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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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