Snead Bell married Win Bell in August 2013 at Tuckahoe Plantation. They moved to Virginia Beach and love spending time with their black lab Jackson. Lauren was looking forward to a trip to DC in April to visit classmates.

Alexandra Dahl moved into regional operations at ACE Group and is responsible for managing their Corporate Risk Space for the Texas and Louisiana region. She is embracing the Texas culture by

learning to play golf and passing her free time at the local ice house with her new cat Peter Brooks.

Shelley Campbell married Matthew Ference on October 4 at the Lewis Ginter Recreation Association in Richmond, Va. They are planning a two week trip to Iceland in August. She is working at the engineering firm of Burns and McDonnell, is a new homeowner and enjoys spending time with their dog George. Angelyn (Angie) Thomas moved to Columbia, S.C. and is now Business Development Manager at the South Carolina Power Team, an economic development alliance representative of power companies across the state. She gets back to Charleston as much as she can. Katherine Helm married Benjamin Traynham (class of ‘04 at St. Christopher’s School) on August 23, 2014 in Richmond, Virginia. They now reside in Alexandria, VA with their dog, Gracie.

Aubrey Lawrence was so sad to miss the ten year reunion, but sent her best from the beaches of Antigua where she spent her honeymoon. Lissie Cain is still loving Charleston, S.C. where she’s been since graduation. She quit her job of three years at Arcadia Publishing to help her friend Lauren Clawson expand her own dog walking company, Charleston Dog Walking Company (www.charlestondogwalkingco.com). She’s loving being outdoors all day and being her own boss. Brittny Smith lives in McLean, VA and works at Booz Allen Hamilton. Leslie Elmore is working at SoundExchange in Washington, D.C. as a music licensing analyst, working with music services such as Pandora, SiriusXM, and iTunes Radio. She recently got a promotion to begin working on

direct licensing, private contracts in the music licensing market. In her free time, she works on community-based projects related to choreography, movement and dance. She recently got back from a festival in the mountains of West Virginia, where she taught movement and dance classes during a blizzard! Alexandra Bassett Musto and her husband Chris moved to England in September for a two year international assignment. They have been taking every opportunity possible to travel Europe, and spent their first wedding anniversary in Florence, Italy where they originally met! Emily Miller loves being back in Richmond preparing to graduate from VCU’s Brand Center for Advertising. Cheers to all that we have accomplished since we graduated ten years ago! Where has the time gone?

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Janie Coleman, 3815 Garfield St. NW, Washington, DC 20007; janeanncoleman@gmail.com; and Preston Wright, 1701 Park Avenue, Richmond, VA 23222; elizabeth.p.wright@gmail.com SO GOOD to hear from all of you! It took us nine years to come up with these notes so READ CAREFULLY: Margaret Clinard is living in Nashville studying web and software development. Katie Fletcher McGinley and husband Brandon have a daughter, Teresa, and are buying a new home in Pittsburgh. Friends say motherhood looks great on Katie. She is America’s own Kate Middleton.

Katie Harris is working hard in her first year at Harvard Business School. Anna Jo Smith is in Boston as well surviving Harvard Medical School and the snow. Julz Anderson Kerr is also anxious for the snow to thaw. She moved to Cleveland with husband Rhorie after he was assigned residency in ENT at the Cleveland Clinic. Julz and Rhorie live with their English bulldog, Tully. Julz teaches harp and piano lessons at the Fine Arts Association and works in the development department. Katie Doswell graduated from the

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UNC School of Dentistry in May. She plans to complete her three years of residency in orthodontics in Chapel Hill. Shelby Catlett graduated from UVA School of Medicine in May and Emily Martin is still traveling. She plans to visit 30 countries by 30 and is on 27! Sarah Page Waugh graduated from the UVA School of Law in May and will join the firm of Moore & Van Allen in Charlotte, N.C. Courtney LaPaglia Finch earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, in molecular and cell biology. Blair Revercomb graduated in May from Georgia Tech with a Master in City and Regional Planning. Oriana Hargrove is enjoying a new communications job in D.C. working for health, education, government and non-profit clients. Janie Coleman, Emily Bruner and Julia Berg LOVED catching up with Sue Baldwin at the Saints alumnae event in D.C. Margaret Reynolds Jones and husband Will married this past October and love life in Austin with their two Corgis, Grover and Elmo. Ellen Watlington has been working for KIND Snacks in New York for the past four years- as a hobby she is pursuing an M.B.A at Baruch College of the City University of New York. After getting her Master of Health Administration from Georgetown University, Taylor Whitworth moved to Boston and is working at a pharmaceutical research and consulting firm as a Research Associate. She does yoga EVERY day and is considering becoming an instructor. Kate Maxwell Rennolds and Hampton Lamb Boyko are in Richmond and have recently become lawyers (good to know!) Sazshy Valentine is enjoying being a first year student in the Master of Counseling program at Wake Forest University (also good to know!) Emily Kusiak adores living in Richmond and continues to enjoy working as a registered nurse at VCU Health System. Preston

Travel with St. Catherine’s!

BARCELONA AND LA COSTA BRAVA MARCH 5-12, 2016

Las Ramblas, the Sagrada Familia, Antonio Gaudi; Picasso Museum and more. Includes day trip to La Costa Brava.

THE RIVIERA AND COTE D’AZUR JUNE 2016

Nice, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Vence, St. Paul de Vence, Grasse, Villefranche and more.

Prices will be announced in the fall.

A portion of the price benefits the School’s Scholarship Fund. For more information, contact Pam Sexton at pam@fashionperspectivetours.com or 804.501.6605.

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L to R; Front Row: Betsy Luke, Jennet Dickinson, Kristen Luke, Laura Fitzgerald, Mackenzie Lyn Furman; Middle Row: Jane Upshur, Graceann Pike, Kimber Karn, Sarah Smith, Anne Carter Blankenship, Kate McDowell

Wright loves teaching kindergarten in Richmond.

She received her Master of Education from the University of Richmond last summer. On the West Coast, Garland Potts is living in Seattle working for the Seattle Times doing graphic design. We hope to hear from the rest of y’all for the next issue! Please contact us with any exciting updates (or if you just want to get together). Cheers!!

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Eliza Blackwell, 6700 Hanover Ave., Richmond, VA 23226; eblackw@clemson.edu; and Margaret Shaia, 196 Old River Rd., Apt 310, Lincoln, RI 02865; margaret.shaia@gmail.com Margaret Paul recently joined the Emerging Markets team of Live Oak Bank in Wilmington, N.C. Mary Elizabeth Scott married Christopher Thomas Piacentini on March 7 and many Saints were in attendance. Among them were Maya Blankenship, Eliza Blackwell, Lauren Snead Bell ’05, Kenzie Karn ’04, Hannah Bagby, Courtney Brannan, Margaret Paul, Margaret Shaia Peixoto, Frances Miller, Martha Wright, Katie Carleton, Anne Carter Blankenship ’10, Grace Flatin, Ella Smith, Ashley Davey, Haley Worthington, Kimber Karn ’10, and Abby Parker.

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Caroline Kasper, 412 South 15th St., Apt 2F, Philadelphia PA 19102; carolinekasper212@gmail.com

Last summer Lauren Snowden White traveled to Doha, Qatar for a research collaboration. Lauren is a Ph.D. candidate at VCU for nanoscience and

nanotechnology and has had her first paper published.

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Allie Gullquist, One Columbus Pl., Apt. N-21-B, New York, NY 10019; agullquist@me.com; Liz Carleton, 102 Penshurst Rd., Richmond, VA 23221; ehc9pb@virginia.edu; and Parks Daniel, 4106 Dover Rd., Richmond, VA 23221; prksdaniel@aol.com After graduating from University of Virginia’s Curry School in May 2014, Liz Carleton is teaching kindergarten at Chadwick International in Incheon, South Korea.

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Mamie Robertson, 16 Bridgeway Rd., Richmond, VA 23226; robertsonm14@mail.wlu.edu; and Jane Taylor, 4207 Sulgrave Rd., Richmond, VA 23221; jane.d.taylor@vanderbilt.edu Andrea Joel writes in, “I now live in Las Vegas and I work at The Palazzo front desk!” Also out west, Jennet Dickinson began the physics Ph.D. program at University of California Berkeley in September 2014. Sarah Smith has been made a full account executive at Leo Burnett Advertising.

The Class of 2010 enjoyed their very first St. Catherine’s Reunion. Special thanks to Laura Fitzgerald for hosting the class party at her parents' house. Elizabeth Berry represented us well as the only class of 2010 speaker at Career Day. We hope to see more of you at the next Reunion or next year to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the School.

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Cabell Doswell, 6010 St. Andrew’s Ln., Richmond, VA 23226; cdoswell2@elon.edu; and Polly Ukrop, 6024 St. Andrew’s Ln., Richmond, VA 23226; poukrop@davidson.edu Kari Ann Roynesdal will soon graduate from the UVA School of Architecture. Lacy Jennings has been accepted into VCU’s accelerated nursing degree program.

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Marshall Moore, Box 870, Elon University, Elon, NC 27244; marshallmoore93@gmail.com; and Emily O’Connell, CSU 5047, PO Box 8793, Williamsburg, VA 23187; evoconnell@verizon.net The Class of 2012 has been busy in their junior years! Many have chosen to spend a semester of this year abroad often in Italy, France or Prague.

I (Marshall Moore, your class correspondent), was one of those travelers, spending my fall semester in Tanzania volunteering at Rift Valley Children’s Village. Currently Lizzie Stallings is studying at the University of Singapore and traveling throughout Asia. Other classmates have taken on new roles in their schools. Both students at William and Mary, Audrey Scruggs was recently elected Vice Chair of the Honor Council and Raven Baytops as a Senior Admissions Interviewer. Callie Wright was recently elected to the position of Musical Director of the Virginia Belles, UVA’s female a cappella group. With regards to our athletes, Darice Etienne has had a successful and fun year as a cheerleader for the VCU Rams Basketball Team while Kaki Jennison has had a winning start to her lacrosse season at Duke University. Amongst this class Lindsay Hawk has become an entrepreneur, starting Urban Choice Mushroom Farm, an organic Mushroom farm selling at the St. Stephen’s farmers market and to local Richmond restaurants. Peyton Smith was named co-captain of the William and Mary hockey team.

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Ann Prideaux, Peddrew-Yates Room 122, 610 Washington St., SW, Blacksburg, VA 24060; abp@vt.edu; and Franny Blanchard, Campus Box 28280, Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Rd., Winston-Salem, NC 27106; blanfh13@wfu.edu

The Class of 2013 has had a successful semester in college. Alex Najarian received the opportunity to perform in The New Studio On Broadway’s rendition of “The Apple Tree.” Jessie Jennison also performed on Northwestern University’s mainstage production of “Wild Party.” Alex McEachin got an internship at Proenza Schouler. We also

Marshall Moore ’11 spreading the 125th love in Tanzania volunteering at the Rift Valley Children’s Village

Alumnae Katherine Maloney '13, Mary Lowman '11 and Colby Bedell '13 performed in James Madison University's Contemporary Dance Ensemble MainStage show, New Voices in Dance this past spring.

The Class of 2014 came back to campus to talk to ninth and tenth graders in May. L to R: Kathryn Threatt, Richie McGuire, Kristina Caesar, Meredith Thomas, Ann Carter Herbert, Mary Stuart McGuire, Rachel Millman

have girls studying abroad: MacNair Jennings in Prague and Bettina Geissbuehler will be in Reutlingen, Germany for two years to complete the Elon University’s Dual-Degree Program.

Eleanor Siff wrote a grant establishing an education area in Southwestern University’s Community Garden. Ali Doswell and Meredith Doswell were featured in an article in the New York Times, confirming that they are killing it in basketball at Amherst College. Kyle Liggan was accepted into the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Rosemary O’Hagan received a grant to go to Tanzania to conduct research on clean water. Hazel King interned at the literary agency Kneerim, Williams & Bloom and she also got her first short story published.

So, it looks like 2013 is taking over the world, just like we planned. Please keep us updated as important and exciting things happen!

impacted their schools athletically. Lâle Hergüner was on American University Women’s Volleyball club team and was chosen from her team to compete in the Nationals Club Volleyball Tournament in April. Libby Nelson was asked to be co-president of the University of Mississippi’s Women’s Lacrosse team for the next three years.

Hannah Powell and the swim team from Washington and Lee won their eighth straight conference championship. Emma MacLeod was named conference rookie of the week for both field hockey and lacrosse this year at William & Mary. Along with sports, the class of ’14 has also excelled in the arts. Kathryn Threatt danced in Georgetown University’s MLK Day service and Mary Stuart McGuire was assistant stage manager for Elon University’s production of “In the Heights.”

But above all, our class continues on with its leadership positions. Fraser Mayberry was elected to her sorority’s executive board as Chief Panhellenic Officer where she serves as a delegate between her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, and the rest of the school. Julia Warren is continuing her nonprofit, Celebrate!RVA from Ashland and is looking to expand in the next few months. This summer, Hannah O’Neil will be studying abroad in Scotland, and Liza Blackburn will be studying in Ireland. We hope our grade finishes with a strong first year and hope everyone has a wonderful summer!

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Fraser Mayberry, 3941 Reed’s Landing Circle, Midlothian, VA 23113, frasermayberry@go.rmc.edu Ellie Wallace, 10 Canterbury Road, Richmond, VA 23221, elliewallace@verizon.net

It has been an exciting and busy first year at college for the Class of 2014! Many of our girls have

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Maggie Temple Bailey '00’s twin girls Madison and Carter

Kate Marshall Stikeleather '00’s daughter Elizabeth “Elle” Mae Stikeleather

Adoptions Ida Trice Vaclavik '01's daughter, Libbie

Megan Gross White '00’s children, Eli and new daughter Holland

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Tanner Gibson and Steven Neibert, a son, Tanner "Keene" Neibert

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Cozy Joseph and Alec Coleman, a daughter, Marguerite Valk Coleman

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Austin Lane and Jamie Kane, a daughter, Caroline Ivey Kane Victoria McMakin and Ben Wei, a son, Dayton William Wei

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Cameron Miller and David Rivinus, a son, Edward "Ned" Miller Rivinus Elizabeth Murchison and Yvan Rüedi, a son, Henry Campbell Rüedi Lauren Wagner and DJ Palagi, a daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth Palagi

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Andrea Budzinsky and Patrick Garvey, a daughter, Madeline Grace Garvey Catherine Ellen and Derek Anthony Thomas, a son, Christopher Winthrop Thomas Susan Jefferson and Paisley Boney, a son, Thomas Easton Boney Whitney Jenkins and John Fogg, a daughter, Madeline Browning Fogg Teisha Smith-Harrison and Ryan Kennedy, a boy, Breccan Smith Kennedy

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Bettie Antrim and David Dansby, a daughter, Dorothea Lee “Dolly” Dansby Molly Bennett and Mark R. Moran, a son, John MacIntyre “Jack” Moran Keely Fox and Adrian Fadrhonc, a daughter, Elizabeth "Ferris" Fadrhonc Lauren Glass and Stephen O'Connor, a daughter, Virginia Burke “Nia” O’Connor Jill Hutchens and John Norris, a daughter, Corbett Norris Laird Roach and Frank Rosser Gough III, a son, Frank Rosser Gough IV

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Britt Childs Staley '01's daughter, Annie Staley

Catherine Ellen Thomas '98's son, Christopher Winthrop Thomas

Ashley Taylor Jaffee’s daughter, Naomi Michelle Jaffee

Teisha Smith Harrison '98's baby boy, Breccan Smith Kennedy

Catie Wilton '00's daughter, Hadley

Elizabeth Murchison Rüedi '97 and her husband, Yvan, welcomed Henry Campbell Rüedi, joining big brother Albi

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Catie Blair and Judson Wilton, a daughter, Hadley Blair Wilton Kate Marshall and James Stikeleather, a daughter, Elizabeth “Elle” Mae Stikeleather Ashley Taylor and Michael Jaffee, a daughter, Naomi Michelle Jaffee Maggie Temple and Matt Bailey, twin daughters, Mary Madison Bailey and Catherine Carter Bailey Megan Gross and Peter White, a daughter, Holland Montgomery White

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Susan Mason and Christopher Golden, a daughter, Ann Arey Golden

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Sarah Hite and Whitner Kennedy, a son, Joseph "Jay" Whitner Kennedy IV

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Elizabeth Gay and Nicholas R. DeMatos, a son, Oliver Dematos

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Britt Childs and Brendan Staley, a daughter, Anne Birch Staley Candace Domayer and Rob Ellrich, a boy, Robert Mason Ellrich Ida Trice and Alex Vaclavik, a daughter, Elizabeth “Libbie” Palmer Vaclavik Mary Mason Williams and Andrew E. Foukal, a son, Carrington Williams Foukal

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Lots of St. Catherine’s alumnae celebrated the wedding of Mary Beth Scott ’07 to Christopher Thomas Piacenti; L to R; Front Row: Hannah Bagby ’07, Margaret Paul ’07, Frances Miller ’07, Martha Wright ’07, Katie Carleton ’07; Back Row: Maya Blankenship ’07, Eliza Blackwell ’07, Lauren Snead Bell ’05, Kenzie Karn ’04, Courtney Brannan, Mary Beth (bride), Margaret Shaia Peixoto ’07, Anne Carter Blankenship ’10, Grace Flatin ’07, Ella Smith ’07; Not pictured but also in attendance: Ashley Davey ’07, Haley Worthington ’07, Kimber Karn ’10, Abby Parker ’07

Wedding of Caroline Ewing Burd ’95; L to R: Catherine Titus Lowe ’95, Megan Evans Matthews ’95, Anne Hulcher Tollett ’95, Sarah Cutchins Ewing ’93, Claiborne Ewing Yarbrough ’87, Rebecca Hoggan Frazier ’94, Alice Reynolds Livingston ’95, Caroline, Kelsey Burd, Kelly Dalch Spraker ’95, Laura Ferrell Gardner ’94, Kirstine Wilson ’95, Carolyn Stettinius Rankin ’95

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Memorials Alumnae 1933

Em Bowles Locker Alsop

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Martha Courtney Hoge

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Mary Evans Ayer Rachel Watkins Lynge Left: Margaret Reynolds ’06 marriage to Will Jones in Richmond.

Va. Her St. Catherine’s bridesmaids pictured, L to R: Sazshy Valentine ’06, Nancy Gottwald ’06, Margaret (bride), Janie Coleman ’06, Preston Wright ’06, Eugenie Valentine ’06 Below: Marriage of Katherine Helm ’05 to Benjamin Traynham

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Elizabeth "Bitsy" Perry Marshall to James Hillsman

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Margaret Forsyth Bushnell

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Kathleen Parrish Stringfellow Natalie Smith Whitney

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Marjorie Hornbeck Francis-Zaman

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Anne Rose Cronly Elizabeth Myers Winton

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Nancy Graham Hitch Nancy Crutchfield Merrill

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Mary Gibbon Hallett

Mary Deane Davis to Linda Kennedy

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Paige Hazell to Tee Fallen

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Deborah Bedford to Bryn Alun Roberts

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Caroline Ewing to Kelsey Burd

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Tucker Bayliss to Wyatt Andrew Deal

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Florence Steinacker to Benjamin Yang

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Kathleen Eckert to Hann-Hsiang Chao

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Katherine Helm to Benjamin Traynham Shelley Campbell to Matthew Ference Aubrey Lawrence to William Thomas Moore

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Margaret Reynolds to William Jones

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Mary Beth Scott to Christopher Thomas Piacentini

Katharine Roy Cunningham

Virginia Lee Hunt Ann Oldham Kirk Minnie Bassett Lane

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Cynthia Anne Billings Anne Burwell Gardner

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Elizabeth Smith Abse

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Carol Gill Jones

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Frances Scott Rossmassler

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Betty Reed Belden

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Mary Buford Creecy DuVal

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Charlotte Mooney Milnor

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Mary Katharine Ravenel

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Mary Porter Johns Martin

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The Rev. Dr. Martha H. Giltinan

Virginia Ginn to Captain Forrest Bradley Davis Lauren Paige Johnson to John Feldmann

Julia Stout

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Faculty and Staff Sarah Georgie Walton Patricia Brooks Stewart

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“St. Catherine’s has been educating the women in my family for more than 100 years. My mother, Antoinette Theirmann Hart (pictured above) was a Miss Jennie’s girl, class of 1916. My sister, Nan Hart Stone ’43, and I both graduated from St. Catherine’s in the 1940s. My daughters Lindsay Belew Paul ’75 and Kathy Belew Carr ’83 are alumnae, and my great-nieces Lindsay ’09 and Celia Stone ’15 are graduates too! I am deeply grateful for the opportunities and experiences the School continues to offer me and my family.

In honor of my mother, I am pleased to support St. Catherine's through a charitable gift annuity which will benefit the next generation of young women.” — Kitty Hart Belew ’45, newest member of The Arcade Society

Planned Giving Program

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Celebrate your legacy by joining The Arcade Society, which honors planned gifts to the School. For more information please contact Deborah Dunlap ’70, Director of Development, ddunlap@st.catherines.org, or Judy Carpenter Hawthorne ’75, Senior Development Officer, jhawthorne@st.catherines.org, or call them at 804.281.7141. If you have already included St. Catherine’s in your estate plans, please let us know.

boarding memories

by Dixon Christian

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he idea for Boarders' Bistro at St. Catherine’s came out of my experiences growing up in a boarding school and then going off to live and learn in boarding schools.

I came home from being born to live first at one end of a dormitory and then in the rectory at an all-girls Episcopal boarding school. My father was its president and chaplain. I then went off in the ninth grade to a series of three all-boys boarding schools. Out of all this boarding life experience came a keen appreciation for the times when people outside of the confines of boarding life, with all of its limitations and regulations, had opened their homes and hearts to me.

I had a motive — all I needed was opportunity. In 1988 my wife, Kate Roy Massie Christian ’60 and I built a house at 101 Maple Ave., right across from what is now the Kenny Center. Part of the design was a room large enough to serve as a photography studio, classroom and meeting room. It was here that for 18 years I taught my senior seminar, The Examined Life, created and nurtured the publication Forum, and where Boarders' Bistro was born in 1989.

Every weekday afternoon the boarders watched the day students leave the campus, going home, often in their own cars, free to choose occupations and associations without regard to 80 or 90 "sisters" and the Schools' rules and regulations. The case for a mid-week out of school boarders' break was clearly made! Boarders' Bistro — an off-campus catered meal of gourmet quality food along with an entertaining, informative and fun program — was our response.

All of this had to be squeezed into the time after sports at 5:45 p.m. and before study hall at 7 p.m.

The meals were uniformly wonderful and were enthusiastically received by the girls. Dessert was always “Doves” (small chocolate covered ice cream bars). A full meal plus 12.5 Doves was the record!

“Lovely faces in soft focus, blemish smoothing color,” recalling makeup artist session, October 13, 2003.

Dixon Christian has contributed to St. Catherine’s as host, mentor, educator, and visual artist. His sense of fun and fancy was apparent in promotional posters for the Boarders’ Bistro, and the “Fine food/Great Patrons” theme ensured a sense of community and entertainment. Together with his wife Kate Roy ’60, Dixon invited neighbors and friends to help.

The programs were an eclectic collection of distracting and useful experiences.

Dances of all sorts were featured — 30s and 40s, swing dancing, Latin, Israeli, Russian, a version of the Lindy hop and belly dancing. Programs also included massage therapy, yoga, palm reading, tarot cards, magic, juggling (a room full of tennis balls flying in every direction), Tai Chi, karaoke (competitions were held between halls and singing took place in the dining hall), how to dress, how to put on makeup, hair and skin care, self-defense, modeling and why you don't want to be one, caroling, the list goes on. Several times Bistro expanded its programs and offered ice cream sundaes on Sunday afternoons on the Green, followed by ultimate Frisbee games.

There were three regular offerings every year. There was a "welcome back" swim party program in the fall, a photography program where photographs were taken of every boarder both as headshot and with roommates and/or hallmates (soft focus was used and everyone looked beautiful and romantic or scary, or whatever they wanted to look like), and a "goodbye to seniors" pool party marked the end of the Bistro year.

Over the first 15 years, hundreds of meals were served, six to eight programs were offered, and Bistro rolled on! In the final years until 2007, the format changed and far simpler programs were offered. In the last year only four boarders remained and we had quiet suppers that were ordered out and board games and discussions plus some photography and swimming took place. And then they were gone. We miss the boarders and the Boarders’ Bistro!

Preserving the past for the future: St. Catherine’s is committed to preserving the history and community of its boarding alumnae. If you have treasures and memories to share, please contact Sarah Martin Hergüner ’77, school archivist, at sherguner@st.catherines.org.

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CELEBRATE LeT'S

SAVE THE DATE October 1, 2015 Celebrate 125 Family Picnic January 29-30, 2015 Athletic Hall of Fame April 15-16, 2016 Reunion Weekend & Upper School Career Day April 16, 2016 Party Through the Decades Stay tuned for more details as this celebratory year unfolds.

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