al um n ae now Carrie Clement Banwell, Susan Norman McAlister, Weedie Brandon Stowers, and more! More on Sallie — she and her husband Charley have moved to Alexandria for Charley’s new position leading Episcopal High School. We will miss Sallie’s presence in Richmond in so many ways! Aurelia is now the Director of Strategic Marketing at The Oakwood School. Her daughter is a sophomore at Vanderbilt, and her son is newly graduated from UNC and working in Houston. Dana Smith Bagnall taught at Exeter Cathedral School for about five years and now does counseling at home for students and writes travel articles for UK newspapers. In the winter of 2015 she went to Bucharest, Romania, and Riga, Latvia. Her husband has taught at ECS for 30 years and will retire in December 2016. They have no children and travel often, especially around Europe. She still writes poetry and essays and is involved in many community activities. Sarah Gibson Wiley reports that her children are “all off the payroll!” Ella Smith ’07 has moved back to Richmond from D.C., Sally Smith ’13 lives in Santa Monica, Calif., and Coleman lives in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Sarah went to visit him last winter and skied for the first time in 15 years. She was skiing black diamond slopes again in no time. Sarah has a new business, Huger Memories, helping preserve cherished memories with fabric art on pillows, seat covers, in frames and more. After 15 years as the Lower School Admission Director at St. Anne's-Belfield in Charlottesville, Gib Brockenbrough Staunton also has a new business. She has started Staunton Career Advisors, working primarily with young adults under 30 to find a field matching their aptitudes and interests. And she helps them to navigate the job search process. Susan Gaddy was selected for the Diversity Leaders Initiative at Furman University’s Riley Institute. Louise Sloan writes that after 22 years in NYC she made a bold change and moved to Barrington, R.I., with her son Scott (5th grade). She lives up the hill from the Narragansett Bay. Louise is on staff at Brown University as the deputy editor of the alumni magazine. Elizabeth Cabell Jennings finished an Executive M.B.A. program through Brown University and IE Business School. Through the program she traveled to Cape Town, South Africa and Madrid, as well as Providence, R.I., to Brown’s campus. Is this a trend?? So many classmates using their time in new and rewarding ways! Will I be next? Maybe it’s time to think outside the box as the kids leave the nest. My daughter Margaret works in D.C. for a political media company (what a year for that!); Michael is a senior at Bowdoin College in Maine; Helen is at UVA (and really enjoys her home away from home three miles from us); and our 16 yearold, A.J., just got his driver’s license and enjoys going to the local “Cookout” more than my home cooking. That’s way more than enough about me
— let me know what’s new with you, especially those I didn’t hear from for this issue.
35th Reunion, April 21-22 Catherine Helderman Markwalter, cmarkwalter@gmail.com One thing is certain, the class of ’82 is very busy these days! Susan Griswold Herst and her husband are empty nesters and just moved to a new house. Susan says it is a Cape Cod on an acre with loads of sun so she is testing her inner farmer by installing six raised garden beds and a chicken coop. Her oldest, Ben, works for the Paulson Institute in Chicago under Henry Paulson, a "think-and-do tank” studying US/China economic and environmental sustainability. Alex is finishing an engineering degree at N.C. State, and Charles is happily ensconced in Boone at Appalachian State. McKenzie Reed van Meel is another proud parent. Her daughter, Madison, agreed to sign in November 2016 to row for SMU next year. She and the other committed women rowers were the only athletes honored and allowed to do a little “Blind Side action”: they walked on the field with the football team before the first home game of the season! While visiting SMU they caught up with Maura Maguire Gaenzle’s daughter, Margaret ’14, at the first SMU Boulevard tailgate party of the football season. Margaret will be a senior when Madison is a freshman, so they overlap one year. Any other SMU connections out there? Kathryn Thurman LeBey’s oldest, Kathryn ’16, graduated from St. Catherine’s in May and is now at Davidson College. Her husband, Daniel, started a new job after 18 years at the same firm. Isabelle, her younger daughter, started a new school and they got a puppy. It is the year of change for the LeBey family! This July, Kathryn was lucky enough to go out with Lauran McDowell Johnson, Spencer Bowles Broadbent and with Susie Barret, who was visiting Richmond from her home in Florida. Susie, in addition to being a hospice nurse, is now the owner/manager of two hospice facilities in South Florida. Cabell Jones Blair married Andrew Blair in June at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Goochland. “We went to Amelia Island, Fla., for our honeymoon and now live in Wyndham.” Dudley Percy Olsson reports that her oldest daughter Lanier is living and working in Seattle. Her family has had fun visiting her out there. Dudley's other daughter Maja is a junior at Warren Wilson College near Asheville, also a beautiful spot. Dudley is running for re-election to her local school board. Let’s wish her luck! As for me, Catherine Helderman Markwalter, I am far from an empty nester. My kids are in 4th, 5th, and 7th grades. My oldest started a new school in the fall and we moved from the only house my kids have ever known. Quite a process! Years ago I promised
L to R: Courtney Overcash Kilpatrick ’85, Ashley Brinson Cusack ’85, Dede Keyser Davis ’85 and Liza Kenan Howell ’85 spent a weekend get-away in May 2016 at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla.
the kids a dog when we moved and they have held me to it. So new house, new school, new puppy. Hope to see you all at reunion!
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Betsy Macon Dotterer, betsy.dotterer@joynerfineproperties.com
Margaret Sloan Trainer writes, “Please contact me if any of you are heading to Ocracoke and the Outer Banks. Would love to see you. With vacation rental property, we are spending more time in Ocracoke than Washington these days, but are loving it.”
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Heather Hettrick Brugh, hhb4103@gmail.com Please send us your news!
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Windy Campbell, windycampbell@mindspring.com
Last Spring, several ’85 alumnae, Martha Jordan Maloney, Julia-Carr Bayler and Kathryn Kenny Codd, met up in Richmond for a special tour of historic Agecroft Hall, a 17th century Tudor manor house. The tour was appropriately led by former St. Catherine’s history teacher, Jane Howells, who now serves as a tour guide at Agecroft. “As she always did in our St. Catherine’s classes, Mrs. Howells made history come alive for us!” said Martha. The tour was organized by Kathryn’s sister, Anne Kenny-Urban ’83, who is the Executive Director of Agecroft. Kathryn and Anne’s mother, Anne Whitfield Kenny ’51 also joined the girls for the tour. Sarah Armstrong Hamlin enjoys life in Dallas, but is keeping her Virginia ties strong! Sarah reports that her daughter, Liza, is at UVA and living with some “wonderful Richmond girls and a STC alumna, Kemper Young ’15.” Back in Dallas, her sons, John and Henry, are in 11th grade and 6th grade, respectively. Sarah keeps in touch
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