Sweet Briar Alumnae Magazine | Vol. 89, No. 2 | Fall 2019

Dear Sweet Briar alumnae and friends, At Sweet Briar, leadership is based on the lived experience of the women it has educated and graduated. Our alumnae have been leaders who have rolled up their sleeves and gotten things done, without thought about who gets the credit. ln doing so, they have been effective decision-makers, problem-solvers, collaborators and morale boosters — and above all, they have been “useful citizens.”

I believe leadership can be defined and taught, and I believe that Sweet Briar is just the kind of place where that can happen, which is why I launched our leadership core curriculum. At the base of the core is the effort to habituate in the minds of our students the skills of problem-solving, decision-making and ethical thinking, as well as the logical and expressive ability to persuade. Not coincidentally, these are also the fundamentals of a liberal arts education.

Last year, we rolled out the first six courses of the core, including Design Thinking and The Mindful Writer, and this year will see us launch the final four courses.

Good leaders must have an understanding of financial resources and goals. In Dollars and Sense, students learn from economic history, institutional economics and entrepreneurship so that they’ll be prepared to advocate for themselves and the organizations they lead. In Decisions in a Data-driven World, students engage with data-rich topics from a variety of fields such as health, science and technology and political science to develop the ability to reason and work with data, and understand and present arguments supported by quantitative evidence.

Contemporary Ethical Questions asks students to address complex issues using the frameworks of philosophical ethics and apply these diverse perspectives to propose solutions for questions for which there are no clear-cut answers. Finally, in the culminating capstone of our leadership core, the Consequential Citizen, students will travel to presidential locations in Virginia where they will learn through lectures, conversations and from primary documents about the principles that undergird American leadership. These principles will inform their leadership as women in the 21st century.

I hope you’ll take the opportunity to attend events around the country and talk to our students about these courses and what they’re learning. Further, I hope that you’ll support the core curriculum, and the College, by making regular donations to our annual fund. Together, there’s nothing we cannot do.

Sincerely,

Meredith Woo

President

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MAGAZINE

This magazine aims to present interesting and thought-provoking news about the College and its alumnae. Publication of the material does not indicate endorsement of the author’s viewpoint by the College. We reserve the right to edit and revise all material that we accept for publication. If you have a story idea or content to submit for publication, contact the editor, Amy Ostroth, at aostroth@sbc.edu.

Magazine Staff Amy Ostroth, Editor Clélie Steckel, Director of the Sweet Briar Fund SilverLining Design, Lead Design Cassie Foster Evans, Photographer Contributors: Janika Carey ‘10, Jane Dure ‘82, Alexandra Grobman ‘12, Sarah Lewis, Kathleen Placidi, Suzanne Ramsey, Sybil Slate Contact Information Office of Communications P.O. Box 1052 Sweet Briar, VA 24595 434-381-6262 Office of Alumnae Relations and Development P.O. Box 1057 Sweet Briar, VA 24595 800-381-6131 Parents of Alumnae If this magazine is addressed to a daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address at your home, please email us at alumnae@ sbc.edu with her new address. Thank you!

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CONTENTS 2 Opening Doors

Internships open doors to a world of possibilities. At Sweet Briar, we call on our network of alumnae, parents and community partners to help us create professional opportunities for our students.

8 Welcome, Dean Garrett!

Chemistry whiz and hobby cyclist Teresa Garrett has joined the Sweet Briar community as Dean of the College. Holla, holla!

Visions Come to Life in VCCA Fellows’ CORE 150 11 Student Art Class

Sweet Briar students are benefiting from our close relationship with the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. This time, they learned from three VCCA fellows in a cross-disciplinary course that challenged them to dream up land art installations.

14 Joshua Harris: Expressing Himself Through Music

Dream job? Check. Joshua Harris knew 20 years ago that he wanted to teach at a place like Sweet Briar College.

Briar Leadership Core Takes Young Vixen Home 18 Sweet to Guatemala Eleven years after leaving Guatemala, Sweet Briar student Ruth Lechner ’21 finally returned home this summer for an internship.

24 A Half Decade of Sweet Work

After five years, Sweet Work Weeks has become a favorite tradition for our alumnae.

32 Sweet Briar Reunion 2019 36 A History of Boxwood House

Check out pictures from the best weekend of the year!

As Boxwood Alumnae House approaches 100 years young, we look back on this iconic building.

44 Building Sweet Briar

In 2019, Sweet Briar lost a beloved member of its campus community: Charles “Chuck” Kestner. Learn more about his legacy.

DEPARTMENTS the 20 On Quad 38 Giving

43 InMemoriam 95 Donor Honor Roll 46 Class Notes

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For many of us graduating from college, getting that first job was difficult. Employers want experience, after all, and how do you get that while you’re still a student?

One answer? Internships.

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— Ann Ashley, Biltmore

Dini serves as president of the family office and vice chair of the board at Biltmore. Through that role, she has made it possible for several Sweet Briar students to take part in the company’s corporate internship program.

Ann Ashley, who heads up the internship program at Biltmore, knows just how important internships can be to students who are looking for that first job. “To see on an application that a student has done an internship can give them a leg up in the experience category,” says Ann. “Internships can give students experience in their major, but more than that, students also gain experience working in a business environment. For young people who have spent most of their lives in an educational environment, the transition to a corporate atmosphere can be difficult. Internships help ease that transition.”

Biltmore is an incredibly diverse organization and as such, the company has several internship programs that hire more than 100 hospitality interns each year. But the program Sweet Briar students have been a part of is much smaller and requires a recommendation from an owner or a company executive. A few years ago, in response to a request from the College, Dini offered to sponsor two Sweet Briar interns each year.

Annabeth Griffin ’18 was one of the first students to take advantage of the opportunity for an internship. Today, she’s employed by the company. A Dallas native, Annabeth came to know Sweet Briar through her sister, a member of the Class of 2014. Annabeth wanted to have the same amazing experience her sister had.

Annabeth was finishing up her first year in March 2015 when the school announced that it would close. She became part of a group of students who actively worked to keep the school open. She was a class liaison to Saving Sweet Briar and promised that if the school stayed open, she’d be back for her sophomore year. When school started in the fall, Annabeth jumped in. “I felt the charge to be involved and take ownership of my school,” she says. She got back into riding, fall 2019

Sweet Briar’s Office of Career Services is committed to building relationships that help students get practical experience while they’re on campus and open doors as they get ready to take the next step into the professional world. “Employers are looking for students with strong communication skills, customer service experience, problem solving abilities and research experience. Internships and work experience allow students to hone those skills,” says Barb Watts, who leads the office.

And while colleges and universities all over the country have internship programs, the quality of those programs is largely determined by the quality of the partnerships the institution forms with organizations who are willing to take on interns.

Fortunately for students at Sweet Briar, the College has developed a number of relationships that lead not only to internships before graduatio, but also to jobs after graduation.

One of the most prestigious relationships the College has built is with The Biltmore Company in North Carolina.

This is partly because Dini Cecil Pickering, the great-granddaughter of George Vanderbilt, who built the estate, is also a member of the Sweet Briar Class of 1979.

“To see on an application that a student has done an internship can give them a leg up in the experience category.”

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Annabeth Griffin ‘18 in front of Biltmore

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stepped up to lead the Campus Events Organization and was captain of the Ethics Bowl team. She was an economics and philosophy double major and a math minor. “I didn’t mean to be a math minor, but took so many random classes that I only needed to take two more to have a minor, so I did.”

It’s that passion and curiosity that made her such a good fit for the Biltmore internship, which she did for two summers: both before and after her senior year. When she first heard about the internship, she was confused; she wasn’t a hospitality major, after all. She visited the Career Services Center, where she talked to Luther Griffith — at the time, Luther was volunteering in the office, but these days he’s serving as the College’s vice president for finance, operations and auxiliary enterprises. Luther told her the internship was a good opportunity to

learn about how big companies work and helped her prepare for the interview.

“The spots are coveted,” Annabeth says. “And they place you exactly where your interest lies. I told Ann about my work with campus events, so she placed me with the special events office. It was exactly where I needed to be in the company.”

“We don’t really care what their major is,” Ann confirmed. “What’s important to us is character. We want somebody who exhibits a match with our core values and also has academic prowess. Annabeth is a great example of that.”

The experience was everything Annabeth hoped it would be. Nervous in the beginning, she was respectful of the system and of the company. She listened a lot and learned about the company and why it is so successful. Her best advice to young professionals? Learn the corporate

culture. “The way you act and portray yourself is everything,” she says. “You can have a great idea, but they’re going to remember who you were.”

Of course, Biltmore isn’t the only place where Sweet Briar students are able to get internships and early-career employment.

A number of engineering students have interned and gone on to get jobs with Naval Air Systems Command, often referred to as NAVAIR. The relationship Sweet Briar has with NAVAIR started with an alumna and a Sweet Briar parent.

Lance Tucker’s daughter, Lacey, is a member of the Class of 2020. When Lacey was looking at colleges, Lance tagged along, as parents often do, and learned all about Sweet Briar’s engineering program.

He was so impressed by the program and its students that he decided to add Sweet Briar to the colleges he visits as part of his official recruiting duties for Cherry

Point. The head of the recruiting department at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland is a graduate of Sweet Briar who regularly attends the Federal Career Expo at the College, helping to further expand opportunities for students.

Samantha Schwartz ’13, ’18 works as a mechanical engineer at the Fleet Readiness Center East in Cherry Point, N.C., in the subsystems department for the V-22 Osprey. Her department focuses on tubing and hoses, the fuel system and the aircraft’s windscreens. “We do maintenance and production support, but also fleet support,” she tells us.

Sam started out at Sweet Briar as business management major with an engineering minor and graduated in 2013.

But after being in the business world for a few years, she realized that she was more drawn to engineering jobs, so she went back to finish her engineering degree, which she completed in 2018. Her work with the Osprey is a dream come true.

She’s seen the Osprey do demonstrations

at airshows, which she attends with her father, and also watched them fly while she was working in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. “You just have to try not to stop in the middle of the road and watch them,” she laughs. “I still get that feeling working with them here every day.”

She says her hands-on experiences in Sweet Briar’s Margaret Jones Wyllie ’45 Engineering Program really prepared her for professional work as an engineer, particularly the senior capstone project. The capstone project gives students the chance to work on engineering projects with organizations outside the College. During the project, Sam says, “You can run into communications issues and issues understanding exactly what other people want.

I remember complaining to Dr. Yochum and Dr. Brinkman about that and they would just say that we would all thank them for the experience one day. This is probably a major ‘I told you so’ moment for them,” she says about her current job

at NAVAIR. “I think every engineer who graduated from Sweet Briar would agree that the most useful experience you get at Sweet Briar is working with other companies and getting that real-life experience.”

In fact, this year, Sweet Briar’s capstone students are working on two separate projects for NAVAIR. Lance says the capstone projects will give students another level of understanding about the work that happens at the station. “We’re always looking for technical ability, and we’ve been very happy with what Sweet Briar students know,” he says. “But a lot of what we look for is how they handle themselves. They need to be able to present projects to people from shop

Want more?

Check out our video of Sam’s experience on the Margaret Jones Wyllie ’45 Engineering Program’s homepage.

Samantha Schwartz ‘13, ‘18 at NAVAIR

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standing) with Amherst and Nelson County personnel to admirals. Sweet Briar’s engiSchools define student-teaching opportunities, neering students are organized and present and a new yearlong residency program is making themselves well.”

Did you it possible to place M.A.T. students in classrooms His first intern recruit was Sarah Caknow? for an entire year. hoone ’18, who went to Cherry Point in Sweet Briar College Molly Harper ’19 and Morgan Rayno ’20 are the summer after her junior year and was is one of just two both at Amherst County High School through then offered full-time employment after she women’s colleges the residency program. graduated. Since then, they’ve hired several in the country with It’s been great, Morgan says, but not without students at Cherry Point and several more at challenges.

“Although I’ve been in classroom Patuxent River. an ABET-accredited settings before, I haven’t been an actual stu“The quality of the interns from Sweet engineering dent-teacher before,” she admits. “I’m currently Briar has been very good,” Lance tells us. program. student-teaching with a teacher who is doing “They’re capable and self-confident. They’re only government this year, so I’m with all seniors. not afraid to speak their mind and hold their Three out of the five classes she teaches are ground when they need to. Being in Sweet co-taught, as many of the students have IEPs [Individualized Briar’s small environment helps them to do that.”

Education Program]. I have learned a lot about accommodating Every engineering major is required to complete an internand servicing those who need just a little extra help.” ship, and obviously internships often lead to employment, so It’s early in the year, Morgan recognizes, so there’s a lot she has the relationship with NAVAIR has been a real boon to Sweet yet to learn. But she’s already picking up on some core concepts.

Briar’s engineering students. “I think over the last three years, “I have learned that building relationships, or at least building we’ve hired about half of Sweet Briar’s engineering graduates,” a positive rapport with the students, is important to everyone’s Lance says. success,” she tells us. “Mutual respect and communication is Practical experience is especially important for teachers. key, especially with the older students.”

Sweet Briar has had a Master of Arts in Teaching program For Emily Hawk ’18, M.A.T. ’19, the training wheels, so to since 2005 and recently bolstered its undergraduate offerings speak, have already come off. Last year, she student-taught at by launching a B.A. in elementary education and teaching. Of Amelon Elementary School. This year, she has her own Kindercourse, undergraduates who have pursued teaching certificates garten class at Central Elementary School in Amherst. Staying and M.A.T. students at Sweet Briar have always incorporated in the same school district was a deliberate choice. classroom experiences into their curriculum because hands-on “I was so impressed by the leadership of the county that I learning has been central to Sweet Briar’s mission from day one. decided to apply for a job here, hoping that I would get one at a Starting this fall, however, new MOUs (memoranda of under-

school I was familiar with,” Emily tells us. “In my earlier years in the education department, I had a few practicums at Central Elementary, one with a Kindergarten teacher named Ms. Murphy. When they called to offer me the Kindergarten position, I was thrilled! I walked into my classroom and, low and behold, I was now the Kindergarten teacher in Ms. Murphy’s room, the same room I had been a practicum student in years before.”

Each day, Emily is responsible for a lot of little things that make up a big part of her students’ development: from teaching ABCs and finally, how to read, to educating them about their emotions, about how to be a good friend, and how to tie their shoes. The day starts with breakfast, followed by math, writing, lunch, recess, reading, snack, content, recess and resource.

“I think the biggest challenge has to be controlling 18 5-year-old bodies at once,” Emily says. “It is impossible, and it took me a few weeks to learn that even when I am doing my VERY best, someone will still want to do something else. I think

the very best part came the first day I had a sub. I left my class in someone else’s hands and when I came back, every single one of them came running over to me and gave me the biggest hug I’ve ever had.

That is what makes it worth it.”

It’s hard to believe Emily never saw herself as a teacher. Growing up, she wanted to be many things, she remembers: a nurse, a veterinarian, a dolphin trainer even. “But if you had told 10-year-old me I would be a teacher, I would have laughed,” she says.

Perhaps Sweet Briar’s education program had a hand in steering her in the right direction, too — or at least reinforcing that teaching is, in fact, the right path for her.

“I had a wonderful M.A.T. experience,” Emily says. “My classes with [Assistant Professor of Education] Meredith McCool really helped shape me into the educator I am today. They reminded me I was human and that may be the greatest lesson I learned. Certainly I learned about pedagogy, curriculum and how to implement assessment and instruction as my other new colleagues did, but I

learned how to let things roll off my back, and when to let go and go home at the end of a day. Since I was in my student teaching placement for the entire year, I had a whole picture view of life as a teacher. I got to see the good, the bad, and it made me realize that every day matters, but each day does not define you.

“Teaching is hard. It is not what I expected. I think that having your own classroom is something no amount of training can prepare you for since each class that comes through your door is totally different than your last. Each day brings new challenges and sometimes there is no way to anticipate them, but ultimately that is what makes the job so fun!”

Emily isn’t alone at Central. This semester, there are three elementary education candidates from Sweet Briar who are placed at Central two hours a week for their field experience, Meredith says.

She’s excited: “I am looking forward to popping into Emily’s classroom when I’m visiting my current students at Central — and to the day when I can place our teacher candidates in Emily’s classroom!”

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Emily Hawk ‘18 in front of her classroom

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Dean Garrett!

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Teresa came to Sweet Briar from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where she most recently served as associate dean of the faculty. She also grew up in Poughkeepsie, but headed south during high school and attended Florida State University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in biochemistry.

“Like a lot of science- and math-minded individuals, I went into my undergraduate degree thinking I was going to be a medical doctor,” Teresa says. She went to college with enough credit to begin as a sophomore. When she arrived, the pre-med advisor started talking about three years of college, taking the MCATs and going straight to med school. That’s when she “freaked out,” Teresa recalls. “I remember the darkness of the sky outside of his office during that conversation,” she says. She took an honors chemistry lab the following semester in which she did original research. This turned out to be the first step on her professional path. While working in the lab that semester, she was paired with a faculty member who was doing RNA research. Teresa found that exciting, and the experience taught her a lot. “I was a total lab nerd from that point on, and all thoughts of med school went right out the window,” she says. “That’s where I learned to be a research scientist.”

She joined a new lab that summer and stayed in it for the rest of her undergraduate experience, earning authorship on two peer-reviewed papers.

Following Florida State, she went to graduate school at Duke — along with

Chris, and the two married after their first year. At that point, Teresa planned to get a Ph.D. in biochemistry, do a high-profile post-doctoral fellowship, get her own research lab and win a Nobel Prize in chemistry. High ambitions!

While pursuing her degree at Duke, Teresa studied lipids from E. coli with an amazing mentor, Chris Raetz. “He had no trouble dealing with my rapid-fire questions about everything,” she told us. “And that was everything I love about science.

Working with him was a great experience.

He let me take risks and gave me hard things to do because he assumed I’d be able to do them.” And she did.

After three years of grad school, however, she realized that there was no natural place on the road to the Nobel Prize to have children and she had to make a choice between pursuing that dream and having a family. She chose family and defended her dissertation at the end of her fourth year when she was eight months pregnant.

She went back to the lab after the birth of her daughter, but found that she missed being at home, so she stopped working and was mostly a stay-at-home mom for almost five years. “The decision to stop working was lonely because it felt like no one else had ever found a way to navigate their way back,” she remembers. “But that’s not true. Lots of people do it; they just don’t talk about it.” When she went back to work, she was surrounded by people who had not taken time off to be with their children, but she doesn’t regret

her choice: “I had a deep desire to be with my children.”

When she returned to work, she did some part-time teaching at Duke in the School of Nursing and taught a 6-week intensive course for medical students.

Ultimately, she worked with her Ph.D. mentor on a new endeavor where she served as the project manager. She also taught undergraduate biochemistry in the summer.

In 2007, she returned to her hometown to become a faculty member at Vassar — her first full-time position. She brought with her a research program on studying lipids in E. coli and collaborated with undergraduates. In fact, she was drawn to Vassar because of the ability to work closely with students while being a researcher and teacher.

It was while she was at Vassar that she entered the world of higher education administration. She came to that because of her work with assessment. The college had been directed to do a better job with student assessment and that work gave her the opportunity to jump into the deep end of administration and manage some change on a college-wide level. She’s proud of her work and of the way she was able to support junior faculty. She sees her role, then and now, as being an elevator of people, helping them to be successful and do good work.

That philosophy has become an important part of her life and it’s one of the reasons she has come to Sweet Briar. In addition, she’ll have more opportunity

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Teresa Garrett has a small painting of a cow on her wall, a recent purchase from the Amherst County Fair. The painting is an outward manifestation of the dean’s embracing of Sweet Briar. She arrived on campus in July — with her husband, Chris — once again making the deanery home to the College’s academic dean.

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to interact with students. Although she enjoys her work in administration, it has taken her away from students. She is excited that there are lots of opportunities to change that at Sweet Briar. “I’m a teacher and mentor at heart and I’m committed to supporting students and helping them to be amazing,” Teresa says.

“It’s not just about teaching content. The content isn’t the priority; the students are. I don’t want the Office of the Dean to be the place students come only when they’re in trouble. I want the office to be a place where students can get support.”

And knowing that she’s made a difference to students is what makes the work meaningful for her. “There have been moments where I have really seen that I’ve made a difference in a student’s life — when they’ve come back to me and expressed gratitude for what they’ve learned and for her being there. The impact we have as educators may not ever come into the consciousness of students — or it may come far down the road. But that’s okay.”

arts curriculum is central to the core of Sweet Briar and will also launch our students into success.” In fact, although she’s a scientist, she defines herself as deeply creative — her research fires her imagination and she is saddened by the fact that society often devalues creative professions.

In addition, she’s glad to be able to work at a women’s college. She’s grateful for a college that designs its program for women in a way that’s different from what’s available at coed schools. “I’m kind of done with women making less than men and the tone of our voices being called out. To be at an institution where women can be elevated to make a difference in the world? I’m all about that,” she says. In addition, she appreciates Sweet Briar’s commitment to increasing the representation of women in positions of leadership. She notes that what women bring to the table is different and enriches the research and science that is done. “As a woman, I have experienced and seen people being treated poorly in research

Her Charge

At her first opening convocation at Sweet Briar, Teresa offered some excellent advice to the students:

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Take the time to listen to one another and be authentically present for one another. In your time here as Sweet Briar women, I would love to hear what you’ve discovered in your explorations, what has challenged you, and what you are connecting to. I would love to hear your stories. And maybe I will have some to share with you, as well, as we embark on this journey together.”

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She believes in the mission of Sweet Briar College and knows that with a good liberal arts education, a student can delve into any field — because they’ll graduate equipped with a broad vision of the world and the ability to see the connections among fields. “Students should engage deeply in a broad curriculum,” she observes. “Supporting a broad liberal

environments. As there are more of us in the field, less of that should happen.

Humanity and kindness should be an expected part of how science is done,” she says.

Indeed, she has a desire to increase the representation of all sorts of voices, including people of color, those with different gender identities, different

Why Lipids?

“It’s just what I study,” Teresa says. Although she wouldn’t say it was her childhood dream, it’s the subject she uses to pursue her scientific curiosity.

“It’s basic science research, and that’s really important because we don’t know what we don’t know,” she observes. “We don’t understand how bacteria work.

We need to keep researching to understand simple things and then understand more complex things.”

religions and more. “We have to create an environment where these different ideas can move our society forward in a way that’s really needed,” she notes. “We have an obligation to elevate the STEM corner of our society.”

She’ll be looking at Sweet Briar’s whole academic program and bringing students and faculty into the conversation about how to move the needle on enrollment, retention and learning. She wants to encourage the faculty to bring students along as they do their research and to work hard to “settle the soil” after the earthquake that was 2015. “This is a fertile place for those discussions,” she says. “I’m going to plant a few seeds that will bloom and be amazing.”

When not at the office, Teresa is a triathlete and enjoys swimming and biking in her spare time. She loves being outside and is in awe of the natural beauty that surrounds the Sweet Briar campus. She also enjoys entertaining and is looking forward to the deanery becoming a place of community and fellowship.

Teresa and Chris have just celebrated 24 years of marriage and they have two daughters: a senior at the University of Connecticut and a sophomore at the University of Colorado Boulder. The family dog is named Daisy, so perhaps it’s fate that brought them to Sweet Briar.

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in VCCA Fellows’ CORE 150 Art Class The summery scents of citronella and sunscreen greeted students as they gathered below the bell tower on a Thursday afternoon in late April. It was pleasant and warm, even humid — hence the bug spray. “Does anybody need more?” asked Courtney Balestier, a writer and one of three VCCA fellows who team-taught this section of CORE 150 — Expression and the Arts. Right beside her: conceptual artist Shea Hembrey and composer Aaron Wyanski.

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Student Visions

It was no ordinary outdoor class, but an art walk led by Carrie Brown, director of the Center for Creativity, Design and the Arts, and a longtime professor of creative writing at Sweet Briar College. Carrie knows (nearly) every nook and cranny of the 3,250acre campus — including the lesser-known spaces she wanted to show students today.

The students were just three days into the course, and the art walk helped them figure out exactly what they were going to do for the rest of the three-week term. The assignment was intentionally vague: Come up with a site-specific installation created by a fictional artist, then draft a sketch and formulate a pitch.

This particular version of CORE 150 was “A Multiplicity of Narratives: The Immersive Art of Identity” and combined the expertise of Shea, a visual artist; Courtney, a literary artist; and Aaron, a sound artist.

Each discipline supports the others to create deeper, richer work. Students were encouraged to expand beyond their own experiences and create work from a more

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Courtney Balestier teaches a session of CORE 150 during the spring 2019 semester in the Art Barn

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imaginative place, “where a multitude of voices reside.”

Before the walk, Aaron launched into an impromptu talk about sound. “Who hates the bells?” he asked. About two or three hands went up. “Who loves the bells?” Many more hands followed.

“Who’s indifferent to the bells?” A few.

“Think about sound and your environment,” he challenged the two dozen students. “Why does sound exist?”

He described a quick history of bells, explaining that for a long time, bells would have been the loudest sound people would have heard — and the loudest sound humans could produce.

Meanwhile, he was drowned out almost entirely by the countless birds that had gathered in the trees nearby.

The group split into three clusters led by each fellow, while the whole pack was guided by Carrie — past Memorial Chapel, out of the Quad and toward Sweet Briar Road. They passed through the traffic circle, by the Front Dell, past the old Bistro and the guardhouse. Then farther down Sweet Briar Road into the trees, toward U.S. 29. Just past the woods, Carrie made a sharp left turn into the field, stopping under an enormous elm tree. Its limbs spread low and strong, perfect for climbing on.

“It’s a display tree. You could hang pictures from it,” remarked Shea. “Imagine what could happen to the landscape with minimal intervention.”

“Does anybody know where we’re going?” asked Carrie.

Everyone did: the old campus entrance with its small iron gates, just 50 yards or so downfield. Carrie explained that it’s romantic and magical and “from a different time.” But Shea pointed out something else: that the highway noise disturbs that notion and brings chaos to it. There’s no way you could have a meditative exhibit in this space, he noted.

“This is one of those hidden spaces on campus,” Carrie explained. “We tried to develop an itinerary of spaces that you might not ever have seen, moving from an intimate scale — this little hidden place — to bigger, most expansive areas, including a place that’s been there all along but which you’ve perhaps never noticed.”

And many of the students hadn’t seen the original entrance — at least not up close.

“I’ve heard about the old entrance since I was a first-year, but I’d never actually gone to see it, so taking a walk down there was pretty exciting,” said Raven Minyard ’20 after the session. “The old entrance made me think about the changes that the school experienced before even I was born,” she said. “I think sometimes we forget how quickly things change in the scheme of life.”

Lily Peterson ’21 had never seen it.

“The art walk helped to ground my ideas and inspired me to find ways to use the resources we have at Sweet Briar in a creative and innovative way,” she said.

“Being able to think about these spaces in the context of art was very inspiring.”

Lauren Jones ’22 had spotted the en-

trance only from a distance, out of a car.

Walking to it made her realize how much of Sweet Briar’s history she doesn’t know, and it made her want to know more.

“Imagine you’re an artist and this is your site visit,” Shea said. He pointed to a grouping of young magnolia trees that have been planted between the old gates and U.S. 29. Magnolias are the oldest trees in the world, he added. “You could use that fact to evoke time.”

Courtney took a thematic approach.

“What are you curious about? Are you curious about land use? Environmental concerns? The idea of a female community?”

Aaron jumped in. “How do you feel in the space?” he added. “Let’s explore that.”

As Shea concluded, “Every little detail is a trigger that could lead to something.”

The art walk, which also took the class to the old barns on Dairy Road and a water tower that overlooks campus, was an opportunity for the students to find inspiration for their project and choose a specific site. The fact that students wouldn’t have to actually create their installation, but “merely” come up with a concept — as well as a finished drawing of it — opened the door to lots of possibilities.

Two weeks later, the students had begun to understand what he meant.

Through the instructors, they’d been exposed to dozens and dozens of works of contemporary art: sculpture and conceptual art, sonic art, a variety of literary forms. Most of it was brand-new

to them. As Carrie observed, the course “exploded their sense of possibility not just as artists but as thinkers, as people who are attentive to the world around them. I promised them at the beginning of the semester that the course would blow their minds, and it was so much fun to watch it happen.”

Lauren, a computer science major with a minor in mathematics, felt inspired.

“Not having to actually create the project has allowed my creativity to run wild,” she said at the time. “For example, I want running water in my art piece.” Lauren was creating glasses that would help the viewer see through the eyes of the visually impaired. “It is definitely getting me out of my comfort zone and that is why I took this class. There are so many ways to think about how to get to your final piece.

In programming, I can use different pieces of code to get to my final piece.”

For Raven, an English and creative writing major with double minors in history and medieval and Renaissance studies, having this much freedom was equal parts exciting and daunting. “I think the most challenging aspect was actually figuring out what to do,” she explained. “We had to think outside the box. There were so many things we could do, and that in itself was intimidating.”

But the art walk made all the difference — especially once the group headed back into the forest.

“I knew I wanted to do something in the woods pretty soon after we walked a bit down Sanctuary Lane,” Raven said.

“Even though there are lots of sections of woods on campus, being surrounded by trees away from the main part of campus really makes you feel like you’re somewhere else entirely, and I wanted to invoke that feeling in my piece.”

Her artist character was a 74-year-old woman who sculpts furniture out of

The course “exploded their sense of possibility not just as artists but as thinkers, as people who are attentive to the world around them. I promised them at the beginning of the semester that the course would blow their minds, and it was so much fun to watch it happen.”

— Carrie Brown, director, Center for Creativity, Design and the Arts

vines, covering them with leaves and moss. Visiting the rickety barns near the Art Barn inspired Raven’s installation.

“I’ve been to the barns before, but it’s always so interesting to look around at all the things that don’t actually belong there, like shopping carts and furniture,” she said.

Lily, a studio art major who is pursuing an Equine Studies Certificate, said having no financial or time constraints because her installation wouldn’t actually have to be built let her develop ideas to their fullest potential. But she’s with Raven. “My biggest challenge was working through the almost limitless artistic liberties,” she said. Even though she had already fulfilled her CORE requirements before, having the chance to learn from VCCA fellows during the immersive three-week format was something she couldn’t pass up.

“This class differed from my other art classes at Sweet Briar by having a focus on conceptual ideas instead of technique, which is rarely taught in traditional college classes,” Lily said. “Because of this, the class required a lot of critical thinking and creative experimentation, which was greatly beneficial in developing my overall artistic style.”

Raven agrees. “While Sweet Briar’s faculty is amazing, it was kind of refreshing to be taught by instructors who were completely new to Sweet Briar.

Because we had three instructors, it was like having three mini classes in one. I enjoyed seeing how each subject came together into our final project. This class has been a unique experience, and I hope we continue to offer classes like this in the future. It’s a good way to get students to start thinking in new ways.”

Students showed their final visions in an exhibition in Babcock Gallery on May 12.

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Two students contemplate an elm tree on campus during the CORE 150 art walk.

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Joshua Harris in the Babcock Fine Arts Center

JOSHUA HARRIS: Expressing Himself Through Music

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Joshua Harris knew 20 years ago that he wanted to teach at a place like Sweet Briar College.

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Obviously, different musicians listen to different things, but in Joshua’s case, his musical taste is pretty eclectic.

He says he reveres Beethoven symphonies and admires operas. He enjoys Debussy, Bach, Chopin, Anton Webern, John Cage and Gyorgi Ligeti. He’s moved to tears by Morton Feldman’s quietness and simplicity.

“But my favorite kind of music — my comfort food music,” he says, “is rock, especially early '90s bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Counting Crows, and all those artists from the '60s and '70s that influenced them (The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan) and then got popular again in the '90s. I love the fact that my mom and I listen to the same bands. How many other generations have that musical connection?”

As an undergraduate at Appalachian State University in the late 1990s, Joshua was a member of The Steely Pan Steel Band. While on tour with the steel drum orchestra, Joshua said he and his band mate, Jeff Jones, would talk about their future plans.

During one of these talks, Joshua told Jeff he wanted to teach music composition at a “small liberal arts college on the East Coast.” A dozen years later, as Joshua was finishing up his Ph.D. in music composition, he got a call from Jeff, who was teaching music at Sweet Briar.

“Jeff said he had found the kind of college I used to talk about on our steel band tours,” says Joshua, now an assistant professor of performing arts at Sweet Briar. He visited Jeff a few times and thought the campus was beautiful. Some happy coincidences and good timing led Joshua to a job at the College in 2014.

Being a music professor wasn’t Joshua’s childhood dream, however. As a boy growing up in the 1980s in smalltown North Carolina, he was more interested in airplanes and late-night talk shows. Through most of high

school, his dream was to go to the U.S. Air Force Academy and fly planes for the military.

Joshua did, however, have a talent for music. He started playing the piano at the age of 10 and by 12 was the organist at his church. In high school, he played clarinet in marching band and keyboard and guitar in a rock group.

Still, as he puts it, “I had a long-term plan for my whole life plotted out, and music wasn’t part of it.”

All of that changed his senior year of high school. “I’m not sure if I thought music was a path of less resistance or if I just felt some kind of gravity increasing around music as I got older, but I decided, almost on a whim my last year of high school, that I’d be a musician instead of flying.”

But it really wasn’t until college that he found out how many opportunities there were in music. “I fell in love with music theory — I’d never studied theory before college — and started composing little exercises to help me with ear training,” he says. “I took composition lessons from a wonderful composer named Scott Meister and he seemed really happy as a college professor, so I thought I’d go for that.”

While Joshua confessed that he wishes he had a “better story” — maybe one where he desired to bring about social justice through music — he said music is just the way he’s chosen to express himself. “I do it because I can,” he says. “If I couldn’t, I’d have chosen something else. Maybe I’d have been an essayist or painter.”

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composed music for the dance program, and he’s enjoyed seeing dance professors Mark and Ella Magruder interpret it. “Composing is intrinsically a non-collaborative activity,” Joshua says. “I usually compose late at night, when everyone else is sleeping. Then it goes out in the world for performers to perform, and the composer loses some control. I actually love that part of the process. I love to see what other creative people do with my ideas.”

At Sweet Briar, Joshua has formed Daisy’s Harp, an experimental student group that he describes as “part classical music ensemble, part rock band, part arts collective, part design lab.” Daisy’s Harp has a “do-ityourself ” spirit and has collaborated with Sweet Briar’s engineering faculty to bring technology and music together.

“We have a homemade light-sensitive ‘harp’ that can play our homemade synthesizer or can be a [Musical Instrument Digital Interface] controller,” Joshua says. “That’s been very useful, and it’s pretty cool to watch it being played. The DIY

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stuff is important because in the real world, people don’t have unlimited budgets, but with some creative thinking, you don’t have to be limited by your budget. But there’s another reason a DIY ethos is important: If you build a synthesizer, you know exactly how it works. So students not only know how a synthesizer works, they can customize it to do whatever they need. Building a thing is more instructive than buying a thing.”

That ethos of seeing connections is in part what he wants to teach his students: “Thinking like a musician means, among other things, understanding time and timing (the synchronicity of events), sensing consonance and dissonance (what goes well together and what clashes), perceiving formal design and structure (how a thing is built and for what purpose), and detecting patterns on different structural levels (the micro and the macro). These skills are useful in a variety of disciplines across the humanities and sciences, but also in developing relationships and in other real-life situations.”

It’s a concept that also applies to Sweet Briar’s Design Thinking class, the introductory class in the core curriculum, which he taught last fall. “Design Thinking tries to develop a bias toward action to complement critical thinking,” he says. “Our motto is ‘do it — reflect — do it better.’ The highly experiential process is intended to help students tap into their creative side. For many students, it pushes them

Want to Hear Joshua’s Work?

“King Rat” is about the friendship of three characters — a college senior, a mid-career screenwriter and a retiring professor — who are essentially the same person at different points in their life. It premiered at the Indy Film Fest in 2017, where it won the Audience Award. It’s streaming on Amazon Prime video now.

WHRO, the Norfolk PBS station, will air a mini-documentary on “There Will Be Stars Over This Place Forever” this fall as part of a series on the arts in the Norfolk area. You can also see the video of the inauguration of the Goode Center on YouTube. Joshua appears near the end.

Joshua also made a piece in the SArPA studio called “a tiny fleck of blue crying light into the void” that was presented at the International Computer Music Conference in Daegu, South Korea, last summer. It’s been released on Ravello Records on the album “Mind & Machine, Vol. 2.”

Listen to Works by Joshua’s Sweet Briar Students Two recent students, Briana McCall ’17 and Corin Diaz ’19, have recorded albums of original music for their senior seminar projects.

Briana’s website: briamccall.com Corin’s website: corindiazofficial.com

When he’s at home, he enjoys sitcoms. “It’s one of the only places on TV where you can be completely weird and experimental,” he says. Among his favorites: “Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Arrested Development,” “The Office,” “30 Rock,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and “Community.” fall 2019

outside their comfort zone. It forces them to navigate ambiguity and make quick choices. It requires them to take risks and confront the inevitability of failure — and to keep going despite those failures.”

When he’s not teaching, he’s often composing. In addition to composing pieces for the Magruders, he’s composed a film score and is in the process of composing another. He met filmmaker Henry Johnston a few years ago when they were teaching together and the two shared an interest in independent films. Henry needed help with an original score for his film “King Rat” and Joshua asked if he could give it a try.

His job was to mimic the movie’s temporary tracks without copying them. “I would listen to each track once, then write down everything I could remember — just plain English, no musical notes. Then I would wait a few days until I was reasonably sure I couldn’t remember the music anymore, look at my notes, and just use those notes as a guide to composing something brand-new. So my notes might say ‘two clarinets + strings; minor key arpeggios in strings; long notes in clarinet,’ and I would just go off of that. I did it all in the SArPA studio. I don’t think I recorded a thing; all the sounds were made with software.” The film premiered at the Indy Film Fest in 2017, where it won the Audience Award, and it eventually won the top juried prize at the Copper Mountain Film Festival in Colorado. Joshua is currently working on a score for Henry’s new film, “Hum.” Last year, Virginia Wesleyan University commissioned Joshua to compose a large work for choir and orchestra to celebrate the opening of the Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center, the university’s new state-ofthe-art concert hall. The VWU choirs and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra premiered “There Will Be Stars Over This Place Forever” (text by William Wordsworth and Sara Teasdale) in March 2019 at the inaugural concert of the Goode Center. “It was a fabulous performance in such a beautiful hall. I couldn’t have been more thrilled to hear what the VWU choirs and the VSO did with it” Joshua says.

Joshua lives on campus with his family. His wife, Megan, works in Mary Helen Cochran Library and the couple has two daughters. The family loves to travel and often finds themselves in central Florida visiting Disney World. Joshua also lived in South Korea for a few years in college, where he learned the language. He likes to travel to the countryside there where, he says, “there are no McDonald’s and no English.”

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LEADERSHIP CORE Takes Young Vixen Home to Guatemala

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Eleven years after leaving Guatemala, Sweet Briar student Ruth Lechner ’21 finally returned home this summer. An internship through Maximo Nivel with Asociación Transiciones, a microbusiness that builds wheelchairs, brought her back to the place she had been adopted from in 2007: Semillas de Amor (“Seeds of Love”), an orphanage just outside Antigua.

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So, what exactly brought her back to Guatemala from her new life in Maryland — and the comfy campus of Sweet Briar — more than a decade later? Ruth says it was a dinner with Joan Parker and Susan Richiedei, who spoke in last year’s CORE 130 — Women and Gender in the World class, that inspired her to look into international opportunities.

The class is part of the College’s new leadership core curriculum. Each week during CORE 130, students heard from different women leaders.

“Sweet Briar has taught me to be ambitious and seek opportunities, which is how I was able to find the internship with Maximo Nivel,” Ruth told us. “Some classes are rigorous, however the knowledge I have gained has made me more confident and fierce.”

Ruth met with career services director Barb Watts to confirm that it was a good organization to go through — and to start the application process. Thanks to Sweet Briar’s Grants for Engaged Learning, which provide up to $2,000 per student, she was also able to fund part of her flight.

With Ruth’s help, studio art major Nora landed a teaching internship through the same company, Maximo Nivel. In June, the two were off to Guatemala. They stayed together with a host family in Antigua and spent their free time exploring the area: from museums to lakes to volcanoes, the two friends explored — and photographed — every corner of Ruth’s childhood home. Both worked in the mornings and took Spanish lessons in the afternoon — a perfect balance, says Ruth, who loved her internship from day one.

What’s special about Asociación Transiciones is not just that many of the

“Some classes [at Sweet Briar] are rigorous, however the knowledge I have gained has made me more confident and fierce.”

company’s employees are in wheelchairs themselves, Ruth said, but that the company campaigns for donations to give wheelchairs to those who can’t afford them.

“They are all hardworking and have a family environment,” Ruth told us a few days in. “I have had to translate amazing stories [about why] someone gets a wheelchair. I have used Excel to record patients’ information. I am also in charge of their social media and answering questions by supporters or new costumers. There are a variety of things I get to do. I even learned how to weld the wheel of a chair!”

The internship was yet another big step in Ruth’s professional and personal development.

“I have not always been confident, especially having to learn in a new environment and language,” she says.

But the opportunities she’s been given by her parents and complete strangers have changed her life, she adds. “This makes me grateful and it’s given me the courage to keep going — with my education and choosing to take on a role in the world [to effect] change, wherever or whatever I may end up being.”

And she’s not stopping anytime soon.

This fall, Ruth is studying abroad in Spain.

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Classmate Nora Florio came along to witness the homecoming — and to complete her own internship.

“I feel incredible!” Ruth told us in June after arriving in Guatemala. And the business major and political science minor had a lot to take in. “When I was adopted [at age 11], I was uneducated and did not know much about my own culture and country,” she admitted. “Now I am embracing the beauty of Guatemala and its people.”

Ruth is thankful she got to see her home country through new eyes and reunite with her Semillas de Amor family. Having friend Nora with her made it an unforgettable experience. “Nora is amazing,” Ruth said. “We played with nine girls who are left, and there are three boys. I know four with whom I was friends when I was there.”

Ruth didn’t realize elections would be taking place while the two were there.

It made their visit all the more special, she added — and educational. “It’s a little heartbreaking to read and hear the news of how corrupted the country has been and continues to be, but I hope that someday there will be change,” she wrote in an email. “I have been asked by many where I am from, and their responses are, ‘You will forever be Guatemala.’ Some are ashamed to say they are from Guatemala or of a certain culture because of the stories told or the standing of the country, but not me.”

Ruth spent about two years at the orphanage after briefly living with her grandmother, who died shortly after her father gave her up. “Guatemala can be a dangerous country to live in, so now I have more understanding for why the adoption happened,” Ruth says. “I am grateful for how far I have come with the help of many, especially my father, other family and friends.”

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New year, new dean, new charge:

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A festive tune opened Sweet Briar College’s 114th session as faculty and senior staff marched into Murchison Lane Auditorium. It fit the mood of President Meredith Woo, who was happy about a number of things.

During orientation, she had hosted a group of new students and reported she was “thrilled” to find they had come to Sweet Briar from all over the world. But what made her just as happy, she added, was to see the “massive transformation” in returning students. “You can see as they become wiser … more thoughtful,” she said.

Student Government Association President Cailey Cobb ’20 took to the podium next to offer words of advice for each class — and a few words for everyone else. “Please pour into this campus,” she said, “Everyone in this room has something more to offer this college.”

In welcoming all new members of the faculty and staff, President Woo also introduced two new members of her cabinet: Vice President of Finance, Operations and Auxiliary Enterprises Luther Griffith and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College Teresa Garrett.

In her remarks to the gathered members of the community, Teresa noted the kinship she shares with the Class of 2023. “You and I together will be learning and growing in this place,” she said.

“Look around you at the Sweet Briar community that surrounds you. They are here to help us succeed.” (You can read more about Teresa on page 8.)

Looking back at her own undergraduate experience at a larger institution, Garrett said she realized that it planted in her a “spirit of exploration.” Now that she’s at Sweet Briar, Teresa said, the Blue

Ridge Mountains are calling to her. She’s already scoped out campus, and couldn’t believe the size of it. “I implore you to explore this beautiful campus — all 3,250 acres of it,” she said. “It’s huge! This just illustrates to you how much Sweet Briar has to offer. … Let this place inspire you, center you and ground you.”

In addition to exploring campus, students should explore new fields of study and take courses outside their comfort zones, Teresa said. “In those explorations, be sure to make connections,” she noted.

“College is this unique time to make connections to not only the place, but the people. So many people are deeply loyal to the college or university they attended, but none more so than Sweet Briar women. Connect with each other. Connect with the history of this place.”

Making meaningful connections takes time, she admitted, and though she had

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asked, Teresa joked, the engineering faculty was no closer to finishing their time machine. “Take the time to listen to one another and be authentically present for one another in your time here,” she added. “In your time here as Sweet Briar women, I would love to hear what you’ve discovered in your explorations, what has challenged you, and what you are connecting to. I would love to hear your stories. And maybe I will have some to share with you, as well, as we embark on this journey together.”

The convocation address was delivered by longtime community member Anna Billias, an adjunct assistant professor of music and recipient of the 2019 SGA Excellence in Teaching Award.

Anna admitted that when she came to the U.S. 14 years ago, she did not think she was “cut out to be a teacher.” One year later, she was employed at Sweet Briar College and loved it instantly.

“You, the ladies of the 21st century, determined and bright, fearless and sincere, are the reason I loved my job so much,” she said.

Recalling the College’s near-closure in 2015, Anna remembered the sense of community that saved the College. “It is teamwork,” she said. “It is the spirit of unity, of determination to succeed, it is resilience, it is the spiritual overcoming the physical.” That same attitude of resilience has helped her overcome other obstacles in her personal and professional life. “Listen to your gut, trust the goodness of your soul and treat others as if this is the last time you see them,” she advised the audience.

“The universe will embrace you for the goodness that you spread and make your life journey memorable and special.”

In her charge to students, President Woo reflected on the year 1919. That was the year that women finally won the right to vote in the U.S. However, that effort was part of a movement that continued to gain traction and hasn’t stopped since, President Woo explained. “We are standing on the shoulders of giants,” she said. “So my charge to you is this: You are part of a move-

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Mark and Ella Magruder, who teach dance at Sweet Briar, with their students

ment that is the greatest movement the world has seen. The movement of women, their struggle for equal rights has borne tremendous fruit. So I want you to think about what it means to be part of the world’s greatest progress. Think about what it means to be an empowered woman, a woman who is capable of thinking, who is capable of inquiry, who is capable of imagining, capable of being creative. Not to become what men are. Not to acquire what others have. But to imagine something different in the smithy of your soul. To own the new century and your future in new and creative, meaningful ways. And I promise you that I will endeavor along with the faculty and the superlative staff to help you in your journey to discover and invent creatively what it means for you to be part of the greatest social movement and imagine it in ways that are utterly different, utterly creative and utterly unprecedented. The world is your oyster.”

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Founders’ Day 2019

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On Sept. 20, Sweet Briar’s usual Founders’ Day celebrations to honor its history were enhanced by a special visit from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and U.S. Senator Mark Warner. Along with Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Bettina Ring and Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Jewel Bronaugh, they were on campus to honor the College’s roots in farming, and to witness its inventive renewal.

Events throughout the day focused on the 3,250 acres of land that make up the College’s campus. Founders’ Day began with a reflective ceremony in a quiet corner of that land: the Sweet Briar Plantation Burial Grounds. Members of

the Black Student Alliance planned the event, which has become an annual part of Founders’ Day. It began with a prayer by the Rev. Jasper Fletcher, a descendant of the slaves who worked the land here.

The student leaders of the BSA read from the Bible and from writings by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison. Lilies were laid on the stone and those in attendance ended the ceremony by walking around the cemetery and contemplating the lives of the people buried there.

Later, Secretary Ring moderated an agriculture roundtable with Secretary Perdue, Sen. Warner, local officials and farmers, as well as Sweet Briar officials, students and faculty. “Agriculture is the

most important industry in Virginia,” President Meredith Woo said in her introduction. Sweet Briar, she added, strives to be a “showcase for agriculture that’s sustainable and productive.” Sen. Warner, who has his own farm in Fredericksburg, was visibly impressed with President Woo’s plans. “Thank you for your remarkable leadership and vision,” he said. Reemphasizing agriculture’s dominant role in Virginia, Sen. Warner stressed that it was important to figure out “how we do agriculture in the 21st century.”

Secretary Perdue agreed on all points.

“I’m just enthused, excited and intrigued by the vision that you have here,” he said. “Agriculture really brings all of us

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“We have a great opportunity here at Sweet Briar,” said Lisa Powell, who will start in January as Sweet Briar’s new director for the Center of Human and Environmental Sustainability and an associate professor. “We’re using our land resources not only to educate potential farmers, but to build a community of women who understand and can advocate for agriculture.”

Following the roundtable, attendees got a tour of some of the College’s agricultural enterprises, which include an apiary, two vineyards, a 20-acre wildflower meadow for pollinator habitat (made possible with support from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service under the NRCS EQIP Program) and a 27,000-foot greenhouse. The tour ended at Sweet Briar’s nearly complete greenhouse, where Secretary Perdue and Sen. Warner joined President Woo for a ceremonial ribbon cutting. In his remarks, Sen. Warner again praised Sweet Briar’s vision. “The idea of what you’re creating here with women in agriculture is extraordinary,” he said, adding how amazing Sweet Briar’s journey has been. “I commend the wonderful women of Sweet Briar for never being willing to quit.” Secretary Perdue joined Sen. Warner’s praise. “Your vision,

an almost counter-culture view of women in agriculture … Your students will bring a different perspective to the future.”

That sentiment was echoed at the Founders’ Day Convocation. Aaron Van Allen, who works for Congressman Ben Cline, was first to speak. “I congratulate you on returning to the roots of Sweet Briar College, and for your efforts to grow and build an agricultural juggernaut in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” Van Allen said on behalf of Cline. “Our community, commonwealth and the nation need more women farmers equipped with academic knowledge and practical learning, which is available to students on this extraordinarily beautiful campus.

Simply put, the world and the agricultural community need Sweet Briar women and the leadership that they offer.”

Secretary Ring and Commissioner Bronaugh were featured speakers at convocation. The number of women leaders in agriculture, natural resources and forestry is growing quickly, Commissioner Bronaugh observed, and she knows why.

“It is a lot about the way that we think, that we lead and plan, and as President Woo said: We are tenacious. We don’t give up until we are successful.”

Secretary Ring spoke next. “I am excited about the progress that is underway and the redevelopment that is happening on your campus,” she said. “Sweet Briar has the opportunity to continue to lead

and to deepen the legacy of your founder.

I personally look forward to observing the extraordinary developments that are yet to come.” To the students, she said: “The Commonwealth of Virginia needs you and the world needs you. We need your passion, your creativity, your resilience, your conscientiousness, your diligence and your commitment. You come from a long line of women who get things done.”

Following convocation, the community walked to Monument Hill for the ceremony that honors the Fletcher-Williams family and the mark they have made on thousands of young women since the school’s founding in 1901. Daisies were laid on the stones to honor the family, including a young girl whose life was cut tragically short.

Walking down the hill, the campus community then came together for dinner in Prothro. The light from the setting sun was golden in the dining room as people laughed and talked and enjoyed the wonderful food served by Sweet Briar’s catering partner, Meriwether Godsey.

After dinner, a good crowd of alumnae, staff, faculty and friends gathered to hear Anna Chao “Chips” Pai ’57 speak about her new book, “From Manchurian Princess to the American Dream.” The day was capped off with an opportunity for alumnae and current students to get to know each other better over s’mores in the atrium.

Lisa Powell, director, Center for Human and Environmental Sustainability

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A Half Decade of

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— Ann Gately ’70

the first Sweet Work Weeks. “We are in Debbie and Jen’s debt for getting everything started, for this thing that has become something big.”

That Kathy would “decide to go” is in her SBC DNA — she has served the College and the alumnae as a member of the board, the alumnae board and the campaign planning committee. She is currently her class’s co-president. She worked as a volunteer leader of Sweet Work Weeks for its third and fourth years, and after the Alumnae Alliance created a Sweet Work Weeks working group to organize and run the projects each year, she volunteered to lead the working group as a co-chair.

John is no stranger to the College. John, a retired school administrator, John first med Kathy, a retired teacher, on campus, on the first floor of Manson when it was the Information Center. John went out with Kathy’s roommate while Kathy went out with John’s UVa roommate.

And John and Kathy, who live in Warrenton, are also SBC parents, of Emily Pegues ’00.

According to Kathy, the first year of Sweet Work Weeks was a little free-form, but everyone was passionate, and it was all hands on deck.

“Reclaiming the Vixen Den for the students was one of the big projects that first year. Also getting Sweet Briar House ready for Phil Stone,” says Kathy. “Some 50 people did touch-up painting, washed windows, polished furniture, cleaned floors, set out fresh flowers and then we left notes all over the house for Phil. The house looked good, smelled good; it was welcoming.”

John says, “I did all sorts of things.

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This year, the College’s new tradition of Sweet Work Weeks marked its fifth year and in that relatively short period of time, the annual event has become almost as big as Reunion weekend. Participants paint, weed, mulch and more — all to welcome students home for a new academic year. Of course, it’s about more than just work. It’s also an opportunity for alumnae of different generations to get to know each other in a meaningful way.

We are so grateful for the hard work of all of our amazing alumnae that we wanted to take a moment to honor some of the women — and some husbands — who have become regular attendees at Sweet Work Weeks.

And thanks to Jane Dure ’82 for writing the story!

Kathy Pegues ’71 and husband John marked their 42nd wedding anniversary on Aug. 13. They celebrated the day where they had celebrated their past four anniversaries: on campus at Sweet Work Weeks. That makes Kathy and John fiveyear veterans of the idea put into action

by Debbie Thurman ’76 and Jen Phelps Staton ’02 mere weeks after former president Phil Stone stepped foot on campus in the summer of 2015.

“We heard about alumnae going to campus, to get it ready for the students, and we decided to go,” Kathy says about

“It was an exhilarating three weeks, an amazingly productive time…

We problemsolved, which speaks to our liberal arts education. ”

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Levy ’86 and Ann Gateley ’70, painting wood at the [Conference Center] and rebuilding a pilaster at the admissions office.”

Over the years, Kathy’s favorite project has been working in Daisy’s Garden, but this year, she got the most satisfaction working in the Bloy Memorial Garden, behind Memorial Chapel. “The beds were full of crabgrass covering the existing plants, and some of the bushes had died,” Kathy says. “We removed all of that and mulched. Dang, it looked beautiful.”

“Painting is the most satisfying,” John says, “but I guess I am known for the bamboo. The first year, the bamboo was blocking the back exit to the Vixen Den. I think I’ve worked on the bamboo every year. When we arrived this summer, the bamboo was falling over the Sweet Briar Drive. We cut it back to the ground, and where there was a one-foot swath between the bamboo and the curb is now a twofoot swath.”

After her years as a volunteer leader and now co-chairing the Sweet Work Weeks working group with Vikki Schroeder ’87, Kathy is set on keeping Sweet Work Weeks running smoothly and improving the experience for alumnae and friends

of the College. “We have learned over the years how to use strategically the volunteers we have,” she says. “For example, Erin East ’00 and Kris Harris ’99 will do anything well, but they like to mulch.

Though there were a few glitches, this year was perhaps the smoothest Sweet Work Weeks, and we did three weeks of work in two weeks.”

In the summer of 2015, Ann Gateley ’70 was transitioning into retirement from her professorship in internal medicine at the University of New Mexico, with a practice in sports medicine, taking care of all of the university’s athletes.

“Because I live in an area that is low-density in terms of fellow alumnae, I wasn’t able to engage in the heavy lifting in the effort to save the College,” Ann says. “I felt fairly helpless. But when I heard about alumnae gathering on campus in what was that first Sweet Work Weeks, I knew I could contribute with literal heavy lifting on campus, and I wrangled some extra time off work to attend.”

Ann says, “It was an exhilarating three weeks, an amazingly productive time.

There was no real supervision on behalf of the College, no one had taken an assessment of what was needed; so we prob-

“Sweet Work Weeks allows you to focus on the community of alumnae.”

— Ann Gately ’70

lem-solved, which speaks to our liberal arts education. Volunteers spread out over the campus with clipboards to assess what needed to be done.”

In the years since, Ann has become the alumna leader of the grounds-keeping efforts of Sweet Work Weeks, working with the College’s horticulturalist, Donna Meeks, even the year after Donna retired.

“Donna taught me a lot about pruning and what plantings work best where,” says Ann. Ann notes that Sweet Work Weeks has transitioned to a strong partnership with the College, as more of the new staff and administration have gained institutional memory of what the alumnae can (continued on page 31)

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ALUMNAE PROFILE Sweet Work Weeks together for the past five years.

“We drove down to campus on some random weekend after the closure announcement. The campus was so sad,” Brendy says. “To get to go back and have a hand in erasing that at the first Sweet Work Weeks, to clean the place. It was cathartic.”

“It was important to be there,” Eve says.

“I could give time and in some way give back.”

That first year, Brendy says though they concentrated on the Vixen Den, “My eyes took in the campus differently. Like the bulletin boards all over campus — they were covered with layers and layers of announcements of events years old. Things looked uncared for. We hoped our small part would be enough, so the students would have a sense of permanence.”

And coming back each year has also been important. Brendy’s schedule as a realtor living in Chantilly is flexible.

Eve, who is the vice president of human resources at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, has had to block out vacation time.

In the past few years, she has brought her niece down with her.

“She went to the Naval Academy, but she follows what’s going on with Sweet Briar, and she’s enjoyed helping out. We treat the whole trip as an adventure,” says Eve. “This year on the trip down, we stopped at the Amish marketplace on 29 and got pies at Yoder’s. In our days as students, we didn’t appreciate what was between campus and where we were going. Now it’s part of the adventure.”

Brendy adds, “We have also been discovering Lynchburg’s restaurants.”

But being on campus is the main draw, as Eve says, “Going up the drive, my blood pressure goes down. Brendy and I joke that we are like pod people returning to the mothership to be re-energized.

And we stay at the Elston Inn — I used to work in hospitality; the inn is fixed up nicely. It’s quiet and relaxing and our home base during Sweet Work Weeks.”

For both Brendy and Eve, the painting

projects have been a favorite. “You can see the before and after, when a room is more welcoming to students,” Brendy says.

“It meant a lot to me to paint in Randolph,” says Eve. “Freshman year I was on the second floor and Brendy had a room in the basement. It’s as if I came full circle — I looked out of a window from the second floor and remembered my parents dropping me off.”

“I could give time and in some way give back.”

— Eve Devine ’81

This year, Brendy and Eve arrived toward the end of Sweet Work Weeks, after a lot of the projects had been completed or were winding down. Their main project was pulling cards from library books; not a sexy task, but removing the cards from all of the books in the library must be done, by law. And they were happy to make a dent in the very big job.

Eve says, “I’ll do any assignment they give me.”

Brendy and Eve also worked the last Saturday of Sweet Work Weeks helping the new students move in, and then watched the Daisy Ceremony. “It was nice to see the students arrive with their parents. In 2015 I saw a campus practically abandoned. This year, I was there when 120 students moved in.”

“I hope there is always something we can do,” says Eve. “I love having breakfast with everyone, just like when we were students, but instead of heading off to class, we head off to work. I will be coming as long as I’m physically able.”

Brendy agrees: “Sweet Work Weeks is a new tradition.”

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accomplish. Ann says, “We are forging a partnership with the College, creating relationships.”

This year, in terms of the grounds, Ann noticed “evidence of proactive landscape attention. The grounds personnel have a considerable job with just the maintenance of the athletic fields, let alone attending to the signature physical beauty of our campus.”

Ann gives a shoutout to those involved in the effort that brought the slew of young alumnae from the classes of 2015 to 2018 to Sweet Work Weeks over the middle weekend this year. [Editor’s note: That was the Young Alumnae Squad working group of the Alumnae Alliance!]

She enjoyed having the young alumnae on her grounds-keeping crew. “It was energizing to see them owning the projects they worked on. I hope they keep returning to Sweet Work Weeks,” she says.

“We need their energy; we need continuity; we need for them to own Sweet Work Weeks like us older alumnae have. I can’t do this in my 80s!”

It’s no secret among Sweet Work Week regulars that Ann’s favorite Sweet Work Week activity is “wine-down” after the day’s chores have been completed. “I like staying on campus and communing with other alumnae, learning about them,” she says. “When the young alumnae showed up, we had alumnae from many decades, and that’s good for all of us, extending our understanding of each other.

“I like working the high-profile projects — the upper quad, Monument Hill, Daisy’s Garden — because they are meaningful,” she adds. “But mostly, I like being outside, enjoying the campus. As students, we weren’t on campus at the time of Sweet Work Weeks, as school hadn’t started. It’s an interesting time to be there. The temperature and light are different. Sweet Work Weeks allows you to focus on the community of alumnae, to look at our school and enjoy the environs.”

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This summer, we welcomed alumnae and their families — more than 350 people — back to campus for Reunion Weekend to reminisce, spend time together and celebrate all that makes the Sweet Briar College experience special.

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Reunion Weekend is one of the best times of the year at Sweet Briar and we’re always grateful for the time we get to spend with you. Save the date for Reunion 2020: May 29-31. We’ll be honoring class years ending in 0 and 5, but all alumnae are invited and we hope to see you there!

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HISTORY

President Meta Glass and Mr. Barker volunteer as soda jerks at the Boxwood Inn, c. 1944.

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“The Story of Sweet Briar College,”

by Martha Lou Lemmon Stohlman, describes a “flurry of building” during the presidency of Emilie Watts McVea, a president who was sometimes criticized for her practicality.

One structure built between 1916 and 1925 was the Boxwood Inn. Constructed in 1920 or 1922, depending on the source, it was meant to replace a tea house then located in what Stohlman describes as the “old plantation office.” Not only had the College outgrown its old tea house, there also was a need for somewhere on campus to house overnight guests. Stohlman writes that “in this instance, Miss McVea’s ‘practical ways’ were approved.”

For decades, the Boxwood Inn would be what Lynn Rainville and Lisa N.

Johnston, coauthors of a 2015 book about Sweet Briar history, describe as a “popular hangout for faculty, students and off-campus visitors, decorated with art, Asian lanterns, and wooden booths.”

The 1931-32 Alumnae News declared it “next in rank” to the grassy dell “of those places where an interested observer may take up a strategic position to behold campus life.” It added that the Great Depression did nothing to dampen its popularity.

“The depression has not decreased the number of morning dissipaters, spending a vacant period over Coca-Colas and cookies. And the Tea House temptation is just as strong as ever to the exhausted bloomer-clad procession that straggles up the hill from the lower hockey field in the afternoons.”

The Fall 1976 Alumnae Magazine, which celebrated the College’s 75th anniversary, included a section penned by Julia Sadler de Coligny ’34 in which she fondly remembers the Boxwood Inn of the early 1930s. She recalls it as “always packed and cozy” and writes, “Those Sunday night suppers of waffles and creamed chicken were something to remember, although our spending money was so scarce it didn’t happen often unless you had a visitor.”

During World War II, with the men at war and labor shortages at home, newspapers across the country reported that President Meta Glass was lending a hand at the Boxwood Inn. Under the headline, “College President Is ‘Soda Jerker,’” a September 1943 issue of the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune reported that President

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built. In 1969, with enrollment described in the winter magazine as “bigger than ever” at 731, some students “[considered] themselves privileged to live at the Boxwood Inn.” While the Boxwood Inn closed decades ago, it continues to live on as home to the College’s alumnae relations and development office, and to the Sweet Briar Museum. But there is something that’s had just as much staying power: the Boxwood Inn’s cinnamon toast, or at least the memories of it.

Joan DeVore Roth ’41 writes in the 75th anniversary magazine that during World War II, the Boxwood Inn was a “most popular spot” where coffee and cinnamon toast could be had for 15 cents. In a 1986 magazine, a member of the Class of 1969 writes that a recent lunch with her classmates was as “pleasant as coffee and cinnamon toast at the Boxwood Inn.” And just recently, Brugh said that when she mentioned the Boxwood Inn to her sister, Helen Smith Lewis ’54, “the first thing that came out of her mouth was the cinnamon toast.” Brugh added, “It was probably white bread that they had baked there in the kitchen, at the dining hall, slathered with melted butter and they sprinkled it with cinnamon sugar. Real butter and then cinnamon sugar. It was really just wonderful.”

Special Spoon Bread 2 c/ water 1 c. uncooked rice 1 ½ tsp. salt 1/8 tsp. black pepper 2 tsp. prepared mustard 1 c. grated sharp cheese 1 c. milk 1 egg, beaten 1 tbsp. poppy seeds 2 tbsp. margarine ½ tsp. paprika Put water, rice, and salt in sauce pan. Cook over high heat. Simmer over low heat 14 minutes.

Remove and leave lid on 10 minutes. Stir pepper, mustard, ½ c. cheese, milk and egg into hot rice.

Spread evenly into well-greased shallow baking dish. Sprinkle on poppy seen and remaining cheese.

Cut margarine over top. Cool and refrigerate. Remove from refrigerator at meal time and sprinkle paprika over top. Place in broiler, heat through and brown on top.

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Glass had responded to the labor shortage by “donning an apron and ‘jerking soda’ at the fountain in the Boxwood Inn, [the] only oasis on the campus where students could get milk shakes and soft drinks before bedtime.”

Over the years, visiting lecturers and dignitaries also visited the Inn, among them Katherine Anne Porter, journalist, activist and author the 1962 novel “Ship of Fools.”

As reported in the March 1967 Alumnae Magazine, Katherine had breakfast with students at the Boxwood Inn on two occasions in the 1950s.

Alumnae from the 1950s and ’60s also have fond memories of Lois Ballenger, who spent more than 50 years working at Sweet Briar and was manager of the Boxwood Inn for many years. With a laugh, Mary Smith Brugh ’57 recently described Ballenger as “kind of formidable,” while Mina Walker Wood ’62 recalled her as “a nice, in-charge old girl.”

On several occasions in the 1950s and ’60s, the Inn was commandeered for dorm space. According to the 75th anniversary issue of the magazine, while Dew residence hall was under construction, “students were packed into every available nook on campus” and 17 students lived at the Inn. Students were housed at the Inn in 1961, while Meta Glass residence hall was being

We couldn’t find the recipe for cinnamon toast or waffles and creamed chicken, but we did find several recipes from the Boxwood Inn in “Tastes Remembered: A treasury of recipes from the good cooks of Sweet Briar College,” which was compiled in 1994.

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GIVING

Together, We Are

One Sweet Briar

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Sweet Briar College has always been a place where young women arrive ready to test themselves, find their strengths and explore their world. The College has regularly retooled itself to meet the needs of each generation, incorporating new ways to learn and building and upgrading facilities, while retaining the features that are responsible for its distinctive character. Through it all, Sweet Briar has continued a tradition of cultivating engaged citizens, persuasive communicators, ethical decision-makers and skilled leaders — traits long associated with Sweet Briar students and alumnae.

Your gifts to the Sweet Briar Fund make it all possible. Donors provide support for scholarships, faculty and academic programs and the stewardship of our natural and built environment.

As the College’s enrollment increases, more tuition revenue will mean a decreased reliance on fundraising dollars, but donations to the Sweet Briar Fund will always

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support areas of need for the College and ensure its success going forward. With your support, the College will continue to be a launching pad for successful women who will take the lead in a complex and changing world.

The fundraising goal for the 2019-2020 academic year is $6 million in new gifts and 30% participation from alumnae. Together, we can make it happen.

Scholarships In today’s competitive college environment, scholarships help convince exceptional students to choose Sweet Briar and because of our generous donors, Sweet Briar has been able to provide merit scholarships for our current students. However, these scholarships, often supported by restricted gifts from alumnae and families of Sweet Briar, do not cover the total need for merit scholarships for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Your gift to the Sweet Briar Fund will help us cover that gap and give us the freedom to offer competitive award packages, increasing the appeal of Sweet Briar for students and their families.

Faculty and Academic Program Support At the heart of every student’s time at Sweet Briar are the dedicated faculty members who guide and shape the academic year. Faculty ignite innovation and inspire students to learn and grow beyond their greatest expectations. Our faculty empower students to make positive change in their communities and share their inspiration with the world.

Your gift to the Sweet Briar Fund means we can recruit and retain the best teachers and mentors and provide the resources they need to develop intellectually stimulating classes for Sweet Briar students.

GIVING wildflower meadow pollinator habitat, all of which will produce revenue for Sweet Briar. With these investments, the former Sweet Briar Farm has been reinvigorated in a way that will sustain the College for decades to come. Your gift to the Sweet Briar Fund will help us advance these efforts, establishing Sweet Briar as a leader in artisanal agriculture and providing young women with a rich setting for learning, living and leadership.

One Sweet Briar Anyone whose life has been touched

by Sweet Briar — as a student, alumna, parent, faculty member, staff or friend — knows lives are shaped here. We are all stewards of the institution that educated us and gave us a community that will sustain us through lifetimes.

As beneficiaries of this inheritance, we are responsible to the next generation of Sweet Briar women. Your gift to the Sweet Briar Fund will leave a legacy of support for young women who will go on to lead the world.

This unifying experience is part of the philosophy of One Sweet Briar: We come together to support each other and to support the future of Sweet Briar College.

We celebrate our triumphs and solve our problems — together.

Together, we are One Sweet Briar.

Increased alumnae participation:

Every gift matters!

For class leaders and staff members alike, alumnae participation is one of those things that is greater than the sum of its parts. On the surface, it’s a simple calculation that gives us a number. Dig a little deeper, and it becomes a formula that represents more than just giving.

Alumnae participation is used by U.S. News & World Report (and other key publications) as one of seven factors in ranking colleges and universities. So, the higher the alumnae participation rate, the higher the ranking. Many granting agencies also use alumni participation as a factor in considering potential grants.

In short, your gift, of any size, increases our alumnae participation rate and makes us more appealing to prospective students and their families, as well as to potential grantors.

Total Alumnae Donors Total Solicitable Alumnae Alumnae participation goal for the 2020 fiscal year (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020):

30%!

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Stewardship of Natural and Built Environment Sweet Briar’s founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams, left the majority of her land holdings to establish an institution that would educate young women. The original historic buildings, 21 of which are on the National Register of Historic Places, require stewardship and care to honor our history and ensure their active role in each academic year.

Sweet Briar’s buildings form the center of our community of learning. Many were built from bricks made on site — created from the same red clay on which our buildings sit — by individuals whose descendants remain our friends, neighbors and colleagues. These buildings embody our shared history.

Of course, the College is more than just buildings, it’s also 3,250 acres of some of the most beautiful land to be found anywhere. Indeed, that land is among our greatest assets. It is an expansive canvas for learning and research, giving our students opportunities not available anywhere else.

The driveway that meanders through oldgrowth tree sanctuaries is the first of many sights that inspire prospective students to choose Sweet Briar, and it is the signal that calls our alumnae home.

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Erin Pitt, Sweet Briar College assistant professor of archaeology and ancient studies, spent much of her summer digging.

She’s the co-director of the Roman Colonial Urbanism Project, which investigates sites in the Mediterranean world to compare urban life in distant Roman colonies.

Erin and her crew opened a trench in the public square of the southern Albanian town of Butrint, a UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site known as Buthrotum when it was part of a Roman colony. They kept expanding it as they followed the path of a lead pipe in an aqueduct dating from the reign of Emperor Hadrian in the second century C.E. Along the way, they found the remains of rooms from houses and public buildings and a horde of discarded bronze coins.

Another one of the dig’s intriguing discoveries was the basin of a fountain sourced by a spring — now a trickling stream — that apparently served the town’s inhabitants before the Roman takeover. By the basin, they found shards of broken pottery and glass from small

perfume and cosmetics vessels called uguentaria, probably placed there to stop up the flow of water once the fountain was no longer used. Finding the spring and fountain were especially gratifying to Erin, whose current investigations, at Pompeii as well as at Butrint, include the ways in which ancient communities gained and kept access to water, and how they used it when they had it.

While Erin was in a trench 5,000 miles away from campus, Associate Professor Bethany Brinkman, who directs the Margaret Jones Wyllie ’45 Engineering Program, was working on a water issue right here at Sweet Briar with engineering majors Rosa Bello ’20 and Karlynn McCarthy ’20. The team designed a filter system made from a readily available material: concrete, which is a step toward establishing affordable, acceptable means of treating water in the developing world, where more than 700 million people lack access to safe drinking water. Bethany, Rosa and Karlynn created porous concrete filters in reusable housings that can double

as water storage containers and then tested the filters’ efficacy in removing fecal coliforms and organic matter from water samples gathered from the George Washington National Forest and the Sweet Briar campus using the project’s self-designed automated water sampler.

Both students are motivated by the desire to help engineer solutions to significant problems. “This research opened my eyes to how great an impact a common dayto-day material like concrete can have on global issues,” Karlynn says. “It is one of the most widely used building materials, but it can also be used to help solve the water crisis.”

Down the hall from Guion Science Center’s engineering lab, Emily Wandling ’20 and DaZané Cole ’20 were in the chemistry and biology labs, investigating betulin, a compound derived from birch trees and known to have anti-microbial, anti-cancer and anti-viral properties. Emily, a biochemistry and molecular biology double major, and DaZané, double-majoring in biology and psychology, were engaged in

DaZané Cole ’20 in Guion

than research. They also support academic initiatives and agricultural enterprises, scholarships, internships, the preservation of historic buildings and myriad other projects.

Grants have played an important role in helping launch the new leadership core curriculum, nurturing one of President Woo’s highest priorities and spurring Sweet Briar’s growing reputation as one of the nation’s most innovative colleges. The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, for example, helped fund the debut of two core courses. Design Thinking is one of them. As the gateway into the core, the class utilizes elements from the designer’s tool kit such as empathy and experimentation to broaden students’ thinking, encouraging them to develop innovative

Students in Design Thinking in Fall 2019

solutions to a wide range of local and global problems. Another course is The Mindful Writer, a workshop-based intensive writing course that helps students become confident and effective readers and writers using The New Yorker as its primary text.

A grant from the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation is supporting Expression and the Arts, in which students develop their creative and critical capacities through the study and practice of the arts. Specifically, the Mellon grant funds the Fellows Studio, taught by visiting artists who are joint fellows at Sweet Briar and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the worldclass residential artists’ community across U.S. 29 from the College.

The inaugural Fellows Studio, A Multiplicity of Narratives: The Immersive Art of Identity [read more about the course on page 11], was taught during the Spring 2019 3-week term by an interdisciplinary team of three visiting artist fellows: writer Courtney Balestier, conceptual artist Shea Hembrey and composer Aaron Wyanski.

The class merged concepts of visual art, literature and sound art to explore voice, point of view and identity. The students imagined large-scale, immersive, site-specific artworks on the Sweet Briar campus — but the works would not be their own. Instead, the students used literary concepts to imagine the fictional artists behind these conceptual works and to understand these artists as a literary writer

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separate but related projects. Emily, after extracting and purifying betulin from the bark of a paper birch tree growing on campus, synthesized a new betulin derivative, dehydrated allobetulin. DaZané tested the effectiveness of betulin and its derivatives against the deadly pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that is one of the leading causes of death in cystic fibrosis sufferers. Emily feels the project has solidified her passion to become a biomedical scientist, while DaZané, an aspiring veterinarian, is certain the work has honed her “skills as a researcher, critical thinker and scientific communicator.”

These four projects exemplify only some of the fascinating investigations Sweet Briar faculty and students carry out each summer. And crucially, they have something else in common: All received essential support from external grants.

The Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (VFIC) helped fund Erin’s project through a Mednick Memorial Fellowship. Emily and DaZané each earned VFIC Summer Undergraduate Science Research Fellowships, while the Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research supported the clean water project of Bethany and her students Rosa and Karlynn. The VFIC and the Jeffress Trust are two of a host of sponsors helping to drive Sweet Briar’s educational mission.

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Students in the Fall 2019 Fellows Studio created sitespecific art with Susanna Nevison’s “The Self and the Poem” class. Shown here: Carrie Brown, director of the Center for Creativity, Design and the Arts, with Rachel Partington ‘20

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would understand her characters. The SBC-VCCA fellows felt that teaching this course was an extraordinary experience.

As characterized by Aaron, “Working with such thoughtful and engaged students, in Sweet Briar’s incredible facilities, with such enthusiastic institutional support was an ideal situation.”

The just-completed Fall 2019 3-week session featured another Fellows Studio: Site-Specific Art in the Sweet Briar Landscape, taught by SBC-VCCA fellow Laura Boles Faw. Laura and the students carried out individual and group sculptural explorations of the College’s land, using a variety of methods. They produced rubbings of the built and natural landscape, and combined the drawings into a collaged, quilt-like installation. They created a “line drawing in the landscape” using mown grass from the College’s switchgrass fields and filmed the line’s progress using stop-motion video. They collaborated with English and creative writing professor Susannah Nevison’s poetry class to create an intervention in the landscape that neither class could have produced independently: writing a poem, “Over the Grass,” inspired by a campus nature walk and then “inscribing” the poem into the landscape using leaves, twigs, cicada skins and other found natural materials. “I

realized,” says junior Margie Heath, “that art is more than a painting in a museum.

The environment around us is a canvas and the paintbrush can be as simple as a stone or a leaf.”

Some grants support specific programs.

Athletics received a two-year grant from the NCAA Division III Ethnic Minorities and Women’s Internship program, which brings Olivia Walters, a 2018 graduate of Georgia Southern, to the College as assistant sports information director. Prior to her August arrival on campus, Olivia completed an internship at Dalton State College and worked on the ESPN event staff at the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa. At Sweet Briar, she is tasked with promoting and coordinating athletics events, developing website content and reinvigorating the Visible Vixen program, in which students earn points for attending various campus events. Olivia is excited to be gaining additional sports management experience at a women’s college. “Sports management is still such a male-dominated field that having this internship at Sweet Briar will help me grow and become more confident,” she says. “I also hope what I learn here can help me mentor other young women who want a career in sports management.”

Perhaps grants for scholarships provide the most powerful examples of how ex-

ternal funding helps Sweet Briar educate the young women of today who will be the leaders of tomorrow. Sweet Briar is fortunate to have many grant-funded scholarships to offers its students. One of them, from the Al Stroobants Foundation in Lynchburg, covers the costs of full tuition for two first-year students from Lynchburg or Amherst, Bedford and Campbell counties in Virginia. This year’s recipients are Grace Primm and Leilani Williams, both from Amherst County.

Grace plans to double-major in biology and environmental science. Leilani hasn’t decided on a major yet, but is interested in environmental science. “This scholarship,” she says, “is truly a blessing to me. It takes all the stress off my shoulders about having to pay for everything and lets me focus on enjoying my school year.” Grace heartily agrees, stating, “My scholarship allowed me to attend Sweet Briar full time and not have to worry about money being a factor in my educational plans. It made it possible for me to follow the path I chose to take in my life.”

As these young women attest, grant support can turn educational dreams into reality. It happens every day at Sweet Briar.

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1946

1952

1963

Elizabeth Pinkerton Scott July 27, 2019

Candace Greene Satterfield March 29, 2019

Barbara Baker Bird September 1, 2019

Elizabeth “Betsey” Beale August 20, 2019

1938

Elisabeth McKeown Scott August 21, 2016

Joan Crouse Blythe April 26, 2019

1969

Vesta Murray Haselden June 18, 2019

Joan Darby West March 16, 2019

Martha Yost Ridenour March 29, 2019

Alberta Zotack Baigent March 31, 2019

1940

1947

Priscilla Lucas Stevens June 17, 2018

Barbara Hastings Carne August 27, 2019

Blair Bunting Both April 7, 2019

Ann Graves Gagarin August 5, 2019

Helen Bugg Vaughan October 7, 2018

1970

Jean Erskine Harris July 1, 2019

Mary “Ashley” Hudgins Rice May 9, 2019

1953

Sarah “Sally” Campbell April 14, 2019

Marion Phinizy Jones March 30, 2017

Ann Morse Woodliff August 14, 2019

Patricia Whitner Rothwell June 23, 2019

1971

1941

1948

1954

Anne Howe Nelson August 20, 2019

Helen Winter Clobridge November 4, 2018

Annabell “Vickie” Brock Badrow February 19, 2019

Lucy Gandy Clark May 30, 2019

Jo Ann Vestal Lyon May 20, 2019

1979

Evelyn Cantey Marion August 17, 2019

1955

Eugenie “Janie” Neimark Lewis October 10, 2016

Margaret Craighill Price June 24, 2019

Patricia Smith Nelson August 14, 2019

Catherine Cage Bruns May 3, 2019 Amanda McThenia Iodice April 22, 2019

1980

1942

Audrey Lahman Rosselot June 17, 2019 Martha Owen Thatcher August 21, 2019

1956

Mary Brown Griggs June 22, 2014

1950

Elizabeth “Betsy” Parker Paul June 24, 2019

Jeanne Buzby Runkle October 11, 2018

Nancy Thompson Baker June 4, 2019

1957

1943

Susan Tucker Yankee May 25, 2019

Esther Jett Holland July 9, 2019

1951

Katherine “Bebe” Macey Graham April 9, 2019

Mary “Jane” Steiger Wingerd August 8, 2019

Janet Broman Dingle March 5, 2019

Lee Vandegrift Felts March 30, 2019

1944

Joan Kuehnle Kaufman August 21, 2019

1958 Nancy Dennehy Lones February 15, 2019

Elizabeth “Betsy” Shanks August 24, 2019

1959

1989

Beatrice Brown Borden March 25, 2019

Phyllis Tenney Dowd Date unknown

Georgia Dreisbach Kegley March 3, 2019

Martha Lee Hoffman McCoy June 3, 2019

Katharine Phinizy Mackie May 29, 2019

Jean Andrews Peterson April 14, 2019

Joanne Bloom Perriens December 23, 2016

Elaine Kimball Carleton May 13, 2019

Marcia Payne Grant April 13, 2019

1960

1945

Lydia Montgomery Bond May 3, 2018

Mary Symes Anderson July 3, 2019

1962

Jane Clarke Morrow May 19, 2019

Anne Dunlap Youmans May 30, 2019

Elizabeth Tyson August 20, 2019

1982 Cynthia Stanford February 13, 2019

1983 Catherine Campbell September 12, 2017

1985

Joy Canada Faust March 21, 2019

1991 Yolanda Reid August 19, 2019 fall 2019

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Chuck Kestner (left) with Harold Swisher, ALUMNAE BRIEFS former director of grounds and purchasing

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When Chuck Kestner was born in a small town in far southwestern Virginia near Abingdon in 1924, Sweet Briar was a mere 15 years from its first graduating class. Emilie Watts McVea was the College’s president and the Class of 1925 had just about 36 graduates.

Chuck’s hometown of Meadowview isn’t all that far from Sweet Briar as the crow flies — less than 200 miles — but Chuck’s life would take him from his hometown to Harrisonburg, to Eau Claire, Wis., Chicago, Ill., Boston, Mass., Blacksburg, Roanoke and Richmond, and even England before he landed at Sweet Briar in 1968.

As a boy, Chuck was an avid member of the Boy Scouts, and he eventually became an Eagle Scout, an accomplishment of which he was very proud. By the time he was 13, his family had moved to Harrisonburg. Chuck graduated from the high school there in 1943, just in time to be drafted into service during World War II. He embarked upon Air Force training in Eau Claire and Fort McCoy, in Wisconsin, where he also learned to ice skate.

He was later transferred to the Army, re-trained in infantry and ultimately sent to Boston, where he remembered the

“Red Cross ladies” giving them cups of tea on the docks near the harbor. From Boston he was sent to England on a ship, a crossing that took about a week. Chuck’s wife, Bonnie, remembers him telling her that he slept on a coiled rope for much of the journey and while on the ship, he cut the hair of his fellow soldier using hand clippers.

Chuck did not see combat during his time in England. After about three months, he injured his shoulder and was sent home to Harrisonburg, where he worked at the Boy Scout camp and for the Geological Survey.

In 1946, he took a bus bound for Virginia Tech, where he completed his degree in civil engineering in 1952. But by then, he was no longer a bachelor. He was husband to Maxine, whom he’d married in 1948, and father to Liz. A second daughter, Valerie, soon joined the family, by which time Chuck was working as a building inspector in Salem, Va. Eventually, he landed a job with the Portland Cement Association, which required him to travel.

In 1968, however, Liz was looking at colleges. Chuck wanted her to stay close to home, so when a job opportunity at

Sweet Briar presented itself, it seemed like an ideal solution. Thus began the family’s association with the College, a relationship that lasts to this day. Liz would go on to graduate from Sweet Briar in 1972.

He came to Sweet Briar as director of buildings and the family lived on campus.

The home they lived in burned down in 1970, and Chuck was given the opportunity to design and build a new home on the same lot. Sadly, Chuck’s wife Maxine died suddenly in 1978.

In 1977, work had begun on the College’s natatorium, a project that Chuck was incredibly proud of. Naturally, with a swimming pool comes a swim team and with a swim team comes a coach. Yale alumna Bonnie Jackson joined the Sweet Briar faculty in the fall of 1977 as the College’s first aquatics director and swim coach. Bonnie and Chuck worked together on the swimming pool project and after Maxine’s death, the friendship between the two blossomed. They were married in 1979. The couple would eventually have two children together: Charles Wiley and Kristen Anne.

Of course, the Kestner home and the natatorium aren’t the only places on cam-

pus where you can see Chuck’s work. You can see it in the Harriet Howell Rogers Riding Center, the bell tower, the train station by Guion, the Boathouse and the columbarium on Monument Hill. He worked on agriculture projects with farm manager Jan Osinga and helped renovate the president’s office suite and the athletic training room. He also added lights to the tennis courts.

His strong attention to detail is something his friends, family and co-workers remember strongly, and it can be seen in myriad ways across campus. When it came time to build the new riding center, the College had hired an architectural firm, but Chuck told Peter Daniel, Sweet Briar’s vice president and treasurer at the time, that the price the firm quoted was too high. He told Peter he could build it for half the amount, and he and Director of Riding Paul Cronin did just that. In building the riding center, Chuck oriented the building around Polaris, the North Star. “It was an artistic thing that was important to him,” says Bonnie. The Kestner home had also benefited from Chuck’s artistic bent. The trim is tapered to make the house appear more pointed, a technique borrowed from the ancient Greeks. Visitors to Admissions House can see that attention to detail, too. On the top corners of the door to the building are carved roses, which Chuck had contracted a carpenter to make. Few people have the chance to leave a physical legacy as lasting as the one Chuck left at Sweet Briar.

But he left more than a brick and mortar legacy at Sweet Briar. Chuck is remembered as a caring man, an indelible

member of the community and a person on whom others relied and trusted. He was a beloved boss, as well. In remembering Chuck at his memorial service in May, faculty member Jeff Key remarked that his staff often still referred to him as “Mr. Kestner,” even following his retirement in 1990. “Working for him made them better at whatever trade they practiced,” Jeff observed. “He knew every building inside and out. He knew its layout, the things that remodeling had changed, where the cracks were, and every pipe in the steam system.” Even in retirement, the College regularly called on Chuck’s encyclopedic knowledge of Sweet Briar’s campus, and he was always willing to lend a hand in finding a solution.

Bonnie remembers that Chuck used to go out onto the back porch of their house, which overlooks physical plant. While there, he would observe the goings-on, an activity he liked to call “snoopervising.”

He also loved spending time at the post office, power plant and campus safety. He called it “doing his rounds.” When there was an emergency on campus, he didn’t just send his staff, he went with them. For many years, he was often the first person new faculty and staff met when they moved to campus. He was always willing to lend a helping hand to move belongings in. He offered advice to faculty and staff who were building their own campus

homes, like Monica Dean, former director of college relations. “He was so helpful to us as we built our house,” she said. “He was always there to answer site or engineering or building questions, with a good dollop of advice to boot. I felt like his hand was on our house, everywhere.”

His detailed nature made its way into his home life, too. Bonnie says he liked to cook and that he did much of the family cooking. He enjoyed “fiddling” with taxes, “by hand,” Bonnie remembers. “Never on the computer,” she told us. “He was a meticulous record keeper of the family finances. It appealed to his detailed nature.”

He was also a deeply spiritual man and a beloved parishioner at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Clifford. And he demonstrated his faith every day in the way he lived his life.

That life is one that will be remembered by people far and wide — by his family, including his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren; those still on campus at Sweet Briar, those who have left; and those whose lives Chuck touched in many wonderful ways. After his passing, Bonnie received more than 100 sympathy cards, and a large number of devoted family members and friends attended his memorial service. “I was touched at the outpouring of love and sympathy from the Sweet Briar community,” she says.

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Preston Hodges Hill 3910 S Hillcrest Dr. Denver, Colo. 80237 edhillj@earthlink.net

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Carolyn Cannady Evans 21045 Cardinal Pond Ter Apt 119 Ashburn, VA 20147-6124

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Carolyn Cannady Evans continues to enjoy life in her retirement apartment in northern Virginia.

Three of her five children live in the area. Carolyn no longer travels alone.

One of her daughters takes her to visit the two daughters in NC or the family vacation in Montreat. Carolyn expects to see Debra Carrol Conery there in July.

Our class President, Caroline Casey Brandt, was the only classmate who attended our 70th Reunion. The campus looked splendid and beautiful weather prevailed.

President Woo welcomed all to Sweet Briar House where she has personalized it to make it her home.

Some Williams family pieces reside in the museum, which Caroline toured. She attended the annual memorial service, where deceased alumnae are remembered. That included ‘49ers: Katherine (Kitty) Hart Belew, Nancy Ellen Craig Carter, Alice Dahm Crane, Mary Goode (Goodie) Gear DiRaddo, Margaret (Mag) Towers Talman, Anne Fiske Thompson. Caroline spoke with Judy Easley Mak’s daughter recently. She said Judy has dementia and suffered a recent stroke. Judy is in a care center in Washington, D. C. Judy’s husband, Dayton Mak, died at 100 in 2019.

Preston Hill connected with Margaret (Peggy) Cromwell Talliaferro. She resides near Baltimore in the same retirement complex where Judy Baldwin Waxter and husband, Bill, lived prior to their deaths. Classmates will recall that the Waxter’s endowed at SBC an annual lecture

on environmental issues. Daughter Susan Waxter usually attends.

Margaret (Larry) Lawrence Simmons, now retired as headmistress of Trinity Preparatory School in Midland, TX, resides in her own home, continues volunteer work at the school and community. Due to a severe hearing loss, she rarely travels.

Katie Cox Reynolds and husband Phil, both over 90, live in a retirement home near Hartford, CT. Katie has been having physical therapy in preparation for a trip to Portugal. Their children decided they should not go alone so they all planned to make it a family trip.

I, Preston Hodges Hill, am happy to report that after turning 90 last October I still live in my Denver home of 54 years. I plan to spend several summer weeks at my Aspen condo as well as a visit to my son, Gene, and family at their home in Nantucket. Their daughter, Alyssa Hill, plans to be married there next May. I seldom travel alone due to both mobility and loss of hearing issues. I have a child or younger friend accompany me. I play bridge, exercise and do volunteer work.

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Pat Layne Winks 312 Arguello Blvd., Apt. 3 San Francisco, CA 94118 415-221-6779; (cell) 415-350-2994 plwinks@earthlink.net I’ve enjoyed getting back in touch with some of you, renewing old connections and making new ones. But I have fewer newsy tidbits to pass along. We travel less often — we let the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren come to us. We find our pleasures close to home: gardening, reading, getting together with a sadly smaller number of friends. But we continue to have things to look forward to. Some of us have expressed our determination to stay alive to vote in the 2020 election.

(I refrain from divulging our political preferences — but feelings are high.)

Cynthia Balch Barns no longer volunteers at the local homeless shelter and museum, but continues to garden and read widely (though not on digital devices). She has lived for many years in upstate New York, has been widowed for 30 years, but has the companionship of children, grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Becky Yerkes Rogers is thriving in her Florida home — without any medication. Her son lives up the road; three granddaughters are in California. She enjoys talking with old friends and new, and has embarked on a project of organizing pictures which bring back many good memories. Also still living in her North Carolina home of many years is Grace Jones Fishel.

She stays active volunteering, going to the Presbyterian Church she has attended for 67 years, and playing bridge. Joanne O’Malley Foster and Ginger Dreyfus Karren remain in their own apartments in the heart of Manhattan. I’m a bit envious, despite continuing to live in every tourist’s favorite city, San Francisco.

Trudy Kelly Morron lives with her daughter and son-in-law in Colorado. Though impaired by macular degeneration, Trudy takes enormous pleasure in audio books. She claims to have given up politics, since she can’t do anything about it. (But vote, vote!)

Nancy Hamel Clark enjoys visits from her son and daughter.

Daughter Ann travels around the country as an educational consultant for the Bush Foundation. Each year Ann surprises her mother with a trip to an undisclosed location, most recently to the Umstead Hotel and Spa. Son Jim’s Mayberry cookbook has just been reissued — interest in Andy Griffith has not diminished over the years. We are not the only ones who yearn for a quieter, gentler world!

Benita Phinizy Johnson has been working in the marketing de-

partment of a retirement facility since it opened 32 years ago. She will finally retire when she moves into the facility herself this fall.

Our wonderful class president Joanne Holbrook Patton has been diligently keeping up with you. Joanne heard from DeeDee Bell Lyon, who has been renovating the barn in her rural property, where she welcomed a visit from Kitchie Roseberry Tolleson. DeeDee continues to love life in the country, where she can enjoy her horses and dogs.

Joannie is often asked to participate in and speak at community celebrations — most recently commemorations of D-Day, Military Services Day and the American Legion centennial. She never lets physical complications hamper her volunteer activities or travels. She hosted a lunch in Washington, D.C., which included Thu Nguyen (whom we remember as Lillian Pham) and Polly Plumb DeButts. A recent visitor to Joanne’s Massachusetts home was Anne Hoagland Plumb, who now lives near her family in Wellesley, MA. Ann Whittingham Smith, who lives in Connecticut near her two daughters, recently visited her home state of Michigan. Many of us have wandered far from our college home base. I think Helen Graves Stahmann, who lives in Australia, has wandered the farthest afield.

The news that Linda Brackett had passed away elicited a beautiful message from Patty Lynas Ford ‘51.

When Patty went from California to Middlebury for French summer school, Linda and her Vermont family gave her a warm welcome: a place to stay and a job recommendation.

I also heard from Linda’s son Eben, who wrote: “I know Sweet Briar meant a lot to my mother” — and Linda meant a lot to us.

Please do write, email, text, call.

Joanne and I are happy to pass along your news to all the members of the Class of 1952.

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Bruce Watts Krucke 201 West 9th St. N.-Unit 184 Summerville, SC 29483 bwkrucke@gmail.com The only class death I know of for this month is Lucy Toy Gandy Clark who died in May in Ridgeland, MS. Lucy had been an avid reader and a competitive golfer. She had 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Sympathies and condolences from Lucy’s classmates to her family.

Some of you will have heard about our reunion already. We were a small, but fun, group.

Besides me, there were Mary Jane Roos Fenn, Faith Rahmer Croker, Bee Pinnell Pritchard, Jerry Driesbach Ludeke and Shirley Poulson Broyles and her husband Norris. We all stayed near each other in the Elston Inn and got to all the activities in the always available golf cart shuttles. We enjoyed the many things available to us, sat together at the meals and were thrilled at the convocation when our class won the prize for having given the most to the college since the last reunion.

Besides the help from most of you, our amount was hugely enlarged by our classmate Nancy Hay Mahoney, who left her entire estate to Sweet Briar on her death in 2018.

However at the end of the fiscal year, the class or 1959 had inched beyond us by a bit. But we had the wonderful percentage of giving!

50.4%! It’s very unusual for a class to go beyond 50% — it’s as important as the amount. We can be very proud of that. Thanks to everyone who gave. The only business that was taken care of at the reunion was the re-election of Mary Jane as class president and me as class secretary.

Several notes came from classmates who were unable to come to reunion. Ann Henry Lake Wilson would have come but had a knee replacement in March and wasn’t quite able yet. Maggie Mohlmon Degler wasn’t quite over a recent illness either. And Caroline “Kobo” Chobot Garner

example. Here’s what she did after our reunion: After a few days in Charlottesville with my sister’s daughter and husband, I flew off to the Dominican Republic for a wedding. My daughter-in-law’s nephew, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, was marrying his long time Dominican sweetheart so the family gathered. We had a delightful time at a Punta Cana Resort for a week. The wedding on the beach was lovely…with many strangers on either side and even lined up in the ocean watching and enjoying it with us. My current special news is having my 22-year-old San Francisco grandson living with me for the summer while he has an internship in Bakersfield. I had forgotten what fun it is to have a young one around.

It was exciting to see Shirley Poulson Broyles after all these years. She looks the same — we all said that about each other, but she really does! She has just welcomed her tenth grandchild, nine of whom are boys. She and Norris have their house on the market while they await the finishing of their new condo in Atlanta. It’s promised now in November — I told her to hope they are in by Christmas.

One of the best things for me about reunion was being able to see my sister, Virginia Watts Fournier ‘44, celebrate her 75th reunion! She was given special recognition as the only one from her class to attend. Otherwise no news from me is good news. I’m in the last few months of my second term as president of the Residents Council of our retirement community and enjoy singing in our chapel choir. I still do a lot of bird watching, although I don’t get to go birding anymore. This week I added the 58th bird to my yard list.

Thanks again to everyone who so generously gave to our wonderful Sweet Briar. It’s more beautiful than ever and is still giving young women a superior education.

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Emily Hunter Slingluff 1217 North Bay Shore Drive Virginia Beach, VA 23451-3714 emilyslingluff@aol.com 757-428-6167 The deaths of classmates are listed at the beginning of all the class notes, so we are told no need to list again. But, gosh, I had written a lot about Amanda for the spring magazine, and she died before it came out.

Amanda McThenia Iodice died April 22, 2019. Another sadness to report is that Catherine Cage Bruns died May 3, 2019. They both had good lives. And it seems that appreciation of life is wonderfully evident in our classmates.

Betty Byrne Gill Ware and Hudnall have been attending graduations of grandchildren and they continue to spend time at their place at Smith Mountain Lake and part of the winter in Naples, FL, and this summer, went back to Wrightsville Beach for a week with her children and grandchildren. She recently had lunch with Helen Smith Lewis ’54 who has moved to Richmond to be near her daughter. Also, she said that Barbara Pinnell Pritchard ’54 is moving this month to Texas to be near her daughter, and she will be missed. Betty Byrne is on committees to encourage better stewardship of the environment at The Country Club of Virginia and St. James’s Episcopal Church, both in Richmond. In July, she had her Sweet Briar suite mates, Jane Feltus Welch and Phyllis Joyner, visit her in Richmond, and a photo is enclosed. They went to several museums, had walks along the James River and fun being together. They all also spent some time with Pam Compton Ware at her home in Richmond. And maybe now, they are all planning to go to reunion! As maybe, many of us! Jane said it was so refreshing being with Sweet Briar classmates. She said she felt exuberant! She was wondering exactly why she felt so much joy being together, and why, even weeks later, she was still feeling the joy!

She drove almost 600 miles from Louisville, KY, to Richmond, VA, and back to Louisville and said she did not even feel tired after the long

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felt that getting around with a walker would be too difficult. For future note, there were walkers there this year. Peggy Jones Steuart couldn’t make reunion because she was at their place in Jamaica for three weeks, where they celebrated the wedding of one of their grandchildren.

Vaughan Inge Morrissette was awaiting the birth of her eighth great grandchild. All but one of them live nearby. One granddaughter is still in college — she will make her debut next year. All four of Vaughan’s children are fine and all live there in Mobile still.

Mary Hill Noble Caperton writes: I’m so sorry I wasn’t there to stand with ’54 at reunion. We had an event here I had to work on. I’m the chair of the activities committee and had to make sure everything got done. I am doing a little painting but not much.

I’m on too many committees here at University Village. We need younger people to move here so I can retire. I can’t remember if I told you that my son Douglas Day died in late Feb. of pancreatic cancer. He held out for a year and had a wonderful attitude through it all.

We and a multitude of his friends, siblings and cousins celebrated his life in late April at the farm of my daughter, Emily, and her husband, Chip Whitworth, near Lexington.

Doug loved to camp there and wanted his ashes to be buried under a tree in his favorite spot.

Emily had made an unglazed vessel for his ashes. Chip and Emily will retire there — they still have a few kids in grad school. Chip who is an MD, built a beautiful bank barn all by himself and they now have a part of the eventual house built too. Unbelievable views in all directions. The cottage now has Emily’s pottery studio and a bathroom on the first floor and studio apt — kitchen, bath and sleeping area on the second. They go over several days and nights a week.

They moved their 2 horses and 2 burros over there as well. Three of their 4 children live in Charlottesville so I see lots of them.

I can always count on Jerry Driesbach Ludeke to send some news. You should all follow her

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L to R: Suitemates at Sweet Briar Betty Byrne Gill Ware ’55, Jane Feltus Welch ’55 and Phyllis Joyner ’55 in Richmond at Amuse Restaurant at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, July 2019

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drives. We discussed why. I think I am not supposed to do philosophy on these notes, but I said to her that I think it is because of the intelligence of our classmates! Being together, talking about anything, is interesting instead of dull! Phyllis, too, so enjoyed the Richmond visit. At this time, she is still living in New York City. Always a deep thinker, Phyllis is studying the body alignment and concentrating on strengthening the body through Yoga and other ways.

Anne Williams Manchester, living in Cohasset, MA, writes that at her husband Eli had a surgical knee replacement recently and they hope that will get him back on skis and in tennis sneakers! Two grandchildren graduated this year — one from Wesleyan College in Connecticut and one from Milton Academy just outside Boston. The first graduate, Charlie is looking for a job in New York and the second, Laura, will enter Hamilton College in September.

Now only one grand will be in high school next year. She said they have an apartment nearby and attended plays, games and other activities for years, all at the same institution, and will miss it so much! Anne says she sends love to all.

Nancy Anderson Shepard says it is always good to hear Sweet Briar news. She writes that she is healthy and happy and still loves living in a retirement community, which she says is very much like campus life without any pressure! And she says reunion would be fun to attend if she can figure out the logistics! So may-

be she will be there, and maybe lots of us will be there, too!

Mary Boyd Murray Trussell is so appreciating every minute of life. Her husband, George, has had medical problems and is taking chemo, but Mary Boyd says he is getting along very well and he is very active. They are living in the house they built years ago in Columbus, GA, and they also spend lots of time at the place they have had for some time in Panama City Beach, FL, right on the Gulf. One son and wife live in Panama City Beach and have two sons, and the other son and wife live in Columbus and have three sons. So Mary Boyd and George have two sons and five grandsons!

Mary Boyd helps with praying at the weekly prayer breakfasts at her church in Columbus.

Ethel Green Banta is enjoying life in Natchez, and continuing to be close to her younger sister, Ruth Ellen Green Calhoun ‘57, who many of us remember, and who also lives there in one of the beautiful old plantations as does Ethel. Ethel’s husband, Bruce, died fifty years ago, and after that, she moved back to Natchez. In June, Ethel spent two weeks in Seattle with her youngest daughter, Kate, and said it is easy getting there on a non-stop flight, Air Alaska, from New Orleans! Also she visits Richmond to see her daughter, Alice, who enjoys her three children and also enjoys her veterinarian work there. Ethel’s son, Jim, also in Richmond, is now retired from being vice president of Capital One in

Richmond and he has a daughter, Daisy, a graduate of Williams, who is now a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil.

She says she so likes going to Pilates three times a week and she likes her monthly book club. She is also a reader at Trinity Episcopal Church there. She said she does keep up with Chase Lane Bruns’ children, too.

Sweet Briar connections often seem to last a lifetime.

Nella Gray Barkley, is still doing her work with helping young people with their pursuits in life. She says all of her grandchildren have finished the University of Virginia now.

She went to Spain in June with the board of a School at the College of Charleston. She sits on that board.

Her life is full.

Rebecca Faxon Knowles, Bexie, sold her wonderful condo in Naples, FL, and is returning full-time to the wonderful CCRC in Maine, where she spent the past three summers. She says she will miss all her tennis and pool pals in Naples, her active and involved Episcopal parish there, and the superb Naples Philharmonic. Still, she plans to rejoin committees, workouts and strong friendships with terrific people at Piper Shores!

Kay Roberts McHaney, who was only with us at Sweet Briar for two years, but appreciated it and the friends there, too, writes that she may come to reunion, which would be a treat for the rest of us who will be there! She writes that she feels blessed to have good health at this time. She says she tries to keep up with tai chi and pilates classes during the week. Kay’s husband, Jim, who had been involved with the newspaper her family owned, is not well, but Kay does continue to be involved, has an office there and serves on the editorial board and the ethics committee at the newspaper. That paper, the Victoria Advocate, is Texas’ oldest newspaper in continuous operation since 1846. Her family began their ownership in 1942. Also, Kay is secretary of the M. Roberts Media board which is made up their newspapers owned in Victoria and in the east Texas towns of Longview, Tyler, Kilgore, Marshall and Carthage.

Her youngest son is the publisher in Longview, TX. Her brother and Kay are the family representatives in Victoria. She says, with the papers,

they are combining or consolidating in areas that make sense, in order to remain viable so they can continue to maintain their “watchdog” of government role. As she says, democracy will be challenged if we only get fake news. Wow, what an important classmate we have in Kay! We want honest news surely. Kay continues to travel and is also very involved in community affairs in Victoria. Their Bach Festival was there in June, and Kay has been part of that since its beginning 44 years ago. She was told that they are among the top three Bach festivals in the nation. She and her husband have three other children, two in Austin and one in Victoria, and a dozen grandchildren.

Emily Hunter Slingluff, in Virginia Beach, me! It is a treat to be in touch with wonderful classmates!

Am thinking reunion, 65th? Maybe so? Everybody? Why not? All is well here. My new book, “Choosing Happiness,” is on Amazon in kindle and paperback. This one is about hatred, the cause and the cure! I continue to speak and write about the importance of the job of parenting.

And oh, smart classmates, please keep sending me info about you, so we will still be connected! And think about reunion coming up! It seems that many of us are planning to go!

May 2020!

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Mary Ann H. Willingham P.O. Box 728 Skyland, NC 28776-0728 hicklinw@bellsouth.net Not only did I hear our sad news from St. Catherine’s School in Richmond but also from Helen Turner Murphy (who thoughtfully enclosed the obituary) and Jean Dowdy Von Schilling. Betsy Parker Paul died June 24, 2019. Betsy is survived by 5 children and 12 grandchildren. A lifelong resident of Richmond, she was a graduate of St. Catherine’s.

She loved her cottage, “Oak Haven,” at Gwynn’s Island, VA, and delighted in having friends visit there. Betsy was an avidly successful gardener and a master Bridge player, which brings back memories of late nights in the smoke filled Grammar and Randolph. Commons during our days at SBC. Her joy and passion

CLASS NOTES hopes all our classmates are out there having fun by any definition.

Jane Slack Sigloh writes that she and her husband still reside at Westminster-Canterbury in Charlottesville. What they like most about being there is the sense of community with their 282 “neighbors!”

Nancy Salisbury Spencer recently saw Jane Sigloh in Winston Salem at a funeral in which Jane participated. She and husband Jimmy moved to Arbor Acres Retirement Community in Winston-Salem in January. She says it was hard leaving her home of 40 some years and more especially her beloved garden. They are adjusting well, have a comfortable house and a lot of friends there.

They recently attended the baptism of a great grandchild in Atlanta, then a grand daughter’s destination wedding in Jackson Hole, a “Fairy Tale Event.” In July they enjoyed their annual family beach vacation.

Ann Adams Greer continues in “her old age” to give piano recitals in her home for dear friends who seem to enjoy hearing an old lady share Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Liset.

She hopes her piano teachers at SBC are smiling down on her, because it was at SBC that these seeds were planted. Ann sends love to all!

Nancy Ettinger Minor and I had a wonderful visit in June as she traveled back to her retirement home in Hilton Head from nearby Cashiers on NC. I was reminded how longterm friendships “just pick up where they leave off.” Nancy and her husband Raleigh, now deceased, once lived in Baltimore. So our friendship has continued since SBC. Old friendships are the best, and face it, we are old! Nancie Howe Roberts writes that for the last 24 years they have lived in a very full service retirement home in Toledo. They have a bus available to take residents into Toledo for art, theater, museums, sports etc. The food is great and varied; the residents interesting and fun. Many of them serve on various committees, so they have a big say in what goes on. They have in house beauty and barber shops. She suggests that we have a mini reunion in 2020 someplace like DC or NC to prepare for 2021.

Meredith Smyth Grider again spent the summer in Michigan with her family. Her health has been compromised by a disease that affects

her balance and, after 4 years she says it is getting worse. For the past 7 years, she has lived in a retirement community near 2 daughters who live in Louisville. Her other daughter lives in Charlotte. Meredith still has fun, mostly with family. She misses many friends now deceased, noting the great life she and her friends have had together. She envisions that her friends cannot wait for her to join them!

Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride writes that she and her husband continue to do reasonably well even with Richard having Parkinson’s. They went to NYC in May for Grandparents Day to see son Trevor’s (and wife, Sara’s) children participate in school activities. Son Steven lives in nearby VA. Although son Kevin (wife Brett) live on the West Coast, they visit frequently.

I have recently had summer dinners with Catherine Lotterhos Mills and her husband Henry, as well as Rose Montgomery Johnston, who come to the western NC mountains in the summer. Catherine and Henry are devoting a lot of time to physical therapy to remedy ravages of old age, and indeed are doing well!

By the time you are reading this, Rose will have recovered from a broken hip suffered in Durham when she came for the high school graduation of a granddaughter in May. Did it exercising in her hotel room!

(There must be a lesson in all this!)

Fortunately, she was in Durham and was able to have a very successful operation at the Duke Hospital. She spent much of the summer recuperating in her mountain house. She says this experience has been very humbling, making her even more aware how precious and fragile life really is. She is thrilled to know that SBC is still moving toward health and prosperity!

As for me I still live in my house and still have my gardens, with help. I am very fortunate to be blessed with good health, a beautiful place to live and very caring daughters. I travel so visit them in GA, MD and NYC frequently as well as various other trips.

I still drive long distances, and will choose that over air travel any day.

Definitely fly to NYC however!

I, for one, am looking forward to our 2021 Reunion! Where have all these years gone?

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Eleanor St. Clair Thorp 3 Stoneleigh #6D Bronxville, N.Y. 10708 schatzethorp@gmail.com Welcome to the fall Sweet Briar Alumnae Magazine. My thanks to all of you who responded to my pleas for news, and I hope that I will hear from the rest of you for the next edition. As you read and catch up with news from your classmates, you will realize how important it is to communicate with our college friends, as well as how busy and productive our classmates are and have been.

First, and very important, is the news from Mimi Garrard that she was just recently awarded the Sweet Briar Distinguished Alumnae Award, for which we all congratulate Mimi. Her film “Time 2019” won first place at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival in India, and she continues to show her work twice a month on Manhattan Neighborhood Network.

Ann McCullough Floyd has lived in Murrell’s Inlet, SC, since she and her husband moved there when they were first married. Jack died 9 years ago, but she has kept the house and is happy to be down south. She keeps up with her neighboring classmates and would love to hear from you all.

Eleanor Cain Pope sent a very interesting report on the special public television program on Robert Shaw which included much of his life with his wife, Caroline Sauls Shaw. The program went into detail about how important their marriage was, and how much they meant to each other.

There is not room enough to share the many times Eleanor and Caroline met up together, but give her a call to get the full story! Eleanor and her husband Bill are still living in Columbia, SC. Ironically, Mollie Archer Payne sent an email the same day, telling me about the program which was on American Masters PBS, titled “Robert Shaw Series/Special.” Mollie still spends her summers in Monterey and enjoys the very bucolic life on the farm.

Ethel Ogden Burwell reports that she is still very involved with her church and community work.

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for life will be missed by all of us who were fortunate enough to have known her.

Helen Turner Murphy also sent a note saying she and Tayloe are still in their home on a farm by the lower Potomac River. They are 70 miles from Richmond where they used to go for meetings and parties, but now they go for doctors’ appointments and funerals. Helen is very grateful that their physical maladies are nonlife threatening.

Jean Von Schilling and her husband Dutch, having moved from their VA farm last fall, now reside in a historical area of Boca Grande, FL. Jean writes that it was Betsy Parker Paul who introduced her to her husband 55 years ago! Jean also stays in touch with Kitty Harrison who recently showed Jean and Dutch‘s daughter around Chapel Hill.

Lee Chang Crozier wrote that she and her husband, Al, recently attended their youngest grandchild’s graduation from UCLA which was very impressive. Her granddaughter now works for Lucas film, digital media and marketing. Lee also tells us that her cousin, Anna Chao Pai ‘57 has recently published her memoirs, “From Manchurian Princess to American Dream,” which includes accounts of Chip’s life and friends at SBC. Lee is involved in music (choir and piano), reading good books and is blessed with staying pretty healthy.

[Editor’s note: Chip did a book reading and signing during Sweet Briar’s Founders’ Day celebration in September.]

Bunny Burwell Nesbit considers herself very lucky to have lived the past 16 years in a retirement facility in Sarasota, FL. She comes and goes as she pleases, but knows that she will have help if she needs it. The health care there is 5 star, plus great food and life style. She also enjoys ballet, opera and symphony offered in Sarasota. Her daughter tells Bunny that Bunny’s living arrangements are the best gift Bunny ever gave her!

Janet Monroe Marshall says that her life in her retirement community in Ellicott City, MD, explodes in the summer! Who knew that she would be competing in corn hole and pickle ball? Much fun she says, and that she is finding a new definition for the word “inconsistency” as well as a level of humility that she has never before had to embrace and laugh about. She

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major at Wheaton College, spent her spring semester in Orvieto, Italy, and absorbed all of the spectacular art from the ancient days to modern works. Ethel splits her time between her Grosse Pointe, MI, home of 55 years and her Lexington, VA, home of five years. She loves both and welcomes visitors.

Mary Taylor Swing and husband Bill are still very involved with the United Religious Initiative (he is founder and president), which is now in 109 countries and has more than 800 cooperation circles. She wrote that they had just finished a two-day conference at Stanford, honoring George and Charlotte Shultz, longtime supporters of, and contributors to URI. Mary and Bill are still in Burlingame, CA, but spend a lot of time on the road.

Jane McAllister is still living in Alto, NM. Her husband passed away ten years ago, but she elected to stay where she is rather than go back to Fort Worth. Her children are scattered, one in CA and one nearby in NM. Her oldest passed away a year ago. Jane keeps busy with bridge, church activities, volunteering for hospice and working part time for a friend.

Beedy Tatlow Ritchie and her husband celebrated their 75th anniversary with a wonderful trip to Paris and a cruise down to Normandy. In May they went to New York City to greet and meet their new 4 month-old grandson Charles, and then in June to granddaughter’s graduation from pre-school. They will be in Michigan during the summer and then take an Amtrak 3-day trip across the northern part of the United States. Sounds very busy, but I know, from my emails that Beedy is very good about keeping up with her classmates!

Lanny Tuttle Webster sent another reference to the PBS special about Robert Shaw which she was hoping to watch. She will be going with her family this summer back to Montana for a family vacation and she is looking forward to that.

Lynn Crosby Gamill lost her husband, Stewart, on Oct. 5, 2017 and is still catching up after 57 years of being married. She has 3 children and 6 grandchildren, scattered around. Her list of her main endeavors is too long to list, but she is keeping busy and very involved with her

community. Lynn reports that she is the only surviving member of her Junior Year Abroad Program!

Julie Booth Perry reappeared to me through a mutual friend who lives up in Maine where Julie has been living since Charlie retired in 1993. Her 3 children are all married, one living in Atlanta, one in Australia and one in Washington, DC. There are 3 grandchildren, one getting married in September. Good news for me is that Julie and I will have the chance to get together in August when Peter and I will go to Maine to stay and visit with the mutual friends and the Perrys.

Between her home on Skidaway Island, GA, and her home in Bay Head, NJ, Lynn Prior Harrington enjoys a good time with her friends, her gardening, her tennis, her golf and her family. Her daughter Dana, is still in Atlanta with husband and family, and Sarah is in NJ with her husband Bill and children. They all manage to get to both GA and NJ to visit their mother/grandmother.

Penny Meighan Martin continues to enjoy life in Ashaway, RI, where Peter and I had a great visit with her this summer. Penny’s garden is a thing of beauty, and she obviously puts a lot of time and energy into its productivity. As well as gardening, Penny is very involved with her painting, attending art classes and learning new techniques. She is very talented! Penny also had a knee replacement last spring from which she is fully recovered.

Eleanor St. Clair Thorp (that’s me) and husband Peter continue to spend summers on Cape Cod and are back in Bronxville, NY, for the rest of the year. All 3 daughters and 7 grandchildren are thriving. Our latest news is that our grandson Henry Rentz graduated in June from the Severn School and is now enrolled at the US Naval Academy as a midshipman. A big commitment, but he is enjoying all aspects, especially in January, hoping to play on the freshman lacrosse team. I hope you all have a wonderful fall and winter, and I will be barking at your back door in January, asking for news for our spring magazine!

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Ali Wood Thompson 89 Pukolu Way Wailea, HI 96753-7710 travisnali808@gmail.com Jana Bekins Anderson: Pretty quiet here in the Northwest. I work in my garden and ride my horses and go to the shows with them. At 82, I’m not very competitive but I love it.

It takes me twice as long to complete my pattern but I’m still finishing the course and still getting points. To all my classmates: call if you ever get to Seattle.

Betsy Colwill Wiegers: In a way, I wish I could have been at the reunion, but a broken pelvis precluded me. Am well on the mend and am back to my old feisty self.

Tricia Coxe Ware: My daughter Mary Ware Gibson ‘83 and I just returned from a wonderful trip visiting my granddaughter, Mary’s daughter in Lake Tahoe, CA. Back in Charlotte I had a visit with Betsy Smith White. I am sorry that more weren’t there at the reunion, but I enjoyed seeing those that did return. I agree with you and Travis. The school is very impressive, and I like the direction it is taking.

Betsy Duke Seaman: Loved being at SBC and seeing classmates — just wish there had been more there!

Had a most enjoyable telephone reunion with Kathy Tyler Sheldon.

Many thanks to Ali and to Elizabeth for leading us and agreeing to continue doing so.

Alice Cary Farmer Brown: Greetings to dear Ali and Elizabeth and all classmates, I have loved hearing about our 60th reunion from many of you and thanks for the wonderful photos. Obviously, you enjoyed a very special time together.

I HATED not to be with you. Lee and I celebrated our 60th Wedding Anniversary cruising on the Yangtze River with great fanfare by our 12 travelling companions. Our entire trip in China was our BEST one yet. We recommend going. Before we left, our 6th of 8 grandchildren graduated from college — 2 more to go. AND, I had a great lunch in New York with Judy Welton Sargent and Di Doscher Spurdle — two of Sweet Briar’s most ardent supporters. We are just back in Vienna now after our superb 12 days in China. It

was a fabulous experience as we were taught and shown so much. I did HATE to miss being with all of you ….so happy you had a marvelous time together. Much LOVE. Penny Fisher Duncklee: I have not done much lately. But, in July I drove to Michigan to help my younger sister celebrate her 40-year partnership by getting officially married to her sweetie. Then in August I get to teach a tiny 2 hour watercolor workshop about painting clouds. For the last couple of months, I have had fun being a “weather watcher” and taking photos of weather and sending them to the local NBC TV station. It is always fun when one of my pictures gets selected for the evening weather report.

Courtney Gibson Pelley: My only news is that after 10 months and 5 days (but who is counting) we have moved back into our hurricane-damaged house. Gave up on getting the floors replaced and refinished. This is pitiful news but good news for us!

Meriwether Hagerty Rumrill: Probably too late, not news, but I feel so very lucky to be healthy and working at a job I Love and keep learning.

And wonderful family and friends.

Gay Hart Gaines: I was proud of our class and gave a large donation for our 60th. I think President Woo is fabulous and if anyone can turn it around, she will! She has made huge progress, but the question remains, how to attract top girls to our remote campus going forward. Been visiting our youngest daughter and her family in Blue Hill, ME, and it has been wonderful fun. I’ve eaten enough lobster for a year! Stanley and I also drove to Northeast Harbor to stay with a friend for three nights and saw many of our Palm Beach pals and friends from the west coast of FL. It is a beautiful part of the world and we have had lovely weather until today, when we have a soft, cooling rain. We are flying to Paris in August for one week to see a dear French friend who is ailing, and also to celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary, Aug. 28! (Gulp!) We will be in at our home Washington, DC, for September and return to Palm Beach in October. My “Founders and Us” series that I started at the Four Arts in Palm Beach will be going into its fourth year in 2020 and I have four wonderful speakers

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Plunkers Band at a local nursing home with Ali Thompson ’59 in pink, 3rd from the right Judy Welton Sargent ’59 and her family in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a Smithsonian family trip

Betsy Smith White ’59 and Tricia Coxe Ware ’59 visited in Charlotte.

Judy Welton Sargent’s family in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a Smithsonian family trip

coming: Dr. Joanne Freeman from Yale, Judge Ginsburg from DC, Rick Atkinson whose latest book, “The British are Coming,” is fabulous and the first of his latest trilogy and Stacy Schiff who received the Washington Book Prize at Mount Vernon years ago for her marvelous book, “A Great Improvisation.” All of our lectures have been sold out and I am thrilled.

I enjoyed being back at SBC for our 60th.

Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb: I wish that many more of you could have been with Ali and me and our husbands at Sweet Briar for the 60th reunion. The campus was as beautiful as ever, and it was exciting to hear President Woo discuss new initiatives for both the curriculum for students and the use of our thousands of acres of land. Thanks to all of you who supported our class gift to the Sweet Briar fund — more than $561,000 dollars! We owe special thanks to Alice Cary Farmer Brown and her family for their generous and

inspiring challenge grant.

Isa Mary Lowe Zieglar: I plan to be mostly in California for the summer. I did make a trip to Oregon to see the famous Shakespeare theater there. I have been in touch with Betsy Salisbury Creekmore, Virginia McKeithen Kitchen.

Virginia MacKethan Kitchin: Although there not that many of us at the reunion, there were enough to make it lots of fun. Interesting news that SBC is now growing the grape vines to make its own wine.

Ginny Marchant Noyes: WOWOWOW!! You all look great and I was able to establish a “Who’s who?” without a sneak-peek at your annotations! So sorry to miss the reunion and hope we can all “go like 70” in a few years. Meanwhile thanks to Ali and Elizabeth for keeping us together through the years and across the miles.

Lizora Miller Yonce: Lizora was hoping to go to the reunion but didn’t make it.

Liz Myerink Lord: So sorry to miss reunion but I enjoyed the photos…it was fun to see old SBC classmates again!

Judy Nevins LeHardy: Sad to report that Judy’s husband, Ward, died on July 12, 2019.

Fleming Parker Rutledge: Fleming writes to say that she was truly sorry to miss the reunion but travelling to Sweet Briar from the New York suburbs is a challenge, and she is really played out after travelling non-stop for three months. Her news is always the same, she writes, “except that this time I’m going further afield: this winter I am to lecture and preach in London, at Oxford, and in at least one cathedral in England. Later next year, deep-dyed Protestant that I am, I’m to teach at one of the Pontifical Colleges of the Vatican in Rome. I never thought I’d get back to Rome, which I love, so I’m thrilled. Of course, this all depends on my health, and Dick’s.

So far, so good, but we are definitely

Judy Sorley Chalmers-Simpson ’59 at Reunion

Jana Bekins Anderson ’59 at the Nampa show in April 2019

feeling my age! I’m trying to write another book, but my energy for such undertakings is not what it was.

Warmest wishes to my similarly afflicted classmates!”

Susan Perry Farmer: We were in Hawaii…just for a week in Kauai, but oh, how I love being there. This time we had our middle son and d-i-l and their 3 sons with us because they had a wedding to attend. Now I’m not sure we’ll ever get to Hawaii again without them…we had a marvelous week of sun, surf, food and golf. Jerry and I are getting ready for our motor trip to Wyoming places along the way. Both of us enjoy the driving. We turn up the radio and just zoom along with Willie Nelson, stopping here and there to meet up with old friends. In August we’ll travel to Canton, Ohio to witness our youngest son being inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame. He’s not a football player, but a journalist for the LA Times and was selected to receive the McCann honor this year.

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Eleanor Read Rice: Has a new email: e.burns4@icloud.com Debbie Von Reischach Swan Snyder: Still boarding in Maine at 83 with 11-year old grandson climbing aboard.

Ginny Robinson Harris: My daughter, Sweet Briar, ‘88, was just in Hawaii for her continuing education conference with husband in tow! She is a vet and has these somewhere each year. Actually, she has been there before, but her husband, who has been almost everywhere on the globe, had never been to Hawaii.

I am sorry to report that the weather was not up to usual. Weather here in mountains of NC, wet, wet and more wet...snow.

Tabb Thornton Farinholt: I made it to our 60th with a few of us (“we precious few”) and continue to be grateful for Sweet Briar in my life and happy to see it in good hands now, on the upswing, fulfilling Indiana’s dream for young women.

I love envisioning the beehives and vineyards emerging. I continue to live both in Richmond and by the Ware River, a peripatetic condition that just seems necessary if nutty.

Kathy Tyler Sheldon: We, the family, are all fine and just glad to finally see some sunshine here up north. It might interest some to hear I am teaching in a diploma program in theology and ministry at a distance education class from our seminary just to say we can still be a bit useful over 80! I did appreciate your coverage of the reunion.

Judy Welton Sargent: I was in NYC for a week in May for the opening of the new Liberty Museum at the Statue of Liberty. It is fabulous! Don’t miss it the next time you are in the city. While I was in New York, Di Doscher Spurdle and I went to see a few plays, to a performance at the ABT, dined in several good restaurants and had lunch with Alice Cary Farmer Brown. It was such fun to be together, we laughed and talked until the wait staff had to see us out. In June I went on a trip to the Normandy Beaches and a Seine River Cruise which was lovely. It was very moving to be at the beaches and the cemetery during the 75th year anniversary of the invasion. We visited a marvelous World War II museum as well. The highlights of the cruise were seeing Monet’s home and gardens and cruising the Seine in

Paris after dark, seeing all the lights and people gathered celebrating the summer solstice. From Paris I went to London for 3 days before meeting my family in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a Smithsonian family trip. We had a fabulous time seeing the southern part of the country, the lava fields, volcanos, a plant where they make electricity using thermal waters, geysers, waterfalls, a fascinating Lava Museum, Viking museum, the divide where the tectonic plates meet, etc. My family climbed a glacier, and I joined them in walking into a tunnel in a glacier, clad in waterproof clothing, with walking sticks and crampons. We also went into the thermal waters of the Blue Lagoon.

My 11-year-old grandson, John had a lot of fun with the other kids on the trip. If you find yourself in or near Austin, please give me a call.

Ali Wood Thompson: Well, the reunion was wonderful and every one of us (10) came away with a very good feeling about the Patch. There were so many wonderful changes and frankly, I will donate with pleasure in the future! I retired from the Kona Group, which competes every year in the Senior Hula Festival over in Kona on the Big Island. It was due to lightheadedness (from problems in the inner ears). After 25 years of competition, it is time to relax!

Then, since reunion was coming up, we decided to combine it with a trip abroad. We went up to Maine to stay at my daughter’s place in Windham and then took her to Ireland — which was really fun. After meeting up with our 2 granddaughters in Boston for dinner, we flew south to experience the delightful reunion.

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Lura Coleman Wampler 1406 Thomas Rd. Wayne, PA 19087-1318 lcwampler@comcast.net Dinny Muldaur Dozier: I will be in L.A. shooting a film this fall.

My director and leading man worked with me in 1968 making the film “The Lawyer” at Paramount. This is a tiny budget film, but it should be fun working again! I will also be racing my boat all summer!

Carolyn Gough Harding: Nothing new except turning 80! Dick is not as mobile as before, so we are not

traveling as much. Our only trip this year will be to Cape Cod to visit my 94-year-old sister.

Anne Duguid Knol: I was your St Andrews student for a year and as time goes by, I appreciate more and more the wonderful friendships I had there, the beautiful campus and everything I learned. And I shall never ever forget Paint and Patches which started me off on my shortlived theatrical career before I became a news reporter and features writer. I have never made it back but do still feel connected. I now work as a freelance fiction editor for the historical department of The Wild Rose Press in New York. I would love to see anyone coming to the UK who wants to make the journey to our little smallholding on the Isle of Wight.

Barbara Murphy Hale: My dear Phil died in March, still practicing law after 63 years. The entire family, including two great granddaughters, came for his funeral and gave him a most appropriate send off. Crazy, chaotic, and filled with love. I am visiting my sister near Seattle and good friends in Lake Arrowhead, California the first two weeks of July. Can’t find words to describe my loss.

Winkie Wimbish Chalfant: Ed and I travelled in June from Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, to Sedgwick, ME, where we were greeted by the beauty of late arriving spring. We are well and looking forward to the addition of Alexis, an adorable 6-year-old miniature poodle, to our family this week.

Nina Newton Farriss: I am very impressed with the NEW SWEET BRIAR! So glad we vixens helped to make it possible!

Betsy Buechner Morris: I find my 80s to be exhilarating. The old passions remain: husband, kids, grandkids, skiing, sailing, music. I’ve just added a new one: Pickleball. It’s a hoot!

Elizabeth Meade Howard: I am lucky to be upright and still blowing out the birthday candles!’ (Editorial note: She wants no mention of her award-winning book, “Aging Famously”, but I am urging all to read it) Margot Saur Meyer: I continue to live in upstate New Jersey where I am involved with my secondary school, The Kent Place School.

Gail Hayman Wilson: Two

years ago, John and I moved into a new 55+ active adult community in Ashburn, in northern VA, where we find it easy to make friends because all moved in at the same time for the same reason. We are close to our daughter and her one 3-year-old child with another due in October. Is there a prize for the youngest grandchild due just before I turn 80?

Jane Tatman Walker: Last week I passed the Indianapolis Alumnae Club leadership on to the next generation after many years. I enjoyed a lunch visit in Florida last winter with Linda Sims Newmark and co-hosted an alumnae luncheon in University Park, FL, in January.

Winnie Ward: I am certainly not as spry as I once was; everything is now mini hiking, mini exercising and so on. My two grandchildren are teenagers with one in college. Can’t believe it!

Sue Styer Cahill: I’m still golfing, playing tennis and downhill skiing... plan on skiing at least once more in Aspen/Snowmass with son Tor, grandchildren and Bessie Bulkley Bradley 61’.

Nancy Corson Gibbes: I am still playing tennis, visiting art museums and galleries and enjoying folk and Americana local bands. I went to Utila (island of Honduras), a beautiful island paradise out of the 60s, for snorkeling and scuba diving with daughter, and since then my traveling has included trips to visit daughters and families in Charleston and Gainesville, GA. I have 2 grands attending GA Tech and Spoleto.

Rhett Ball Thagard: Still alive and still kicking! Life is sweet.

Barbara Beam Denison: We are in the same Maryland house after 53 years — the elders of the neighborhood. George is still lobbying on the Hill and I am painting, playing some golf and spending time at the gym.

Peggy Cook Lunt: David and I have slowed down a lot from travels and enjoy life here in Santa Fe — we’ve been married 16 years. I attended my granddaughter Molly’s graduation from Yale in May. I was amazed to see a graduation this large thinking back on how it was for us.

Patti Powell Pusey: We just had 45 family members from CA, FL and Richmond for a 3-day family reunion. We had delicious dinners, and a morning at Hollywood Cemetery where Puseys and Powells are

buried. Now to recover and enjoy weekends at my river home and the beach.

Linda Sims Grady Newmark: I have enjoyed travels to SBC these past 3 years; my granddaughter, Mary Grace Williams, graduates in May 2020. I enjoyed seeing Margot McKee in MD and Frank and Jane Tatman Walker in FL. I also see Ann Crowell Lemmon at our Atlanta book club. I am still living on Lake Keowee where I play golf and bridge, walk two miles each day and participate in water aerobics.

Maline Gilbert McCalla: I considered rushing out to do some wonderful and worthy-of-conveying activity or contribution. NO luck.

Mostly I hide inside to avoid the Texas summer heat, making lists each night of things that need to be done and ignoring almost all the next day. (Editorial note. She still has her wonderful sense of humor!)

Teddy Hill: Liz (Few Penfield) and I are enjoying easy life at The Marshes (Savannah area) most of the year and ‘roughing’ it in our cabin in Carbondale, CO, in the summer.

Also traveling with family-the 80s, the 50s (grown children) and the 20s (grown grandchildren) to Edisto Beach in SC and the Biennale in Venice this last June.

Lucy Martin Gianino: I have had a busy year as co-president of a volunteer organization called NYC Parents in Action. It services the Independent School Community with a host of educative lectures, seminars and Parent Talks as parents seek to rear their children in today’s complicated world. Meanwhile, I keep on my acting hat working with several TV and theatre appearances and my favorite annual gig called VISIBLE INK each spring at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. (Look it up on U Tube). Finally, it’s a treat for Jack and me to have all 6 of our grandchildren (ages 2-15) and their parents with us at the beach over the summer. Oh, yes, and I still have my purple hair.

Lura Coleman Wampler: First I would like to say that without exception, everyone who wrote asked me to send love to all, so here it comes!

Fred and I continue to board horses and attempt to keep up with our pre-revolutionary house, grounds and gardens in Wayne, PA. We have

been here almost 50 years and are now taking down trees that we planted! To move or stay here is a recurring question! I am on the Alumni Council of The Shipley School, serve in many capacities at our church and am a judge of photography for area clubs. I hope to see many of you at our 60th reunion next May! We left our 55th crying because we learned the college was closing – let’s return to celebrate its renaissance!

On a sad note, Patti Pusey wrote back in March to say she saw an obituary for Mollie McDonald in the Richmond Times Dispatch. She was living in California.

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Julie O’Neil Arnheim 41 Pitt St. Charleston, SC 29401 jarnheim@princeton.edu Bess Hutchins Sharland 1724 Aberdeen Circle Crofton, MD 21114 thefroghall@verizon.net Emailing from Ecuador where she was celebrating the big 80 with family, Eleanor Briggs very likely took fabulous nature photos too. A professional photographer and photojournalist, Eleanor travels across Southeast Asia and South America photographing for herself and for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) for which she has been both photographer and board member for over 20 years. Fluent in French and Khmer, her camera has sought out the fauna and flora of Cambodia, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam and Ecuador since 1991.Through her work, she has become an ambassador for endangered species, and she is intensely interested in environmental issues worldwide. Returning year after year to WCS’s remote project sites, she is warmly welcomed by many longtime friends. “Tonle Sap, the Heart of Cambodia’s Natural Heritage,” written by Colin Poole, includes 225 of Eleanor’s photographs.

At home, she supports local artists of NH as a board member of the MacDowell Colony and maintains a gallery in her studio in Harrisville Cheshire Mills.

Mary Cosby Rinehart shares exciting news. She and Bruce are

moving from Charlotte to Vero Beach, FL, in early January 2020 to a wonderful senior club community, Oak Harbor. “It has all the amenities of the best retirement homes and we will own our house — 3200 sq. ft. — on a golf course. We plan on spending six months down there and six months in Linville, our summer home. Everything at Oak Harbor is à la carte, so we only pay for meals as we eat them. We are very excited, as we will be able to be outdoors all the time with great food and three golf courses. There is full health care if needed. We will continue our membership at the Moorings Yacht and Country Club. A new project, new friends and fun! I am sure there will be some SBC alums down there!”

Rue Wallace Judd, widowed in 2016 when Ardon passed away after their 50-year marriage, is back in DC. She has recently seen classmates Nancy Coppedge Lynn, Willia Fales Eckerberg, Sally Mathiason Prince and Celia Williams Dunn.

Mary Denny Scott Wray also sees the peripatetic Celia when she passes through Richmond and sees Babs Childrey Fowler and Judy Greer Schulz as often as possible. She catches up with Molly Haskell and Jeannie Bounds Hamilton when in NYC. Mary Denny’s family is doing well. She has two college graduate grandchildren ( JMU and UVA), 3 currently in college and one still in high school. Life is good, as she proclaims, since settled into a retirement spot in Richmond where she has many friends and some family. Mary Denny has lots to do, but she is always open to having more classmates visit. She encourages us, “Come to Richmond!” Also in Richmond, Susie Prichard Pace had an exciting spring with a granddaughter’s wedding and two more grands’ high school graduations — and off to college! “I hope they have as wonderful times as I had at SBC. I am hoping to come to our 60th!”

In Atlanta, Margaret Storey Wasson and Ed are well but do admit to slowing down “a teensy bit.”

Ed still plays doubles tennis and does some exercise classes while Margaret loves mat Pilates and walking, particularly in Cashiers, NC. “We spend the summer in Cashiers and also come frequently year round.

My daughter, Win, lives in and loves

Colorado where she is with Chase in the Monument/Colorado Springs area. My son, daughter-in-law and my two wonderful grandsons (17 and 15) are in Atlanta, so we see them and most of their games! We feel blessed.”

Bee Newman Thayer is still living in the mountains of NH. She will spend the winter in her apartment at Kendal in Hanover where two of her three children are close by. She has many friends near too; and, although lonely of course, Bee is “learning day by day” in her new life without Brad, “How fortunate I have been; 55 years of married life with a special man.” She plans to go to NYC in Dec.; and, if so, she will see classmates then. She and her daughter, Emily, visited SBC in April; they went to the columbarium where some of Brad’s ashes are buried and where she will eventually join him and be near her parents. They will be close also to Dr. Lawrence G. Nelson and his wife, Toni (Antoinette), who chaperoned the 1959 spring vacation trip to Nassau where Bee and Brad first met. Bee reports that the campus looks wonderful and the College’s new programs are really exciting.

Toni (Antoinette) Nelson, was also our chaperone to Bermuda in spring 1958 and was beloved by many in our class. Susan Cone Scott and Margaret Wadman Cafasso, among others, took piano lessons from her. Margaret kept up with Mrs. N. in Lynchburg until she passed away in 2002. Toni was a great proponent of libraries, chairing the SBC Friends. Dr. Nelson, a true scholar and gentle giant of a man, taught me, Julie O’Neil Arnheim, English literature our freshman year in a class composed primarily of sophomores. I remember Kate Groat Henchman, Susan Cone Scott, Tita Hatcher and Bess Hutchins Sharland as also being in that class. I kept my eyes lowered, head down; I doubt that I deserved to be exempt from freshman composition.

Margaret Wadman Cafasso made her annual summer trek to the Berkshires of Massachusetts to get away from the “hideous heat of Florida.” She had a total knee replacement in May. Fortunately, it was her left leg, so she can drive long distances.

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She is pleased to get around so easily.

Lucky Alicia Laing Salisbury managed to get tickets for Hamilton in NYC last Thanksgiving, which she recommends as a must-see. [Mea culpa for not passing her recommendation along in the spring bulletin.]

Penny Stanton Meyer in MD maintains that “since half of the Eastern Shore’s squirrels live in my backyard, happily eating most of the bird seed, I’ve been trapping them and releasing them in a woods with many oak and walnut trees. Eight squirrels so far, 5 to go, I think! Otherwise, my Colorado group will be here to celebrate my 80th birthday. Hurray for all of us who have made it.

Still working at a garden center five mornings a week.” And ’61 co-secretary, Bess Hutchins Sharland, also in MD, enjoys a large nearby pool in a park-like setting and the book club associated with her church while worrying about the parish’s long-dwindling membership. “Keep on keepin’ on,” is her advice.

Lynne Nalley Coates weighed in for the first time! She is not only the mother of three grown sons and was a special education teacher for 33 years but is the author of two murder mysteries, both available on Amazon: “To Protect the Innocent” and “Disordered Behavior.” She is at work on a third book, which is not a mystery but the story of a family in crisis. It is entitled “Sea Glass,” a metaphor for the ways that life tumbles us. Lynne wishes everyone the best.

In retirement in Boca Raton, Dale Cooper enjoys playing tennis.

She had a 33-year career in NYC and Michigan at General Motors, ultimately retiring in 1994 as that corporation’s director of stockholder relations. After 2 years at SBC, she transferred to Goucher where she graduated with a degree in French literature and studied afterward at the Sorbonne. She feels a Katherine Gibbs course in business was instrumental in getting her foot in the door at GM. Dale has very fond memories of Sweet Briar and says “hello” to all ’61 classmates.

Communicating from Florida’s Gulf coast, Faith Bullis Mace expects her news to improve in 2020.

She had to cancel a trip down the Danube due to emergency gallbladder surgery and earlier had an ablation; plus she had basal cell removal from a lower eyelid. She calls age 78

her year for body maintenance. Undaunted, she has already made reservations for a cruise in the summer of 2020 for 20 of her extended family to celebrate her 80th birthday.

Susan Cone Scott’s words capture what many of us may feel as we adjust to our ninth decade of life: “I moved to Austin almost 5 years ago to be near my son who wanted to be able to help me as I aged. I promptly rewarded him with a 10-hour back surgery followed by two heart attacks. Since then, my heart is fine but the back surgery was diagnosed as “failed.” This has definitely slowed me down. I’ve developed a network of friends here. I read a lot for two book clubs, make excursions in Austin with a senior group, work out in a warm water pool with treadmills in the water, since I move mighty slowly on land. I’ve moved into a sweet condo and enjoy large gardens and a pool with no maintenance on my part. If my macular degeneration continues to progress slowly, I will be independent as long as possible.

I watch an incredible amount of tennis, a sport I played poorly but one I love watching. I need my eyes for sure. I relish the many forms of communication in our modern world and keep up with dear friends all over. In the past year I’ve traveled to Birmingham, AL and Taos, NM; but traveling is hard for someone who is disabled. I talk to friends who go all over the world and enjoy pictures and stories of things I cannot do. My life is pretty peaceful. It does take a lot of maintenance to be 80, almost 81. I never expected to be old, but dealing with it is better than the alternative. As long as I have my wits, I am grateful for life. Occasionally I remember something I think George Jessel once said: “Too old, too late, we get too smart.” There is a wisdom that comes after 8 decades, and I like the way my mind still works. I don’t think it is too late to relish each day. I have many fond memories of Sweet Briar and our class, and I send best wishes to everyone.”

Now living in Charlottesville’s Westminster Canterbury, Suzanne (Seabreeze) Seaman Berry has adequately recovered from the 2016 car accident where she was in the middle car but was not crushed. She manages with one hip and both knees now repaired. Fritz was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2015, but nonetheless

they set out on what was a marvelous and memorable trip through the Northwest Passage and made it the entire way. No airlift out was needed. She sees Lucy Canary Church and her husband, Ranny, who also moved to Westminster Canterbury.

Celia Williams Dunn, and husband Larry continue to work full time at their real estate company with offices in Savannah and in Bluffton, SC. Celia says, “I am constantly running into Sweet Briar friends and alumnae.” In 2019 she saw Emily Whaley Whipple in Flat Rock, NC, Marion Lucas Fleming in Savannah and Judy Greer Schulz in Lynchburg. She was with Rue Wallace Judd in St. Remy and Dominique Siegler-Lathrop in Giverny, France, in April and had a fabulous time. Celia reports that Dominique moved back to Birmingham but spends two months a year in France. Celia also sees Laura Connerat Lawton ’62 every Sunday at Christ Episcopal Church in Savannah. Celia and Larry have three grandchildren, ages 11, 6 and 3, who live in Jacksonville.

I, co-secretary Julie O’Neil Arnheim, also confront physical challenges as I approach 80; I walk with a cane. In Paris this summer I purchased the duplicate of my cane so when I need two, I will have a matching pair. I can move faster with two canes and a fanny pack replacing my purse. Throughout the years, my children jokingly accused me of

The almost-twin sisters Faith Bullis Mace ’61 and Starr Bullis LaFayette ’60 are pretty in pink and blue.

Larry Dunn is no stranger to the classmates of his wife, Celia Williams ’61

Eleanor Briggs ’61 actually loves the subjects of her wildlife photographs.

“making an outfit,” and matching canes prove their case. My mind and my sense of humor are still intact, and my two-cane solution beats that of my dad who walked with two umbrellas until the tip of one got stuck in a manhole cover in the middle of the street! I traveled alone to France and remained in Paris for 5 weeks in late spring. Each year I acquaint myself with a different part of that city I have loved since our junior year. I have a French phone and number and prepay a discounted public transport ticket (carte Navigo). I stayed in the 12è on rue de Charonne where there were 3 boulangeries, a fromagerie, an épicerie, a fabulous shellfish restaurant, two hairdressers, a bus stop, a Métro station and a Monoprix all on my block. Market days were Wednesday and Saturday, and the stalls stretched for 3 blocks. La vie est belle. I am amazed that Opéra Garnier offers no handrails on its steep front steps.

The French elderly must not need them. To ascend those stairs, I hold onto the wall; but I did see five operas between Bastille and Garnier.

College of Charleston’s semester begins in late August, and I will be back in classes. My only grandchildren are 7-year-old twins living in Chicago, and I am continually fascinated by how different they are. Is it nature, nurture or simply chance?

Co-presidents, Maria Garnett Hood and Kate Groat Henchman, send warm greetings to all. Maria, per usual, summered at her beloved Camp Greenbrier in WVA overseeing food service, tutoring and managing countless activities for the 180 fantastic campers there.

We were sorry to learn only recently of the deaths of five Class of ’61 classmates several years ago: Danielle Joyce Zierer on Jan. 11, 1978 Margaret Mayher Badcock on Aug. 2, 2010 Elizabeth (Betsy) Marble Hartwell on Sept. 13, 2013 Sandra Wilson Johnson on Aug. 9, 2015 Terry Reece Michie on Nov. 22, 2015

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Parry Ellice Adam 33 Pleasant Run Rd. Flemington, NJ 08822 peaba@comcast.net Effie Castelli Sammis connected with some of our classmates while graciously soliciting economic support for SBC. She visited Taft and Anne Allen Symond’s at their home in Park City last summer and has seen Jane Aldrich in recent years in Florence, MT. A trip to Cuba revealed the time warp island from the late ‘50s. Lovely old buildings abandoned and crumbling. Lush, fertile countryside traveled by horse-drawn wagons, while ‘40s and ‘50s Chevys, Fords and Pontiacs could be seen in Havana. Even a 4–hole Buick like Mary Sturgeon Biggs had her senior year! Off on a trip to Europe and Danube River in the spring to celebrate the “Big 80”!

Caroline Coleman Stautberg lives on a lovely farm outside Baltimore where she breeds thoroughbred horses to race and sell. She has 2 married children and 7 grandchildren all living in Birmingham so lots of backing and forthing. She was just leaving for Saratoga where she hopes to sell some yearlings, with fingers crossed.

Anne Parker Schmatz and Bob are enjoying life just north of Boston for the past 6 years. Their cottage looks out on a meadow, stone walls and active bird life. Anne is known as the “nature lady” leading a monthly discussion group and drawing for the resident magazine. She and Bob have 9 grandchildren, 5 of whom are graduated from college.

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Allie Stemmons Simon 3701 Guadalajara Ct. Irving, Texas 75062 asimontc@outlook.com Greetings to the Class of 1963!

Anne Carter Brothers barely missed my deadline in January so I promised to lead off with her news this time.

“I hated to miss our Reunion but was just back from England where I had joined my granddaughter who was doing research on Jane Austen.

Travel is mostly grandchildren related — another granddaughter, Anne Peyton Brothers, graduated from Wake Forest in May where she received the award for outstanding theater student. Armed with that, she and I left for LA so my singer/ songwriter son Cary could try to find her a job.” Don’t know about the job but our Anne apparently had a great time partying in California! Anne says she feels fortunate to spend the winter months in Longboat Key, FL, painting, playing a lot of tennis and simply ignoring the aches and pains.

Also celebrating “finally making a deadline” Katharine Blackford Collins writes, “I’m in Wyoming for the summer gearing up for a reunion here with my two brothers, all our kids and grandkids, at the end of July.

We’ll canoe up through the Green River Lakes, do some hiking in the Wind River Mountains and go for a boat ride on Fremont Lake.” Katharine went to Athens in May with her Greek neighbors and enjoyed hiking gorgeous gorges in Crete. Earlier this spring she traveled to DC to join 6 women from their Peace Corps group in Ghana more than 50 years ago. They had a great sit-down at the Ghana Embassy with a couple of officials who weren’t even born when they were there!

Mary Ann Utterback Burritt has been seeing Jim through treatments for pancreatitis for 6 months and when he got clear scans in May they celebrated by buying a 4-month-old Labrador puppy! She says he is just beautiful and they are enjoying him although their lives have changed to accommodate him!

As a consistent dog owner, boy do I understand that! Mary Ann’s mother died in June after moving from assisted living to a nursing home.

Her daughter (and my goddaughter) Cheri Lee Burritt Yates,’84, received the Sweet Briar Outstanding Alumnae Award at Reunion 2019 and Mary Ann was able to surprise her by attending the ceremony!

We have a number of classmates moving closer to family and downsizing. Ann Funkhouser StriteKurz and Bill are now in Easton.

MD which Ann says is a delightful small town and they are in a 55+ community with lots of activities. As this is where Ann started her teaching career she is enjoying catching up

with close stitching friends nearby.

McNair Currie Maxwell writes, “Bob and I have big news! After 63 years I am going home — to North Carolina! We are planning to move in September to Twin Lakes, a retirement community in Burlington, NC. We have a sizeable house but of course we are leaving our panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean in California. We have a guest room and would live to have visitors! We have joined the country club and can entertain you there.” McNair’s new address is 2072 Sullivan Park Circle, Burlington, NC 27215.

Lucy Otis Anderson, our class president, and McNair, our fund agent, want to extend thanks to those classmates who responded so generously to their request for support for the Sweet Briar Fund. According to “The Briar Wire” I just received today, the class of 1963 showed 41% participation and had the highest total giving for classes in the 60s. Good job, ladies! Lucy reports that she and David went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in May with 37 people from their church, 4 of whom were Sweet Briar graduates. In June they took their family on an Alaska cruise and in August they’ll all be at the beach at Pawley’s Island, SC. Lee Kucewicz Parham and John spent the last couple of years renovating the house on Lookout Mountain where they have lived almost their whole married life and are celebrating by taking a couple of trips to Palisade, CO, for their niece’s wedding and on to Portland, OR. Later they will go to Norfolk for Lee’s 60th high school reunion. Lee and Stevie Fontaine Keown walk together just about every morning as long as the weather cooperates and they often have lunch with Kathy Caldwell Patten. Also visiting Oregon is Nancy Dixon Brown who is attending a family gathering. She plans on seeing Jane Yardley Amos for a golf tournament in August.

Keitt Matheson Wood and Frank are making their annual trip to Colorado to visit their daughter and unfortunately we will miss them this year as we are still in Texas where Heinz is taking a course of therapy which will hopefully cure his vertigo.

Keitt is still raving about their whale watching week in Baja with a Lindblad National Geographic cruise.

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She says they saw lots of whales but her favorite was the “thousands of dolphins playing in the waves of the ship.”

Irene Pschorr Belknap sent the following catch-up: “I have lived in my house for 51 years. We have had 4 weddings here and I just had a show in the garden entitled Art in the Afternoon. I put my paintings out in the garden and it was a big success. We have 4 grandchildren.

Summer activities revolve mainly about hardening the house as fire danger is on everyone’s mind here in California. Just celebrated my 40th anniversary with husband #2.”

From Pat Calkins Wilder: “Your request for news always makes me realize once again how fast time is flying. After a long and difficult couple of years my husband passed away in March. It was really a great relief — I would not have wanted him to go through any more. As everything is in life, it has been an educational experience — both positive and negative. I am fortunate to have lots on my plate at the moment — several art shows and visiting family — and an appreciation for being fully engaged in every day with something creative.” Our sympathy, Pat, and keep up your wonderful attitude.

Katharine Haskell Subramanian writes “Aside from the usual routine of house, garden and my business, the most fun happenings have been with my sister on Road Scholar trips to Bulgaria last September and Botswana in April. Both trips were fascinating and mind-opening. And we’re going on another Road Scholar trip next April, to Israel and Jordan.

Even though I’ve been to 38 countries so far there are still so many places I haven’t been! Fortunately, Ken is happy to stay home and catsit!”

Jean Meyer Aloe reports her eldest grandchild will be off to college in August and her 13-year-old grandson will spend 2 weeks this summer in a gifted program at UVA. Her oldest daughter, a clinical psychologist, will be director of counseling and psychological services at George Mason Univ. starting in August. Her husband Ed is not well, so they have curtailed travel.

Lynn Carol Blau’s husband Jeffrey retired from his radiology practice so they have more time in New

York and traveling to visit family.

They stay busy hiking, golfing, working out and lots of healthy cooking at home. They took an amazing trip to Israel with the family. Granddaughters have published their first cookbook, “HoneySalt, a Culinary Adventure.” Lynn saw her Sweet Briar roommate, Polly Wirtzman Craighill, in New York and says she looks fabulous!

Ginger Cates Mitchell and Mitch cruised early this summer through the British Isles and Iceland.

Ginger says “Aging seems to require new body parts so I’m going to buy a new knee at the end of July and spend the rest of summer rehabbing and recuperating. Should be good as new (Ha!) by fall!”

Temperance Parker writes that Betsey Beale died Aug. 19 after a courageous 6-month battle with metastasized stage 4 lung cancer. She spent her final months at Westport, a lovely Richmond nursing home with wonderful caregivers whom Tempe saw in action first hand when she drove up from Charleston and spent 4 days with her in July. Betsey was devoted to her pets (2 dogs, 5 birds-one a cockatoo she had for 28 years and 4 cats) and with the help of Trista Wright ‘95 Tempe was able to find homes for them all by phone from South Carolina, and while in Richmond. Tempe had her beloved dogs brought in to her room at Westport to say goodbye.

Great to hear from Tish Skinner Dace after a long silence! “I spend nearly every waking moment on the Resistance. Ostensibly I still write about plans and playwrights, but only in very rare moments. I’ve lived on Bonaire in the south central Caribbean for 17 years but I no longer scuba dive, instead hobbling around with a claw-foot cane. Bonaire is one of those sea-level islands soon to be reclaimed by the ocean. Ninety days a year I get my urban fix by home exchanging to Paris, although I know less French now than I did struggling with 2 years of that language at Sweet Briar. My two sons and two of my three grandsons (ages 33, 28 and 2) live in the Midwest and the other in his native Scotland. I dare say I’m not the only member of the class of ’63 trying to save the world; good luck to us all!!”

And finally, the best for last, a

wonderful note from our intrepid exchange student, Priscilla Langley Pay. Priscilla starts “So glad you said you liked to hear even if we had no news! So here is mine!” Bless her, and I am going to copy her whole “no news” and hope the Alumnae Office will cut me some slack on the length of these notes. “Unfortunately, well maybe not, I am now 79 and a bit and beginning to feel old! After some years of spending about 4 months a year enjoying France in our motorhome we have come to the end of our travels. Tony has medical problems which mean he can no longer drive.

At lease we are both still here and hopefully for a long time yet. Our daughter Sarah and husband Ian live next door so we have support, and as we have given them the motorhome we hope to enjoy hearing about their travels in the future. I might even be able to keep their sat-nav up to date for them! Sarah and Ian have 4 daughters who have all flown the nest. Two are married, one is training for the Merchant Navy and the youngest is studying astrophysics at university. I am so grateful for my year at Sweet Briar as it so broadened my interests. I have enjoyed looking at my Asian Studies again as I did a family tree for Tony’s cousin.

Fascinating! I was sorry to find Mr. Harris had died as I wanted to write and thank him. My next project is to tidy the book room and retrieve my CC handouts and enjoy going over them all again. I am a hoarder and have all manner of items to peruse.

Wonderful days, thank you all! Anyway, I think the reason for feeling old is because horizons seem to be closing in, but really I’m no older than I was in 1962. Maybe a bit more careworn! Could do without Brexit though!! So there is my no news for the moment. Very best wishes to all, Scilla Pay. And my very best wishes to all as well — thanks for the great response - Allie

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Peggy Aurand 26387 Oak Plain Drive Santa Clarita, Calif. 91321 pegzaloha@yahoo.com M. C. Elmore Harrell writes that she and Doug enjoyed spend-

ing the winter in St. Augustine, FL. Had a great time exploring the town, going to the beach and taking lots of photographs. “We are now in Virginia for the summer where we get to see our children and grandchildren who live in Virginia and Maryland.”

They had a great time at Reunion in June and are looking forward to Sweet Work Weeks in August. It is always great to be on campus to see first-hand the exciting things that are happening.

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Sally Hubbard 47 Parsons Green Circle Sewanee, TN 37375 931-598-5338 cell: 931-636-7320 sally@hubbard.net Brenda Muhlinghaus Barger hopes all our classmates are keeping up with the new use of Sweet Briar’s beautiful campus for “artisanal farming” to include an aviary, vineyard, wildflower field and commercial greenhouse. Lots to look forward to at our 55th Reunion just 10 short months from now! Thanks to Mibs Sebring Raney and Brenda, reunion got a jump start last April with a gathering of western North Carolina classmates. Lillian Norburn Alexander (Asheville) chose the delightful restaurant in Morganton and drove over with Dasha Morgan (Mills River) and Mibs (Brevard).

Coming from the center of the state were Nancy Collier Hitchins (Charlotte), Libba Hangar Luther (Lincolnton), Alice Mighell Ficken (Winston-Salem) and Brenda (Davidson). Did the group have a lot to talk about? They barely scratched the surface of past, present and future! Regrettably other commitments kept Sarah Porter Boehmler (Davidson) and Connie Triplette Barker (Statesville) from joining the group. Summertime travels are a great time to reconnect so get busy encouraging everyone to make the trip back to SBC next May 29-31, 2020.

Eugenia Dickey Caldwell and Peter had a terrific, month-long visit to New Orleans (ah the joys of being retired!), seeing friends and family, attending 2 birding festivals and both weekends of Jazz Fest and

CLASS NOTES Nancy MacMeekan and Vicky Thome Barrette were present at the starting point and able to see Alison Lifka ‘13 set off to compete in the Iditarod race in Alaska. Deirdre organized a dinner the night before the race with Alison’s posse of SBC people from several generations. Gathered for the Sweet Briar Day dinner at Crow’s Nest Restaurant in the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage.

Vicky and Nancy enjoyed a vacation in Barcelona and on the Island of Mallorca in April.

Bonnie Chapman McClure and her husband are still living outside Paris on the Seine — surviving and even flourishing from time to time.

Kay Kaplan McDonald is finally going to her forever home — a darling little Craftsman cottage in Vallejo that her step-son, Dan, and his wife, Krista, have bought and are renting to her. Her new contact information is: Kay Kaplan, 1615 Napa Street, Vallejo, CA 94590,kkaplan625@yahoo.com, 916-672-7313 Come visit!

Laura Haskell Phinizy and husband Stewart have enjoyed a visit with almost-teenager granddaughter Sara Frances Jones recently. They will make their annual pilgrimage to Kanuga in August, and then take part in a grand Phinizy Reunion in New Orleans in November. The Jud Hickey Center for Alzheimers is a “caregiver’s caregiver” for Laura and much enjoyed by Stewart. The Augusta Green Jackets Baseball season does wonders for Stewart — they sometimes go to games 7 days in a row. What more should Laura expect from a fellow who called her on the dorm phone at SBC to asked her to marry him on Oct. 2 so he could watch the World Series on their honeymoon?

Milbrey Sebring Raney and Bev had a lovely family reunion at the beach with 3 generations. Their offspring must have thought they looked really old, because they were extra solicitous. Mibs and Bev also are looking forward to a trip to Quebec, Niagara Falls and the Finger Lakes.

Carol Reifsnyder Rhoads’ husband Bob plays tuba with the Salem Band — the oldest (1771) continuous mixed wind ensemble in the nation. Their son-in-law, daughter and grandkids joined them for a great concert in Salem Square on

L to R: Lillian Norburn Alexander ’65, Dasha Morgan ’65, Libba Hangar Luther ’65, Nancy Collier Hitchins ’65, Alice Mighell ’65, Mibs Sebring Raney ’65

Front row: L to R - DeDe Conley ’72 in pink, Mary Alexander ’12 and Seanne Weekes ’12. Back row, L to R: Betty Skladal ’58, Nancy MacMeekin ’65, Marisha Bourgeois ’99, Vicky Barrette ’65 and Harriett Milks ’77

the July 4. They are enjoying their mountain house in Boone and went to the Highland Games at Grandfather Mountain in July. They’ll take a Viking River trip to Portugal in October. After 2 cancer scares 18 years ago, they are in good health. They are associate members of St. Mary’s of the Hills in Blowing Rock NC — the church about which Jan Karon wrote several novels.

Magda Salvesen, curator of the Jon Schueler Estate in New York, was involved with recent exhibitions, publications and museum acquisitions. She dropped in and out of Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery’s Schueler exhibit during Mayfair Art Weekend in mid-summer.

Their two children, spouses and 6 grandkids joined Chris Kilcullen Thurlow and Steve to celebrate their

50th wedding anniversary at a dude ranch in Jackson Hole. They would have taken a river trip through the Grand Canyon but the grandkids threatened to kill each other if they were in a boat together for 6 days.

Steve and Chris have made lovely new friends in the relaxed atmosphere of Vero Beach, FL. They are involved in a tutoring program for at-risk children, and Chris is Secretary of the Grand Harbor Audubon Society. They are working with a job-training program for adults, playing lots of golf, and trying to keep their weight under control. They’ll spend the summer in Greenwich to drive their grandkids places and watch them play lacrosse on 6 different elite teams. They are Grand-Ubers, but it’s the best part of life.

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of course, eating great food. They are home now, enjoying the cool San Francisco summer. Looking forward to going birding next January in Guyana, which apparently is completely unspoiled, and as a result is quite primitive, e.g., no hot water at the lodges. Eugenia figures with daily temperatures of 75-90 degrees, hot showers are not likely to be missed!

Melinda Musgrove Chapman now has 3 grandchildren who are college graduates, 2 in college and her youngest is going into 11th grade. She is still active in real estate but starting to slow down. Melinda is very involved at her church—between real estate and church she is never bored. Her biggest change this year was letting her beautiful white hair emerge after 40 years of dying it brown. Everywhere she goes, old friends walk by and suddenly say “Melinda! Is that you?” She’s coming and hopes to see us all at our 55th.

Eileen Stroud Clark and her husband are fully retired and spend time in both Rehoboth DE and Palm Springs, CA. Their three kids and their spouses and 12 grands enjoy visiting them in both places.

Eileen was glad to hear from Mary Ellen Freese recently and she is well.

Mary Pederson Grum is off on a Baltic cruise with a major stop in St. Petersburg. Then she will see her eldest grandson head off to W&L. Bunny Sutton Healy says life is good, although she finds it frustrating to acknowledge that the years are adding up! They welcomed their first grandchild a year ago and their second is due anytime, so they are still on their toes. Still spending time in MA, NH and CO, all happy places for Jay and Bunny.

Sally McCrady Hubbard and her brother Waring and daughter Anna attended the second wedding of her brother John, age 83, in Austin in May. John and new sister-inlaw Diane will join Waring and Sally for a vacation in New Brunswick to see the Bay of Fundy in September. She was pleased to host Gideon Byamugisha, whose vocational school she supports in Uganda, when he came to Sewanee to receive an honorary degree in May. Sally is very proud of her granddaughter Margaret who is studying sound design in the theatre department of Carnegie Mellon.

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CLASS NOTES Alice Haywood Robbins and Wayne have grandsons already but welcome this summer the first girl to be both in their family in 64 years — Alice and her sisters only had boys.

They make many trips to LA and Birmingham to see their children and grandchildren.

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Hello, once again, my wonderful ’66 classmates! Keenan Colton Kelsey and I truly appreciate the many responses that we have received for the upcoming issue of our Class Notes. We thank you!

Speaking of Keenan, she shares that the biggest change in her recent life has been a beau! She never anticipated another relationship, but here it is! After 30 years of being independent and single, she is having to relearn how to be part of a couple. This was unexpected and amazing! This summer has included a lot of travel.

She and Mark went to England to visit his nieces in small villages. Then soon after had the wonderful DC reunion with SBC roommates. After that [as in the next day] to Hawaii with family. Next: Spokane to meet Mark’s mother and Tahoe several times. SBC board work continues to be challenging and stimulating.

“The College is definitely on track and working hard. Meredith Woo is quite wonderful.”

Cherry Brown Peters says that she has had an eventful year. From record-setting rainfall in May 2018, a tree fell onto her house and took out 40% of the building, caving in the roof and doing tons of damage.

They moved to a rented townhouse, but the biggest problem was that she has two big dogs: a standard poodle and a lab. This was compounded by the fact that almost all residential rental properties have a 40-pound limit. Unable to bring themselves to board their dogs for eight months, they found a corporate real estate group with a furnished townhouse with no limits of the size of dogs [or people]. After being there, they moved back home in January 2019, even though the construction wasn’t

quite finished. Good news: there WAS working heat and a bathroom!

The house was finished in June, “but we’re back, and all is right with the world.” She now realizes how much she appreciates her own home!

Sidney Turner, in preparation for an eventual move to a local retirement community, was going over some old papers and found the centennial edition of the alumnae magazine from 2001. It gave a lot of history “on dear old SBC.” The last article was “Visions Realized and Visions to come in 2000.” “If only we had known what would happen in the next few years.”

At present she is facing hip replacement surgery, which may be delayed by her husband’s more urgent health problems.Sidney’s former roommate Julia Bush Youngman has moved to Centennial, CO, after the death of her husband. She seems to be adjusting well after living so long in AZ. Evie Day Butler has news! They are moving back to Texas this fall!

They are looking forward to being back in Ft. Worth, where they have many friends — and their youngest son and his family. They are in North Carolina this month [Editor’s note: in August] to avoid heat and traffic.

Her cell phone and email remain the same, and they plan to move in October, with the new address being 3300 Rosemeade Drive, #2512, Ft. Worth, TX, 76116. She sends love to all!

Randi Miles Long feels fortunate to have Penn Willets Fullerton close by. They have watched each others’ children grow up and raise their own families. She and Herb enjoyed seeing all of them recently at Penn’s 75th birthday celebration.

They are still traveling a lot but are facing problems with her torn meniscus. She continues to enjoy her genealogy explorations. “Being in an interfaith group of women has helped me remain hopeful in this turbulent time we live in.” Also, she loved reading the book “Women Rowing North” by Mary Pipher.

Katie Clay Barret relates that she hates summer, being unable to sleep since it is so hot. “Work is boring.”

As the department manager for an academic department at the University of Kentucky, many days she is the only one there. However, she does enjoy Farmer’s Market tomatoes, especially heirloom varieties, including Cherokee Purple. Since

this time of year she does a lot of yard work — push mowing, weeding and picking up yard debris, she is in the best shape of the year. She mows about one third of her 12-acre yard, using a zero-turn mower, which is sort of like an amusement park ride!

However, she loves doing it. She is looking forward to the fall semester which will begin soon and loves being grandmother of 4-year-old twins, a 7-year-old grandson and a 5-yearold granddaughter.

Sally Kalber Fiedler relates that this has been the year that medical appointments have taken the place of travel plans. “Nothing earth-shattering, but big time-consumers!” Their calendars are full with more boring events than fun ones. “Such is life in the 70s.” They had a great visit with Jack and Jane Taylor Ryan as they drove from Hilton Head back to New Hampshire at the end of their winter in the south. She says that she always enjoys seeing them. Sally sends hopes that everyone is well!

Andrea Pearson Pennington says that they are trying to sell their rather large home and downsize.

Two main reasons: going to the second floor when she needs something from her bedroom and, since there are just the two of them, 4 bedrooms seems like a bit “of overkill.” They are still trying to search for a house just right for their current needs in the part of town they prefer. Their 5 wonderful grandchildren (3 girls: 8,3,2 and 2 boys: 8,5) add “so much brightness in life.” Two are in DC, and three in Birmingham, which is, at least a bit closer to Mobile. She is looking forward to going to the U.S. Open Tennis in NYC. She is active in the League of Women Voters and in mentoring for the Girls’ Leadership Program through the Juvenile Court. She still officiates a lot of tennis in Mobile and at various SEC and ACC schools. She is truly concentrating on looking for a new home and selling the “much too large” home they have now.

Bunny Cord relates that for the past 2 years she has been taking art classes at the art school of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She is working hard at mixed media painting and figure drawing, improving slowly but surely. But loving it! “It brightens my days.”

Betty Booker Morriss says that

Marcy Fisher, Suzy Moseley Helm, and the sisters-in-law Betty and Makanah Dunham Morriss had a chance to catch up when they all landed at Chautauqua Institution near Erie, PA, in August. They focused on the insights of the theme of the week: grace. “Speaking of grace, aren’t we all fortunate to have lasting collegiality — and to have had access to a high-quality education that keeps us curious and engaged for a lifetime?”

Penn Willets Mullin is thankful for an awesome mini-reunion with roommates Jane Nelson, Keenan Colton Kelsey and Susan Sudduth Hiller in Washington, DC! Each year we pick a new venue — such fun! “I think that being together is such an especially affirming experience as we grown older, sharing our experiences with this, discussing our challenges and getting advice from each other! I feel so blessed with this privilege.” She says that all is good in her life, especially with being able to see her 7 [and a half ] grandkids a lot. [ages: soon-to-be-born to 17!] Also, she enjoys time with her own kids, which are all close by.She and George continue to enjoy their 1930’s cabin in the Sierras all year long. Fly fishing still tops the list of her favorite hobbies. She loves the time that she is able to spend with SBC friends, like Randy Long, who live nearby.

“How thrilling and rewarding it is to see how well our college is doing!

Hooray!”

Nancy Bullard Reed has just become president of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America! In mid-July she enjoyed visiting with Marty Rogers Brown at her house in Fishing Bay. “This has been a yearly get-together for decades and is such fun.” On July 30 , she had the pleasure of representing the NSCDA in the ceremonies on Jamestown Island as a part of the 400th anniversary of the first representative legislative assembly in America. While there she signed a scroll, which was placed in a time capsule and was buried. ”Wonder when it will be opened?”

Penny Winfree Gooch reports that she will leave for quite a trip on the Sept. 25. She will fly to Jackson Hole, have a day of guided fishing and take a tour of the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone. Then she will fly

CLASS NOTES ally enjoying this. Since an arthritis invasion and replaced knees forced her to give up tennis, golf is now their sport for most of the year. They admit that they are not necessarily getting better but certainly slower.

“Perfection is not an expectation.”

They do feel blessed to have a life of comfort and relative ease.

Anne Ward Stern had lunch with Jane Nelson recently and enjoyed getting caught up with her.

Since Anne’s husband’s death in April, she has decided to live in both Cincinnati and Charlottesville in order to spend more time with friends and family in Virginia. Her sister Dearing has an adorable cottage on her property, which is being renovated to be Anne’s own “tiny house.” She is now carving out “the next chapter in [her] life by staying positive, and looking forward to more travel, taking courses and enjoying new experiences.” She welcomes words of wisdom from any of us who have made this transition to widowhood.

Jane Nelson said, “The past few months have been busy, fun and meaningful in ‘retirement.’” Her every-other-year family reunion took place in Culpeper in June. It was a special time, being intergenerational with cousins from all over. Even though it was hot in DC, the annual “four-SBC-roommates” reunion in July was great. “We had tours of the West Wing and White House, an afternoon at the National Cathedral, visits either to the Holocaust Museum or the Museum of Natural History and a river cruise on the Potomac to Mount Vernon. We stayed in Georgetown, within walking distance of great restaurants!”

She also mentioned the recent visit with Anne Ward Stern, saying that she has been thinking of her since the recent death of her husband Edward in April.

Martha Madden Swanson tells us that it has been a relatively quiet year for her. She had cataract surgery, and her husband underwent some surgery and radiation. These resulted in a lot of time with various doctors. “(What else is new?)” They did get 5 days in Nevis in late March, just enjoying the sun and sea. July took them to the Adirondacks and a week with several siblings and their children and grandchildren. It was gorgeous and peaceful, and they had

good times with family. Both their daughter and daughter-in-law have new jobs. Her daughter’s brought her back from London to Santa Monica, and they plan a Christmas visit. “We stay busy going to sporting events and plays.” Martha continues as president of the board of the School of Hope Foundation, which raises funds for a secondary school in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. She rejoined the board of Georgetown’s retired faculty and staff association as membership chair. “Lots of Excel and email.”

Susan Sudduth Hiller — that’s me! As mentioned earlier, Keenan and I thank all of you for your replies, and I appreciate her getting the word out that we wanted them — soon! I do enjoy reading about what is going on and to follow each of you, as we have similar life experiences as the years advance. Almost all of us can now say [or will soon] that we have lived for three quarters of a century. How blessed I was that during a 5-week period surrounding my birthday, I was able at different times to be with my brother, his wife, a group of Kentucky [Penn] cousins, my daughter Penn, her husband Christopher, their boys [Andrew, 12, and Ethan, 12], my granddaughter Katie [17!], my husband Chuck and our sweet Cardigan Corgi Drea!

And — my 3 SBC roomies Jane, Keenan and Penn! As mentioned above, our mini-reunion in DC was wonderful, with many highlights, including a private tour of the West Wing and the river cruise on the Potomac to and from Mt. Vernon.

Soon afterward, Chuck and I spent a grand week in Snowmass mid-August. Our lives here in Little Rock continue to be busy and increasingly fulfilling. He seems to be a man of unending energy [gardening, woodworking, bee-keeping, bicycling, tutoring, etc.]. I am thrilled to be serving in a number of capacities at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church while continuing my passion for hospice work [visiting patients and also serving on one of the boards], grief counseling and lay chaplaincy. Of course, visiting family members and nurturing friendships are important to us both.

I am button-popping proud of Sweet Briar. Keenan, thank you for serving on the Board!! Also, kudos

to President Woo and all others who are making this happen!! Thank you to all of you as well.

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Gail Robins O’Quin 2651 Kleinert Avenue Baton Rouge Louisiana 70806-6823 cgrobins@ix.netcom.com Gracey Stoddard was the first one to respond to my plea for news — thank you, Gracey! Her news is short and happy. “I have enjoyed a great year so far with trips to Israel in 2018, and in 2019 to Vietnam, St. Augustine, Florida and Monrovia, Liberia, where I annually visit the school I support, the African Dream Academy. The school is doing very well with 810 children from threeyear-olds up through 10th graders and will graduate their first high school students in June 2021. Fundraising is really tough, however, so if any of my classmates want to be inspired and help our school continue to operate, please visit www. africandreamacademy.org. Better yet, join me on a trip to Liberia in March 2020 and see our school firsthand!”

I just wish Bill and I could, Gracey!

We’ve been to Africa 4 times and it is a phenomenal trip!

Elizabeth Kurtz Argo reports that she and Jimmy “are preparing for the onset of the thundering herds (family and friends) descending upon us as happens every summer in northern Michigan (where you can’t drive more than 5 miles before running into a body of water). But we LOVE the visits. We retired in a darling little Assn of 10 cottages on Torch Lake. Jimmy put up a cute little sign in the kitchen which says ‘bed & breakfast (you make both).’

Ed: Much better than our ‘Bed and Bar!’ We especially love kayaking.

But I also spend a lot of time playing duplicate bridge, Mah Jong & gardening - all of which I love! (and I never knew about any of this until my last horse died). Retirement is phenomenal!” Betsy, you are definitely not a couch potato!

Victoria S. Jones and her husband are living the high life of retirees in New York on a budget, “devoting as much of our resources as possible to our son’s wonderful

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to Calgary, Canada, go by coach to Banff, touring that city and Lake Louise. Then she will catch the Golden Leaf train for Vancouver and tour Victoria. Her flight home to Roanoke from Vancouver is scheduled for Oct. 5. Wow! Ellie Gilmore Massie says that she has had a quiet, hot summer there at Virginia Beach, while gradually getting over meniscus surgery, which took place in May. She is finally getting back to golf, yoga and pilates. This fall will find her heading north to see family and friends. Then she and Pete will go to DisneyWorld in late October — without kids!

They just want to enjoy!

Harriette Horsey Sturgis reports that her son Richard and his wife “(beloved daughter-in-law)” have moved from LA to NY, to Louisburg, N.C. Although it had been fun to visit both of her sons, she is thrilled that they are both, with families, are nearby. “Heidi keeps saying, ‘Why do people ask me how I am adjusting to a small town? I’ve been visiting and loving it here for over 20 years.’” Harriette and Buzz are still celebrating having chosen each other over 53 years ago. “He’s still amazing and amusing.” She now realizes that she enjoys reading YA books. The most recent favorite is “Dig” by A.S. King. “Like the title, you find yourself digging deep to find out more.” Harriette is looking forward to hearing from everyone.

Penny Stekete Sidor said that she didn’t have much to report, but continues reading…! Retiring from her part time tax job, she is able to spend more time with her grandsons, ages 7, 6 and 2, who live from three to 25 miles away. This means that she is able to see them quite a bit. Oh, she is still doing taxes, on a volunteer basis now. Mike retired after almost 20 years of teaching and administering. Seventeen years ago they moved from their big old house in the city to a wonderful condo/ townhouse community of mostly retired people. They both enjoy singing in their church choir. When her former choral group disbanded, she joined ‘Encore,’ which is new to her area. It consists of 300+ singers, aged 50+ in seven locations around the Chicago area. They perform as individual groups and then with all groups together. She evidently is re-

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conservation project, the Nature Discovery Center of Cambodia. I am very impressed with the new SBC and feel lucky, as life goes on, to still be in touch with two friends from my old SBC life, Judy Powell Martin and roommate Jane Stephenson Wilson. Thanks for your hard work on behalf of keeping our Class News going!” Vicky, it’s you classmates who submit material that keep the class going!

Hallie Darby Smith has continued to enjoy riding her bike. Last Fall she even went on another bike trip to Scandinavia. Wow! “Most of the riding was in Sweden, but I had a food and bike tour of Copenhagen and food tours in Stockholm and Helsinki. Since I travel alone, I have found that having a food tour in each city is a fun way to meet interesting people and experience the city. I am looking forward next month to a trip to Tuscany with my children and grandchildren.” And I whine when I have to walk a block or two — way to go, Hallie!

Judith L. Bensen Stigle claims that there is “not much happening in the Stigle/Peterson household. I am still working part time running a weight management clinic in Venice, Fla. Been 3 1/2 years and I’m still not Skinny! Had a good winter here with visitors and family. Now HOT in Sunny Florida and that will last till end of September. Fun Winter with family and friends visiting. Always fun to see Bonnie Blew Pierie and Tim who are about 5 miles away.

Also played in golf tournament with Jane Walker ’60 — no prizes but fun!” Judy, isn’t fun, not prizes, what these events are all about?

Carroll Randolph Barr’s highlight of 2019 so far was UVa basketball... “as many of you know I am a bit of a bball junkie and this year my passion was treated to an extremely stressful season culminated by the 2019 National Championship. We have season tickets to the games in Charlottesville so that was great fun but then I had the opportunity to go to the regionals in Columbia, SC, and in Louisville, KY.... it was amazing to witness and so much fun. I drove to Louisville with a friend (Mike couldn’t go because of his knee), we stayed with Jill Haden Cooper which was delightful and she learned a lot about basketball…

and we learned a lot about Louisville What a marvelous city. Not sure I turned her into a total fan but at least she enjoyed Virginia’s run to the Final Four, which I watched on TV with Mike. In mid-May a group of House 3 ladies met at Monteagle in Nashville for a mini-reunion. Margie Brooks hosted us at her cottage and in attendance were Beth Glaser Isaacs, Lisa Braden Moody, Jacqueline Stevenson Bennett, Gayle Dearborn Vance, Shelly Gearhart Lindstrom, Emily Chenoweth, Mary Bell Timberlake, Jill Haden Cooper. We toured the Jack Daniels Distillery, had delicious food, visited an amazing castle and a working mill, all in Lynchburg, TN. Of course the majority of our time was spent talking, eating, drinking and sharing opinions and ideas on everything from politics to shoes and, naturally, our health and well-being.

The best news is that my brother-inlaw, Jim Murray, is very close friends with Meredith Woo; he cannot say enough positive things about her and the college. He was recently invited to dinner with Meredith and a few SBC alums and came home with such positive news. I wish he had taken a photo but alas, the opportunity was missed. He is extremely positive about the future of SBC [and] so impressed with the farm manager and integration of all the agriculture into the curriculum, teaching the students so much more than just the usual academic offerings. Everyone who has been following Dr. Woo’s progress should agree with Jim’s report and share his enthusiasm! We’re halfway through our Michigan summer which has been glorious. Family here for 2 weeks and our house is camp central. Told the cleaning ladies not to come until they leave so you can imagine what it looks like, BUT we love it. Happy summer and love to all!!!”

Victoria Baker writes, “We’ve been traveling a lot this year: a fascinating cruise in the Persian Gulf for Lee’s 75th birthday in January, another Caribbean cruise on which I lectured in March, and a wonderful river cruise on the Danube from Budapest to Bucharest in April. We keep dancing over the 7 seas, doing volunteer work, remodeling the house and right now I’m preparing talks for a Panama Canal cruise later

this year. If a hurricane doesn’t upset the plans, my sister and I will be throwing a big family celebration for our mother’s 100th birthday in September. She is amazing! Our motto continues to be: Don’t postpone doing the things you want to do and are still able — even if just barely!”

Kim Waters Keriakos shared her description of her visit to SBC. “Want to let you know I drove through Sweet Briar campus just a couple of weeks ago. It was wonderful. A “young writers’ workshop” was in progress with registration set up in front of the chapel and young people everywhere. We drove up to the stables through the amazing vineyard hills. What an adventure.

What a joy!” Yes indeed! The reports get better and better!

Maria Wiglesworth Hemmings says, “I won’t write much as I am on my laptop and always manage to hit whatever combination of keys erases everything (I am now retyping after an erasure.) Total bummer about your health issues. They’re much better now that I found the correct medicine! One of these days I will get my husband to travel in the USA other than going to visit our daughters and... we will show up on your doorstep. I do have Louisiana roots so....” Would love to have you and anyone else who would like to come to the swamp!

Page Munroe Renger claims “no exciting news but all is well.” Isn’t that what we all want, the well part at least? Will see Lindsay Smith Newsom and Sue Morck Perrin in a few weeks and will also be taking a short cruise to Bermuda in Sept.”

Have fun!

Direxa Dick Dearie guesses her life’s just too dull to send in notes sure. “This time I do have something exciting to report...my granddaughter, Kate Dearie will be coming to SBC in the fall as a member of the class of 2023. She fell in love with Sweet Briar when she toured the college with her family and is very excited about going there. It’ll be interesting to hear her thoughts when she gets to school and I look forward to learning about all the wonderful new things that are happening on campus. Please keep us informed; we’re all excited about a granddaughter Vixen.

Glad to hear that you and yours are doing are doing well. I send greeting

from sweltering NYC (we’re in the midst of a heat wave) and warm (no pun intended!) wishes to all.” Direxa, you ain’t seen nothing; try Louisiana in the summertime, and spring and fall as well!

Sad news from Margaret Mapp Young. “My beloved husband of 42 years died in March. My life is very different now, dare I say easier. As a smoker all his life, he died of heart failure and complications of COPD. My boys are wonderful to me, but each has a complicated life without my troubles. I have moved back to Accomac and enjoy this house with the memories of raising our boys here. My knees are not strong and I have become a wimp about pain. I have had one knee replacement when Dick was with me - good success but a lot of work on my part. I also must be becoming lazy! I enjoy living alone with my two yellow labs.” Our prayers are with you, Margaret.

Barbara Tillman Kelly reports, “Carlton and I just got back from a wonderful trip to Tanzania. My cousin and her friend have started a nonprofit, Our One Community.

They sponsor a medical clinic and a school for the Maasai people in Olmoti, Tanzania. We have donated to this and were so pleased to be able to visit for two days. After the visit, the group took a fabulous safari. We still can’t believe that the animals walk right up to the jeeps and in fact, a cheetah cub jumped on the hood of our Jeep and stayed for about 15 minutes! Have been to Tanzania and I agree it is a wonderful country! Our family is fine. Darcy and DJ’s daughter is almost a year old. Time flies!

I am so glad she is here in B’ham!

Maddie arrived so early and spent time in the NICU and now weighs 20 pounds and is the happiest baby ever, not to mention the cutest. (Hey, give me a break, we waited a long time to be grandparents!) We’ll give you a break! We had a good trip to LA to see Dave and Morgan and then took the train to see my cousin in San Diego. A trip to see Trey and Leslie in Charleston was a few weeks after. Life is good!” Yes, it is!

Finally heard from Linda Fite; she has not changed one iota! Here goes: “This is how bad it’s gotten: A) I don’t know if I already sent you anything for this issue of our class notes B) I can’t remember when the LAST

CLASS NOTES he does. And travels all over for a front row seat. Lovely to get a peek at the lives of our peers. Travel certainly seems to be a common activity for most of us. Can’t complain about that! Best to all!”

Priscilla Blackstock Kurz reports, “After a year that has included major surgery and complications, I am finally seeing better days. Rick and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with a party for family and friends. In August, yes, we will cruise the Rhine and I will finally lay eyes on the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. Cheers to everyone!”

Have fun, you deserve it!

Sally Haskel Richardson has no news but she has “the 5 most precious grandchildren on the planet!”

She also keeps in touch with Beth Glaser Issacs. “Was wonderful seeing Beth yesterday. What a fabulous class we had!” Yes, we did and still do!

Sally sends her love to all!

Virginia Stanley Douglas travels a lot and loves it. “Last fall was northern Italy with 10 friends, staying in a villa with 3 people who love to cook; my contribution was making salads every night. My kind of trip — with friends who cook! In February, I was in Maui with girlfriends on a bridge/ golf week of fun. In April our daughter Becky threw a small party for our 50th wedding anniversary. Bill and I had a grand celebration with friends, many of whom are Episcopal priests!

Congratulations and with whom better to celebrate than those who believe in the sanctity of marriage! In June I took Becky and our grandchildren on the Disney Fantasy for a week in the Caribbean. I went snorkeling off two catamaran, and even had to jump off the bow of one of them. Told myself at 73 this was the last time to jump off! We were with another friend of mine and her daughter and grandchildren. The Disney ship was fabulous, endless entertainment and activity and I would NEVER do it again…too old! I know the feeling!

However, the BEST for grandkids, even my two, Miles (14) and Genna (12), had a great time. Bill finally joined me on a trip for July 4 to Cheyenne, WY — a great time with 17 of us (mostly from the October 2018 Italy trip.) Bill (think he caught the traveling bug) and I are off in September to Calgary to visit with my University of London roommate Chargie and her husband Dennis.

There will be mountain hiking I am sure! I have also agreed to chair the Selection Committee for the new dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Sacramento, CA, and that work begins in earnest this fall. Along with caring for Kipling, our mini Australian Shepherd, who turned one in June and playing bridge, life seems very full and we are blessed in so many ways.” Yes you are; I don’t know how you have time to breathe let alone plan more trips and select a Dean!

Patsy Davis Whitehurst and Arthur are still in Durham. She claims, “our most exciting travel these days is to our place at the beach. Another traveler! Daughter Patsy and her family live in Madison, WI, too far away. She and her 3 children came to NC for a week this summer. Her twins are avid lacrosse players and attend UNC lacrosse camp every year. Great fun to have them here.

Son James is director of research at a scientific company outside of Atlanta. I stay busy with tennis, duplicate bridge, garden club activities and working with the board of elections.

Nothing exciting, I’m afraid.” Sounds exciting to me! And I have a grandson who is a lacrosse player. Maybe they’ll all meet on the field one day!

Peggy Pittman Patterson writes, “A wonderful year with visits to Phila Flower Show with three friends and stops to see lots of family in DE and Baltimore, plus Larchmont and Dallas grandchildren. This summer has been trips to Lake Tahoe and Yosemite for my first views of their Western beauty. I will be adjunct faculty at the Episcopal Seminary in Berkeley (CDSP) this fall again. Very stimulating to be back into books and chapel. I also spend about half my Sundays supplying at various East Bay Parishes which is exciting and challenging. I have seen Anne Kern Uher this spring for a long lunch and hope to get to Chatham to see Margaret Williams Hurt this year. I am headed this August to Santa Fe for a week of friends and green chili and music. Miss my New Mexico pals.

Here is to Reunion ’55! Yes ladies, it is closer than we think!

Bill and I are still in Baton Rouge; these ‘notes’ seem to signal hurricanes although Barry was not as bad as some of the previous ones. We had no damage and did not even lose power; most unusual because we do live in an older section of town with

lots of trees just waiting to fall on something. We’re both totally retired although Bill is still active in several organizations. I had some health issues and got off all my community boards but still play bridge. Not to be out done by Victoria, we took two cruises, one to the Bahamas with five other couples and had a great time — even had a captain and cook so we were able to really play. We were home for less than a week and then took the whole blended family (15 of us) on a Caribbean jaunt, never to be repeated (according to me). The ship held 4,000 passengers, a few too many for my taste, but the family enjoyed their vacation. Given my druthers, I’ll stick with the adults on a much smaller vessel! Sweet Briar’s fund-raising results have just been announced; we did an amazing job — $97K+ for a participation rate of 35%! SBC is definitely back in the game! Thanks, everyone!

One small bit of housekeeping: Several of my e-mails came back to me claiming that I am sending SPAM. If you’d like to be removed from my list, please e-mail me. If not, putting my e-mail address — cgrobins@ix.netcom.com — in your address book might do the trick and you will be able to get all my notes.

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Anne Kinsey Dinan 8 Peter Cooper Road, Apt. 11F New York, N.Y. 10010 akdinan@rcn.com Courtney Cash Mustin: SBC’s omnipresence continues to shine!

Last spring, in my position as business services manager for the Virginia Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity, I scheduled a meeting with the director of eonomic development and several others in Powhatan, VA. On arrival, I discovered two more Sweet Briar graduates: Angie Cabell ’89, executive director of the Powhatan Chamber of Commerce and Roxanne Lewis Salerno ’11, economic development program manager for Powhatan County. In late May, I vacationed at historic Warner Hall in Gloucester, VA. where I ran into Sue Morck Perrin ’67. We enjoyed a wonderful cocktail cruise on Memorial Day evening — it was a beautiful tour of lovely homes from the river, includ-

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time I sent in anything (and don’t want to repeat myself ) and C) I’m grateful you remind us to send in our stuff (even though I cannot remember if I’ve done so, when or what!).

Here’s the mini spin of the past year.

In the past 12 months I made lots of trips “abroad,” on the get-it-whileI-can principle, i.e., I can still move and I still have some funds. In October 2018 I went to Cuba with my youngest sister’s group, the Memphis Bar Association — a marvelous trip!

Loved everything about it. Then in Paris, I joined Pam Ford Kelley and another of her pals for Thanksgiving in Paris (bless her heart!), much to my children’s chagrin. And in March I went on a trip to Morocco with Susan Bokan ‘68/transferred to NYU and her friend, Paul. And BOY did I love that trip. Well, now I’m pretty well tapped out. And I stomped all over the planet with my carbon footprint, so I’m going to try to cool it for the rest of the year. Sorta! (I already flew to Wisconsin to visit one sister, to Memphis for another and am planning a trip to Colorado in October for a visit to a third sister.

(Yes, our parents kept trying for a boy.) I just finished a week of Grammy Camp with my two Brooklyn grandsons (ages 10 and barely 13). It was INCREDIBLY hot, but we survived, and no one bit anyone else. Off for beach week in Delaware the first week of August. I live in the Hudson Valley and relish the Catskills and the creeks/streams/lakes and river, but nothing beats the ocean for its restorative power. Peace and love, as Ringo always says.” Keep up the good work, Linda, and keep us dullards informed.

Toni Naren Gates finally checked in with her news. “So great to read what classmates are up to.

Made me feel a little selfish not to share. So, to Linda, we summer to the north of you in The Adirondacks, and a crowbar couldn’t get us off the lake between June and September.

To Betsy, yep! The B&B is open and booked! Family, of course, and Kansas friends who are growing to love our greener Northeast mountains (so different from the Rockies!). To Carol, oh that I could turn my back on the mess. I beg my cleaning help to move in! And, my husband is a basketball freak/geek just like you.

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ing Sue’s. Nothing quite like our Alma Mater!

Carter Hunter Hopkins: In September 2018, I remarried in a special ceremony at home to Debra Casado, surrounded by all of our family and many dear friends. We traveled to Cuba in January 2019.

On June 25, my daughter and her husband, Michael Lewis, who were married in Sweet Briar Chapel in 2011, presented us with our second grandson, Reed Hunter Lewis. He joins his 3-year-old brother securely in my heart!

Amy Thompson McCandless: Steve Wilson and I escaped Charleston’s summer heat by traveling to the Islands — Hawaii (Oahu, Maui, Big Island, Kauai) in June and Jamaica (Negril) in September. In between our trips, Steve went fishing in Alaska in August for the year’s supply of salmon and halibut. I remain active in my church, Grace Church (Episcopal) Cathedral, and at Creekside Tennis Club. Son Colin McCandless and I played mixed doubles in May and June and won all but one of our matches (thanks to him). I also can’t stop giving talks to local historical societies on SC women.

Kristin Kuhns Alexandre: How to Make a Hollywood Movie: First, Gem City, a novel about a Dayton gypsy . . . decent reviews. It should be a movie! Google took me to the American Film Market in LA. Tillie is an orphaned high school grad. She meets up with friends at ALTAR ROCK. A cabdriver, Niko, shows and romance ensues. Things heat up when Niko’s brother brings his yacht to town to break up the romance. If I’d known the roadblocks! Stars K. J. Apa and India Eisley, who are now stars! I’ll tell you after it is sold if it was worth it.

Phoebe Brunner Peacock: I continue to enjoy my retirement and the convenience of living at Watergate South, across from the Kennedy Center, pursuing a variety of volunteer activities. I see Melinda Brown Everett when she comes to visit her grandchildren. I attended Carol Vontz Miller’s fabulous celebration of her 50th wedding anniversary.

Veterinarian daughter Mary (who lives in Philadelphia with her musicologist husband and my grandchildren) has a new veterinary venture to provide medical care and much more. Check it out at Heartandpaw.

com. Daughter Anne’s book was recently published by Routledge: “Human Rights and the Digital Divide.”

Ann Biggs Jackson: I had a busy summer. After spending the first week of May on Marco Island and especially enjoying its wonderful shells, I headed to Normandy for the amazing 75th anniversary of D-Day, followed by a visit to Mont Saint-Michel — c’est fantastique!

Daughter Win accompanied her students to horse shows in Belgium while daughter Cary and family took the summer off for a 10 week trip of a lifetime through the American west and Canada. I enjoyed a few races in Saratoga Springs, NY, before joining them in Vancouver and sightseeing all the way to Banff. In August I checked out overly hot Palm Beach.

In between trips, I oversaw things on the farm, including two mares in foal, and raised (and weeded) 27 varieties of tomatoes! Salutations!

Jennie Lyons Fogarty: I went on a wonderful African safari with my oldest grandchild in August. I’m now working on contacting classmates and making plans for a mini-reunion next spring in Savannah or Charleston. Watch your inbox!

Lynne Gardner Detmer: Jim and I are muddling along after he collapsed last winter with congestive heart failure. He is basically fine now, but must be careful to monitor his activity level. Nevertheless we enjoyed a 3-week cruise in summer 2019 along the northern reaches of Norway and into Russia and back.

We continue to split our time between Virginia and the Adirondacks of NY. And my harp studies are progressing, in spite of my aging fingers and brain! Good wishes to all!

Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp: Hello classmates! It was an honor to be asked to give the commencement address this year. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, the campus was breath-taking and the 30 brave, fierce graduates of 2019 are very special young women. Life continues at a hectic pace, since I am still full-time at CDC, but now have grandchildren to occupy any free time I might have. I hope you are finding meaning and having fun with whatever you are doing at this time in your life.

Much love to all.

Melinda Brown Everett: I was in D.C. in May to see my younger son, Jeff, and family, and attended

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Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp ’68 with her husband Ralph Allsopp, at Sweet Briar’s commencement, May 2019

Kristin Kuhns Alexandre ’68 at the American Film Market pitching her film ALTAR ROCK, due for release soon in theaters

Courtney Cash Mustin ’68 and Sue Morck Perrin ’67 at historic Warner Hall in Gloucester, VA.

Nancy Hickox Wright ’68 and Gil Wright sailing in a cat boat near Vinalhaven Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine, in July

Frances Kirven Morse ’68, front left, and Anne Kinsey Dinan ’68, center back, with their families, enjoying the Loeb Boathouse in New York City’s Central Park during a heat wave!

cozy Vermont farmhouse — a bat which dive-bombed both of us until Gil forced him out the door with a broom! Sound familiar, Camilla Reid Hazlehurst and Phoebe Brunner Peacock?

Anne Kinsey Dinan: It was wonderful seeing Frances Kirven Morse here in NYC last July with her husband John and their grandchildren, Ash and Xylia. Terry and I, our children, Ashley and Kinsey, son-in-law Bobby and grandchildren, Evie and Sebastian, all joined them for a delightful and exhausting Dinan-Morse family day in New York’s ever-fascinating Central Park!

Finally, Frances Kirven Morse, Nancy Hickox Wright and I continue to search for “missing” classmates.

So, please, please, please — if you receive this Alumnae Magazine but did not receive an email requesting news, write or email me. My street and email addresses are above, at the top of the 1968 class news entries.

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Kristin Herzog 20060 Tavernier Dr. Estero, FL 33928 703-591-9929 kherzogart.hotmail.com Mary Jane Hipp Brock writes that they now have a first grandchild, Lily Lawrence Deringer, born in January 2019, daughter of our daughter Susanna and her husband who teaches at MIT. Susanna has just completed her Ed.D. from Johns Hopkins and is figuring out what’s next in addition to being a new mom. Her son Walker and his wife Olivia are in Charleston and he is busy launching a snack product called Nutty Goodness and other entrepreneurial endeavors and she is a rising designer specializing in historic homes. Mary Jane is looking forward to reunions with fellow classmates Jessica Holzer and Wallis Wickham Raemer when they come to visit me in East Hampton in August. They arrive in time to attend a performance by the NYC Ballet and then to enjoy a post-performance dinner we host for the dancers and guests. In September, all of the Carpe Diems (Wallis, Jessica, Frances Gravely, Connie Haskell, Lorie Harris Amass, May Humpreys Fox

and Katie McCardell Webb and me) will come together in VA beach at Katie’s home for a few days. We’ll send a pic!

Heather Tully Click is looking forward to seeing many classmates at reunion in May 2020. She and her husband Richard have been in northern Virginia for three years now. He finally got brave and retired this year and has been very busy acting as their travel agent ever since! A long delayed rafting trip on the Colorado River to see the full length of the Grand Canyon is on the agenda for this July. Their son and daughter and their families are still close by in Old Town Alexandria so we enjoy seeing our four grandchildren (ages 1, 1 1/2, 3 and 3 1/2) quite regularly. Trips to the Smithsonian museums and George Washington’s Mt. Vernon are particularly fun! They will come to SBC for Sweet Work Weeks this summer!

Kate Schlech stays active with yoga once a week and several volunteer jobs — docent and gallery guide at Library of Congress, local library book shelver, and, my newest gig as a volunteer at the International Spy Museum. Lots of travel, local and foreign. Last spring she had a wonderful 2-week trip to Costa Rica to commune with the birdies. This past Feb was a 3- week trip to Jordan (including Petra) and Egypt (including 6 days cruising the Nile on a small sailing boat called a dehabeya). It’s a trip I’ve wanted to do since I was 10 and I figured 60 years was long enough to wait! Next up in Jan 2020 will be a tenting safari to Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana with an add-on to Capetown. Yippee!

Will be down at SBC this summer for a week or so at Sweet Work Weeks and hope to see some of the classmates like Ann Gateley and Annie Tedards.

In late June 2019, Pam Piffath Still, Susan Lykes Mueller, Karen Hartnett and Kay Parham Picha joined two other couples for a wonderful cruise up the Danube River, from Buda Pest to Prague.

This group has gotten together with each other frequently over the years, but this was undoubtedly the most “elegant” gathering — on the Tauck ship MS Joy, and it was just that — pure joy! Plus a lot of champagne, of course!

Heather Tully Click ’70 encountered the sweet briar rose in the garden of an historic house in Annapolis while visiting at the U.S. Naval Academy in May.

Stuart Camblos ’70 partying with Vieve Minor ’70

Kate Schlech ’70 on her trip to Egypt in Feb. 2019

Ann Gately ’70 and Betty Rau Santandrea ’70 going undercover in Albuquerque

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Randy Rainbow’s hilarious show with Phoebe Brunner Peacock.

I am doing a weekly radio show, “Books from Off the Beaten Path.”

Samuel Johnson said: “Only a blockhead writes for no pay,” but it’s fun.

It’s available as a free podcast at ncmhub.org. Click on the cloud icon, and go to “The Morning Show.” I’m on during the last 20 minutes. I also play Trivia twice a week with high school friends. We usually finish in the top three. We’re old — we know a lot!

Barbara Baur Dunlap writes that she is happy to be mended from her pelvic fractures from a fall and Charlie’s knee replacement and blot clot! Onward and upward like SBC. She had a great time seeing Jackie Israel Blakeslee and Kathy Israel Starnes, Marianne Schultz Galt and Anne Stupp McAlpin at their 55th high school reunion.

Martha Bennett Pritchett Conner: I am a bionic woman having had my second hip replaced last April.

Three of my 4 children live nearby and the fourth, Poston, moved from Houston to Kansas City. Husband C.V. and I will visit soon. My daughters have two girls, 26 and 20 months, and are expecting boys this fall. My granddaughter (11) and I will be busy with babies. I’m still working in real estate and enjoy volunteering with The Center for Child and Family Health and Board chair of the Friends of Durham Public Schools Hub Farm, a 30-acre farm.

Frances Kirven Morse: Husband John and I somehow survived selling our wonderful 8-room house in Redwood City, downsized 50 years of stuff, and moved 5 miles down the road to a 3-room unit in Channing House — an exciting retirement community in Palo Alto. In July, John and I took our grandkids, Ash and Xylia, to the east coast for a grandparent-grandkid theater workshop (Aints and Asses experience was helpful) and 5 days of sightseeing and musicals in NYC where we had great fun wandering around Central Park with Anne Kinsey Dinan and her family.

Nancy Hickox Wright: Gil and I spent the month of July back in New England visiting family and old friends. One old friend we did not hope to see arrived while we were peacefully reading in our

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Back row: Susan Lykes Mueller ’70, Swedish friend Sigrid de Gere, Kay Parham Picha ’70. Front: Karen Hartnett ’70, Pam’s neighbor Dale Sauser, Pam Piffath ’70 on their Danube cruise

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Susan McGrath Slate and husband Jim are thrilled to be living near their daughter Garnet, grandson Andrew and their four great-grandchildren, ages 1 to 41/2! Each one is adorable and loving, and smart — what else could they be? They were all here for Father’s Day! They brought food; Garnet made a delicious cake. By the time my angels left, Jim and I were about to keel over! Susan’s health has prevented traveling much in the past several years. Fibromyalgia has been plaguing her for many years. It’s a painful autoimmune disease. more so with age. To top that off, last year, she was diagnosed with Lymphoma. Their “baby,” Charlie, is a 12-yr old American Cocker Spaniel, black and white, and the love of all of our neighbors!

He goes to visit each of them every day and loves his visits, as do they!

He’s another reason that we don’t travel. We don’t want to put him in a kennel. We have taken him across country twice by car, but we were all younger and more spry then!

Sandy Hamilton Bentley says she and Bob are still enjoying our 6 grandchildren in North Carolina.

She met up with Fran Dornette Schafer in Bermuda for a few days in April, then joined her in DC in June to see the visiting Tintoretto exhibit at the National Gallery — and took in a couple of Nationals baseball games. She and Bob head off to some of the wilder parts of England and Scotland for a couple of weeks in September, part family visit and part tramping around the countryside.

May Humphreys Fox reports that she is enjoying a semi-retired status and using new found free time to travel and see coast to coast grandchildren (5 of them ages 6, 5, 4, 2 and 2) She and Charlie spent time in New Zealand earlier this year and loved it so much they are heading back next February and have added a trek in Tasmania too! They will also head to Ukraine this September. But the most important upcoming “trip” is the annual gathering late September of the Carpe Diems at Katie Webb’s House in Virginia Beach.

Seven of us (Katie, Wallis, Mary Jane, Jessica, Lorie and Frances — Connie unfortunately can’t make it) will spend 4 days with lots of good food, reminiscing and making more memories!

Lawson Calhoun Kelly writes that even in retirement they are still crazy busy! She went with her church on a fabulous trip to Greece and Turkey trying to retrace the “Footsteps of Paul.” It was amazing the conditions Paul endured to witness to the love and healing power he encountered on the road to Damascus. Even though we went to some of the cities Paul visited, like Phillipi, Thessaloniki, Athens, Corinth and Ephesis, we couldn’t begin to recreate the beatings, ship wrecks and imprisonment Paul suffered. His perseverance and courage earn him a platform to be heard even today.

They also took a trip to Iceland this summer. It was such a fascinating country that we want to go back to see the Northern Lights during the winter. The people are marvelous entrepreneurs, harnessing the same destructive power of volcanos that destroy their homes to heat 98% of their intact homes with geothermal energy. They have a 99% literacy rate and little crime. A beautiful place to visit! Besides traveling, she is enjoying grandchildren, gardening and golf. Life is good! Hope to see my SBC friends soon!

Nia Eldridge Eaton reports that Year 1 of retirement has been good, with a few re-adjustments to the cadence of volunteer life from the drive/drive/drive of business. Been a joy to re-connect with people, explore new interests & generally smell the flowers — trite but true. She loves her volunteer guide work at Winterthur, HF Dupont’s fabulous

estate, and hopes to enter the docent program at Brandywine River Museum (AKA Wyeth), dog rescue and other volunteer activities. She enjoyed a fun week at condo in Bethany Beach, DE, with friends getting it ready for rental.

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Class Secretaries: Mary Frances Oakey Aiken jmaiken4@me.com Anne Milbank Mell anne.mell@yahoo.com Beverly Van Zandt beverlyvz@gmail.com Frances Barnes Kennamer happily turned 70 in May with her two precious granddaughters. Catherine is 3 1/2 and Francie just turned one. She spends a great deal of time in Nashville with daughter, Helen, her husband, and these two. Husband, Seabie, joins her when he can although he has not yet “let go” of several commitments in Montgomery. During the summer, she leaves Montgomery to divide her time between Nashville and Highlands, NC. She thanks the good Lord for her health so she can safely make so many road trips.Frances’s other passion is golf! She has made several sweet new friends through golf in Nashville and Highlands and plays wherever and whenever she can. Her goal is to achieve an 18 handicap, and although she is fairly close, she is certain she is already playing at her peak ability!

Frances had an unexpected mini-reunion with Linda Whitlow Knight at the Nashville airport.

Linda was putting her daughter on a plane back to Italy where she lives.

In just a few short minutes they managed to catch up on twenty plus years. Linda looks stunning, just like she did in 1971 except that she has a head full of gorgeous white hair. Linda plans to come to our 50th reunion in 2021 as do I. Frances stays in touch with Martha Roton Terry, Amanda Megargee Sutton and Brooke Thomas Dold. As she reported earlier, they had a mini reunion in 2017 at her Highlands house to celebrate the total solar eclipse. The eclipse was a total bust because of a heavy cloud cover, but they had so much fun

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Frances Kennamer ’71 and grandchildren

together. They are planning a 2020 winter get-together somewhere on the Gulf Coast to celebrate their 70th birthdays. She can’t wait to see EVERYONE at SBC in 2021!

Dre Bateman reports that she is still working and writing. Her sister moved to Florida and her niece and family are in Tallahassee. Dre enjoys being active in her local Sweet Briar Club. She sends love to all.

Ron and Barbie Gracey Backer are expecting another grandchild in January 2020 to add to their collective brood. They are both still working and taking some time off to travel; with plans to go to the Far East in March of 2020. Barbie loves reading about our classmates and hopes everyone is in good health.

Claire Kinnett Tate writes that all is well at the old age of 69 though some of these numbers astound her: married to John for 47 years, 2 wonderful children and their equally wonderful spouses and 4 adorable grandchildren under the age of 4! Life is busy with lots of travel,

ed to have a drivable distance to see 3-year-old Mather (Maggie’s little namesake!).

Wendy Norton Brown loves seeing, being with and loving her 4 grandchildren! She and Lee are blessed! Aren’t grandchildren the best? She sends her best to all!

Alix Sommer Smith writes that she retired from the Stafford County Public Schools (VA) in 2004, but continues to interview candidates for the Governor’s School and coordinates evaluations of Virginia’s Governor’s Schools. She also is active with two book groups, a needlework group, her church’s food pantry and also serves on the Board of the girls camp where she previously worked.

Alix lost her second husband to lung cancer in 2015. Alix said she loves reading about “fierce” Sweet Briar and has even started collecting “vixen” pieces. She thinks our 50th reunion will be monumental and plans to be there!

Martha Stewart Crosland writes that she became a grandmother Jan. 15, and is loving it. Plus, best of all, grandson Edward’s family moved to a new house that is a 5-minute walk from Martha and her husband’s home. Martha is still working for the Department of Energy on nuclear legal issues, and she and Ed continue to enjoy trips to their home in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Daughter, Mallory, lives in New Jersey and is engaged to the head golf pro at Arcola Country Club just outside of NYC. Anne Wiglesworth Munoz writes that she and Milton have had a really busy and challenging year.

Anne had a stroke last November while traveling in India and Nepal. but received excellent (and inexpensive!) care in Jaipur, and they were able to continue their tour. Within a week she had no more symptoms and was able to dance with some local high school performers in Chitwan NP! Anne feels very lucky and is feeling great now. Anne also reported that in February they bought a house in Tucson so that they can be closer to their daughters and their families. Later this year she and Milton will take his mother’s ashes to Colombia and will also spend a little extra time exploring Medellin.

Nesi Wisell O’Connor writes that her husband, Jim, died in Dec. 2017, and that she has been traveling a lot and visiting friends to try to

make a new life for herself. She visits Alix Smith and has had an occasional lunch with Carol Remington Fogelsong. Nesi spent last August in Guernsey and is headed there again, plus going to the Shetland Islands and France.

Rosanne Woodruff emailed that as for news from her, there’s not much to relate. She is making improvements to the landscaping around her house, along with pruning and weeding the various plants/ beds! She is contemplating some time at SBC during Sweet Weeks but has no definite dates yet — who else will be going? Rosanne also included suggestions for our 50th. She would like to have a list of all of our classmates — those that are located, as well as, those we need to locate and to include all who began as classmates our freshman year. She said she has enjoyed seeing all classmates at recent SBC reunions and also suggested having a list of those who are deceased, with dates if possible.

Barbara Wuehrmann wrote that the past year was a huge travel year.

She spent last summer in Frisco, CO, and then traveled to Australia in October for a 3 1/2 week birding trip that included Tasmania. Then to Washington, DC, for Thanksgiving with her brother and another trip to Colorado to ski. On to New Zealand in February for a hiking trip with the Sierra Club where they covered most of the South Island. Barbara is now back in Colorado escaping the summer heat of Arizona.

On a very sad note, Sally Uptegrove Lee lost her husband Bob to cancer in July.

In closing, please put Reunion 2021 on your calendars. Bev, Mary Frances and I send our best to all!

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Jill Johnson MarySue Morrison Thomas 98 Pine Bluff Portsmouth, VA 23701 72sweetbriar@gmail.com Ellen Apperson Brown lives in Asheville, NC, and works part-time as a companion caregiver for clients with dementia. As part of her duties she enjoys using literature therapy, or reading aloud from classics, such as “Anne of Green Gables” and “Because of Winn Dixie.” Otherwise,

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Susan Greenwald ’71, her husband, George, and Dee Kysor, out to dinner in Philadelphia last fall

babysitting 2 little ones in Charlotte, NC and 2 in New Zealand. Claire is trying to balance her good life with community service with preschool children, women’s giving circle and church. She enjoys precious time with old friends and her big family.

And it is still difficult getting accustomed to being the oldest generation — missing Mom and Dad! Claire is looking forward to our BIG Sweet Briar reunion!

Dee Kysor reports that it has been a busy time for her and her family. During a lovely visit to Philadelphia with Susan Greenwald and her family, she injured her knee. It required arthroscopic knee surgery in December but is now fully healed.

Last year Dee bought a retired lesson horse, named Badger. She hasn’t been able to do much with him due to the knee injury, but is now starting groundwork with him and hopes to be riding again soon. She continues to love her job as music director of Grace Episcopal Church in Goochland, VA. Dee’s daughter, Jenn, is still a professor of psychology at Canisius College in Buffalo. Jenn and her colleagues just landed a huge grant to study aging and autism.

Jill Lowry Wiemer has had a blessedly quiet year. She welcomed her 8th grandchild who lives in Sweden. George and she went to meet him and then traveled on to Africa in February to celebrate turning 70!

They fell in love with Tanzania and Kenya and highly recommend travelling there. Most of the summer was spent in Highlands, NC, enjoying their stateside grandchildren.

George and she also took a fun trip to Italy with one of their daughters and her family. They continue to be blessed with relatively good health and wish the same for all her fellow SBC roses and their families.

Maggie Mather Feldmeier says that work, travel and grands pretty much describe her life today. Blessed with good health, Jake and she are enjoying this chapter of life. Their next big trip is to South America in the fall! Daughter Kate (and their 2 adorable grandsons, 9 and 6) live nearby in Cazenovia. They love watching their soccer, lacrosse and other activities. Julie has just moved to Charlottesville, VA (old stomping grounds for Maggie!), with Matt taking a job at UVA (part of liver transplant team) so they are delight-

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Jean Andrews and DeDe Conley during March 2019 visit to San Francisco

DeDe Conley and Marisha Bourgeois ’99 of Juneau, Alaska, part of the Iditarod Alumnae team reconnecting at Reunion

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President for Life Marion Walker and board chair Georgie Vairo with Leigh Ann White ’86. They’re ready to BBQ!

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Ellen still enjoys researching and writing about her favorite topics: the New York Adirondacks and the Virginia Frontier. She is thinking about donating her large family archive to the college, someday soon.

Dale Shelly Graham and husband, James, are thrilled that both of their children, Fielding and Lily, are engaged to wonderful people. After years of waiting, Dale reports that

she’s going to be a MOB and MOG both in 2020!

Claudine Clarke Elian is currently living in Switzerland, near Lucerne, and travels to the U.S. as needed to continue her art activities. She works under the name of C.C. Elian and is known for developing Elian script; please Google it to see. She travels back to Manhattan, mostly, and does her rounds between there,

Sedro-Woolley, which is North of Seattle, and L.A. Chances are good that she will relocate to the U.S. soon since her companion recently retired from University teaching. Contact from former classmates is most welcome!

Jeannette Pillsbury hopes that by the next set of class notes, she will be settled in Virginia. She is working to sell her house in Iowa and to find a place in Amherst/Sweet Briar.

By the end of July, she will be truly retired from her many years as a professional teacher. As you know, she continues to rally for Sweet Briar.

Jeannette really appreciates the interaction she has with her classmates. It is a gift to work together with friends who shared a formative time in their lives.

Georgene Vairo continues to enjoy the challenge of chairing the Sweet Briar Board of Directors and working with President Woo to chart our future. She enjoyed a fortuitous visit from Marion Walker, along with Vixen sisters Leigh Ann White ’86 and Alexa Schriempf ’97.

They picked favorites from Georgie’s garden and had a great BBQ. Deirdre Conley reports that she had an amazing trip to the Iditarod in Alaska in March along with 8 other alumnae to support musher Alison Lifka ‘13! Snow, ice, dogs racing, wild Alaska, Denali, the Northern lights and brilliant alumnae were all on tap! She saw Liz Clegg Woodard ‘72 and Brooke Thomas Dold ‘71 in Houston while getting a visa to China. DeDe traveled for two months in China with husband Gerard. She says China is welcoming and impressive, historic and more modern than imaginable. On her way back from China, DeDe spent several fun days with Jean Andrews and her husband in San Francisco. She made it to reunion and saw Jeannette Pillsbury and plans to see Jean Chaloux Miani in Milan in October!

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Evelyn Carter Cowles PO Box 278 Free Union, VA 22940 ecc52@icloud.com Glenys Dyer Church: I am enjoying retirement and getting a lot of scrapbooking done. I had a great time at reunion last year. It was won-

derful to see classmates and the campus again. Hearing President Woo speak on how the college is doing was very heartening. I returned for a couple of days in August to visit with Chris Mendel Prewitt during Work Days. It was wonderful to visit and catch up after too many years.

Lisa Fowler Winslow: It’s been a real busy summer full of travel for me. I started off by going to my 50th high school reunion in Hawaii…so much fun! I spent time up in Lake Tahoe and then off to Canada (Lake Louise, Calgary, etc). I am looking forward to the fall and taking some classes. life and retirement are great!

Alison Baker: I always love my annual visits with Abigail Allen Rennicamp who has inspired me with her knowledge of plants and horticulture (plus experiencing her fabulous gardens in KY). I currently enjoy working at Atlanta Botanical Gardens and sharing a love of nature with all our visitors.

Sandie Schwartz Tropper: The only thing I have to report is that I have been made a fellow in the American Society of Appraisers, the organization that accredits appraisers. This is the highest level of membership and an honor by fellow professionals.

Kathy Pretzfelder Steele: My husband Dave and I continue to enjoy retirement and our life in Florida.

We have happy news: our daughter, Tracy, was married in 2018 in Atlanta and is expecting a baby boy in November. This will be our third grandchild, and the first boy in the family so it should be interesting!

When not spending time with our 2 granddaughters, who live nearby, we keep busy serving on community boards and clubs, playing pickleball, swimming and traveling two or three times a year to our favorite getaway on Hilton Head Island. This past summer we also took our granddaughters to Marco Island; and Dave and I spent a week in Breckenridge, CO enjoying the mountains and visiting good friends.

Trish Gilhooly O’Neill: I just got back from Tibet, which has always been a place I have wanted to visit. I went to my 50th high school class reunion of the Hong Kong International School in July. The location was put to a vote and we ended up in Seattle. My husband just fully retired and we live between Greenwich, CT, and Hawaii. Our two sons

are in NYC area and we see them often. We spend a lot of our time in Europe, where we have lived longer than anywhere else.

Mary Buxton: I have settled into retirement by working on CA climate legislation with the 350 Silicon Valley Legislative Team and on protecting the environment as a member of Sierra Club Loma Prieta Executive Committee. Pretty interesting. I am have been fly fishing and spending lots of time in Lake Tahoe.

We plan a Mississippi River Cruise from New Orleans to Memphis in October so I am reading lots of history and literature.

Diane Wood Keyser: After running Wake Smiles, a volunteer dental clinic in Raleigh, NC, for 6.5 years, I retired Aug. 2. My career in dentistry is ending. I have been a dental assistant, a dental assisting instructor and an executive director of a dental clinic for the past 40 years. My next project is to become certified to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) part-time. I’ve got to have something to keep me from watching Netflix all day! I also have lots of unread books at my house, an overgrown garden and growing grandsons to keep me busy.

M. Christina Hegarty Savage: I’m so enjoying my two year old and newborn grandsons. Sometime around Nov. 8 I’ll be enjoying grandchild #3. So far the gender of this baby is a surprise. I’ll still be babysitting 2 days a week for the 2-year-old and then also the new baby in February. Between babysitting for the little ones and pickleball the other 3 days a week (followed by coffee, donuts and gab). I’m keeping out of trouble and enjoying a wonderful retirement.

Kathyn Thilking Maginnis: I really enjoyed going to my Hawaii high school class’ 50th reunion this year. followed by a transatlantic cruise on Queen Mary II. We have relocated to the Del Webb Ponte Vedra community.

Diane Dale Reiling: Our family took a “bucket list” trip to France this summer We went barging through Burgundy! Great wine and terrific memories. I am amazed at how much French vocabulary I have retained! In September, I attended my 50th high school reunion in Chicago. Strangely enough, no one from my family lives in Chicago anymore, so it seems odd to visit there. My

Airbnb suite is available for you if you find yourselves coming to southern Oregon for Rogue Valley wine or Shakespearean plays!

Renee Renata Sterling: I spent a glorious week in Colorado for the July 4th holiday. Those mountains are spectacular. Wearing my pink SBC T-shirt at a Saturday open market, I was stopped by a Kathy W(?) ’75. Small world!

Ann Major Gibb: Our big news is the addition of our first granddaughter born in June. She joins older twin brothers and we are thrilled.

They are in Wynnewood, PA, so close enough to visit often. Our son is in LA so we have been there recently as well.

Noreen Conover Reed: Busy summer! My second granddaughter, Lucy Maddox Reed, was born on June 24, 2019. Her daddy, my son Craig, just finished his fellowship at UNC in gastroenterology and will be joining the faculty there as an associate professor. My daughter, Melissa, married her Prince Charming on Sept. 1. Gee, I need a vacation!

Susan Dern Plank: I had lots of fun playing with grandchildren (3 and 7) visiting from TN for 2 1/2 weeks. I see Laurie Norris Coccio (an excellent instructor) from time to time to play Mah Jongg. Great fun! Have a kayaking trip planned to Muskegon Bay, ME, in Aug., a friends’ 50th anniversary party in Chicago and my youngest niece will spend her semester break with us from Ross Univ. School of Vet. Medicine as part of a family gathering. I will then have a visit from St Andrews friends in Sept. and a TN visit in Oct. Jeanne Schaefer Bingham: I am still a base voice in the church choir and I crochet with a church group at my house to make giveaways for the needy. I visit VERY often with 3 grandsons who live next door.

Evelyn Carter Cowles: I have still been painting, riding, gardening and fishing as usual. Reynolds and I just spent a month at our house in MT, taking 2 side trips. The first was a 2-day fishing excursion on the Missouri River with fantastic dry fly fishing. The second was in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in northwest MT. We packed in 2 days with horses and mules, spent one day wade fishing in camp and then floated out fishing the last 3 days. The scenery, the fishing

and the people taking care of us were all fantastic. A trip of a lifetime!

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Bonnie Chronowski Brophy 160 Bellevue Avenue Summit, NJ 07901 b.c.brophy@comcast.net Vickie Bates writes that she and David moved from Tallahassee, FL, to Oceanside, CA, two years ago where they’re loving the cooler, sunnier weather and waking up to ocean and mountain vistas. David continues to advise math students, mostly in Europe, and is learning electric guitar. Vicky teaches Tai Chi in Poway and San Diego, treats (osteopathically) a few friends and neighbors in exchange for donations to SBC, takes harp and Spanish lessons and enjoys bird watching and photography clubs in their 55+ community. They have a couple of cruises planned for the coming year!

Nancy Blackwell Marion writes that she’s still working, publishing books — mostly local history and art ones. She’s renovating an old house for one of their daughters and hubby to live in. The plan is to downsize and move to the daughter’s existing house, (the site of Nancy’s old office in downtown Lynchburg) where she’ll relocate her current office as well. Since the three kids are grown and independent, she and Dave are rattling around in their big, old house for now.

Bonnie Chronowski Brophy writes that she and Helen Travis enjoyed catching up on the trip down and back to SBC for reunion in May. Sadly, her vacation plans were precluded by her step-mom’s sudden death in July, and she’s still in FL settling her dad’s affairs, preparing to bring him to NJ: no pilgrimage to the only US Marian Shrine (in WI) with the Order of Malta, no girls weekend in Lake Geneva, WI, and no time on Nantucket. But visiting with Pam Cogghill Graham in Palm City for her annual Derby Day bash was great fun even though her horse was disqualified! She’s looking forward to playing again with her grandson, resuming the 13th year of bible study she leads for 40 women, and volunteering at St. Ann’s soup kitchen in Newark.

Mary Landon Darden writes

that she and Susan White Hough enjoyed reunion and spending time with Holly Hoffman Frazier. She just signed a contract for a second book on the future of higher education, and her company trains college presidents in entrepreneurism and innovation. Mary hopes to retire in 3-4 years and to be able to join the SBC August work crews with classmates.

Pam Cogghill Graham and Debbie Hooker Sauers enjoyed visiting Sue Castle Rolewick at her new home in Lake Geneva, WI, in late July, an annual tradition.

Ruthie Willingham Lentz was sorry to miss Reunion this year since it coincided with a Willingham family trip to the beach to scatter the ashes of her brother Dick (RIP May 2018). She’s winding down her Wells Fargo Advisors practice (introducing clients to her partner who’ll take over), traveled to Spain and Italy in August, serving in her church soup kitchen and participating in civic commitments (Leadership Memphis). We’re invited to Google Women’s Suffrage Anniversary for all the exciting events planned around the 100th celebration, and visit her in Memphis so she can show us a grand time in the Bluff City! Our condolences, Ruthie.

After connecting with 1974 classmates at our 45th Reunion, Elaine Mills and her husband Bob, spent an enjoyable two weeks on the road visiting friends and family in Charlotte, Atlanta and Asheville.

While there, she had an opportunity to visit four lovely gardens and took several thousand photos for her ongoing contributions to a photo library of native plants for her Arlington/Alexandria unit of the Master Gardener program. The trip ended with a relaxing stay at a mountain cabin with daughter Jenny and son Chris and his family.

Rossie Ray Spell writes that she and hubby moved from Atlanta to I’On in Mt. Pleasant, SC in Nov., 2018 and are enjoying being so close to Charleston. She’s learning to play Mahjong and Canasta with a fun group of ladies, sees Tricia Barnett Greenberg and hubby, Phil often, and had a nice visit last year with Elizabeth Andrews Watts and Bobby in Atlanta. Rossie shares a love of fly fishing with her other half and made their annual trip to Missou-

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la, MT in June for three days. They missed seeing Meredith Thompson Sullivan and John (since she had just had surgery). Rossie had her two granddaughters visit for the July 4th weekend, and will have a 2nd hip replacement soon to be in good shape for our 50th. Contact her if in the area!

After reunion, Susan Stephens Geyer, Leslie Elbert Hill, Jane Hutcherson Frierson and Elizabeth Andrews Watts spent a wonderful few days at The Greenbrier enjoying the facilities and each other.

This summer Elizabeth and hubby, Bobby have had fun boating and welcoming visitors, and are planning a Caribbean cruise aboard the Queen Mary 2 in October.

Marcia Brandenburg Martinson had a wonderful time reconnecting with classmates at our 45th Reunion in May. She is honored to serve as our class president for the next 5 years, and hopes that many more of our classmates will join us in 2024 for our 50th. Thank you, Marcia, for your yes!

Lynn Watson Norfleet writes that she and husband Ian are enjoying retirement and have had an active 14 months from IA to SC. All of their children are married now: stepson, Dan Norfleet; son, Andrew Philpott; and daughter, Dr. Katherine Philpott, and traveling to visit them keeps them happily busy.

Drea Peacock Bender had her left knee replaced in July, 2018, and was still recuperating the first of ‘19 when Deb Hooker Sauers, Gary and their sweet golden retriever, Duke, visited. (Sadly, Duke passed away not long after they got home!)

During the last 7 months, Drea’s been remodeling the house she bought while hubby, Mark was in the hospital. Wanting a smaller, one level one on the lake, her long anticipated garden shed is being completed as she writes. After Labor Day the family is headed to CT for youngest son, Scott’s wedding. The future in-laws met on the Isle of Palms in late July, and everyone got along famously. Oldest grandchild, Austen, just started at Tufts, and will spend her first semester in Peru. The other 3: Ian, 14, Catherine, 12 and Gracie, almost 6, begin 8th, 6th grades and kindergarten, respectively. Now that they are only 7 minutes away, the Benders hope to help out more with their after school activities.

Last April, Julie Shuer became an Israeli citizen, spending 5 months a year there, facilitating her travel to the Baltics, Morocco, So. Africa, England and Berlin in recent years. Son Benji and his wife Rachel live in Jerusalem with first grandchild, Maia Yaira. Daughter Gaby lives in their apartment in Tel Aviv. The weather is always best in LA which is where she and hubby are every summer where third child, Sofia, is in pastry school. ( Julie hopes to enjoy samples!)

Jana Sawicki lives in Southern VT with her partner of 31 years, Laurie, and two East German Shepherds. She teaches philosophy at Williams College and is currently chairing the department.

Carey Thomas Slesinger writes that she and husband Victor have been living in Wellington, FL, for the last 25 years. She’s been teaching Spanish and French in the U. of Cambridge program at Park Vista high school. They are planning on retiring at the end of this year to either NC or VA (which would be full circle)! Daughter Noel lives in Chicago, and is working on her PhD at Northwestern. As empty nesters, they’d be happy if anyone dropped in!

Mary Witt remarks that at reunion, it’s as if we’re still students at SBC, and finds President Woo’s accomplishments and vision for our alma mater impressive. A highlight for her was spending extra time with roomie and matron of honor, Liz Thomas Camp in Lynchburg’s Craddock Terry Inn and touring part of “downtown.” Volunteer activities keep Mary busy: St. Mary’s Hospital, UVa School of Medicine and reading (along with hubby Fritz) for a service for the print-handicapped (those with visual impairments and neurological conditions that make it difficult to hold newspapers and books). She loves her own reading and lunching out with friends, among whom is Sandra Taylor. A big vacation is planned in October to Spain: Barcelona, the Alhambra in Granada and Madrid.

Tracy James remembers Sweet Briar and the environs vividly and with great fondness, and is happy to see SBC reaffirming and reinventing her mission. The people, environment and challenges nudged (and sometimes booted) her forward with love and support. Tracy retired from her law practice early in 2019

(after 38 years in public and private sectors), continues to serve as a mediator (12 years) and on several boards, is starting her third year of acting studies at Denver Center for Performing Arts Theatre School, and volunteers in legal clinics. In 2017 Tracy had a wonderful pointto-point ride across Cowal Peninsula in SW Scotland (85 miles in 4.5 days) on Ava “with an Attitude” (Tracy’s nickname), an athletic and very forward horse — a marvelous trek with unforgettable scenery and the ultimate focus of 2.5 weeks travel through England and Scotland. She graduated from Colorado College as an art studio major and served as exhibit designer for the Children’s Museum in Denver (along with other endeavors) prior to going to law school. She’d love to host any classmates who live in CO or are passing through the Denver area.

After reunion, Elaine Mills and hubby Bob spent an enjoyable two weeks on the road visiting friends and family in Charlotte, Atlanta and Asheville which included photographing four lovely gardens for her ongoing contributions to a photo library of native plants for her Arlington/Alexandria unit of the Master Gardener program. The trip ended with a relaxing stay at a mountain cabin with daughter Jenny and son Chris and his family.

Mimi Hill Wilk enjoyed a mini reunion with Lou Weston Rainey and hubby Rip at their beach house in DeBordieu, SC, riding bikes, touring the botanical gardens, concerting at the beach club and Brookgreen.

Back in AZ, grandson Heath turned 2 as big brother, Georgie helped out.

Ginny Sutton Wood is semi-retired, still living in Marietta, GA, with her dog and parrot, teaching undergrad psychology part time at Kennesaw State U., and would love to hear from anyone living close by or just passing through!

Helen Travis writes that she continues to manage the old family property: The Homestead Farm.

Her great accomplishment (and great sorrow) has been to quit drinking; her sober date is Oct. 6, 2017.

She continues to work full time at The LiRo Group near her home in Syosset, NY. Though not planning to visit Beirut, Lebanon this year, she looks forward to her sister traveling to NY in February 2020.

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L to r: After Reunion, Susan Stephens Geyer ’74, Leslie Elbert Hill ’74, Jane Hutcherson Frierson ’74 and Elizabeth Andrews Watts ’74 spent a wonderful few days at The Greenbrier enjoying the facilities and each other.

The “Dancing Queens” rocking out at the ABBA concert there!

L to r: Sue Castle Rolewick ’74, Pam Cogghill Graham ’74 and Debbie Hooker Sauers ’74

hubby Bill have much going on: STILL building their “forever” home on Lake Lewisville, TX, hoping to move in by Thanksgiving; starting a small winery 2 years ago where Ann is chief taster; and an upcoming cruise along the New England coast this fall. Their son, a hopeful entrepreneur, lives nearby, and their daughter works in Chicago for an executive search firm that serves the insurance industry.

Wendy White writes she always loves getting back up on a horse and riding across our beautiful campus at Reunion. One daughter finished a Tuck MBA in June and moved to NY — looking for a job with a “startup” or young company — any leads appreciated! The other interned at Mars Petcare in Nashville and is

starting her second year of Fuqua MBA. Wendy and hubby Paul lost their 17-yr-old puppy, Millie, in late March, but a week’s trip to London, Dartmoor Forest and Bath was a successful distraction. In February she went to Thailand for a nephew’s wedding followed by a few days in Japan, and just returned from a week at The Hideout Lodge & Guest Ranch in Shell, WY.

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Anne Cogswell Burris 1437 Headquarters Plantation Drive Johns Island, SC 29455 acburris@comcast.net Karen Bewick: I am very busy (as usual). I am restarting a residential real estate career with the Long and Foster Warrenton, VA, office. My spouse and I are building an Equine Assisted Mental Health Therapy practice, and we are increasing the number of beehives while still renovating our farm. In addition, we are building our Buddhist sangha.

This past year I finished remodeling the horse run in shed/blacksmith shop into our little house overlooking the pond and gutting/redoing the main house kitchen. This fall, I plan to remodel the master bath.

If anyone needs a place to stay outside Washington, DC, we’d love to host you. I am so proud of SBC and am looking forward to seeing everyone next year at our reunion.

Betsy Brooks Jones: Tombo and I visited our son Thomas in London recently. Our daughter Brownrigg has two children Jack (6 1/2) and Libby (4) who live in Arlington, VA, so we love having them visit us at the beach and in Franklin. In March I had a fun trip to Nashville with Patty O’Mallely Brunger, Cathie Grier Kelly, Carol Brewer Evans, Ellen Harrison Saunders and Pam Myre Turner. I look forward to seeing everyone next May! Cece Clark Melesco: I have spent a lot of my time especially in last few years caring for my mother and more recently my 98-year-old mother-in-law. They are both in assisted living, but I go for several hours a day. We spend the majority of our time at Smith Mt. Lake which is only 25 minutes from our other home. The kids all love the lake, and we usually have two or more of them

on weekends. We visit our daughter and her fiancé in Mt Pleasant, SC, as well as our son and daughter-in-law in Falls Church, VA. The other three kids live close enough to visit us regularly. Our exciting news is a second grandson is due in September, and our first is now Everyone comes with dogs so we can have up to 7 or more visit us. I’d love to see or hear from other alums who find themselves near me in southern VA. Coni Crocker Betzendahl: Richard and I are doing well. We have a new puppy, Odin, an Australian labradoodle. He is so smart.

Our eldest daughter and family will be moving down to Pennsylvania so we will have everyone close with grandchildren. I have not been painting as much as I should. I travelled to Iceland for my second trek on horses Summer 2019. It’s incredibly wonderful. My veggie garden is overwhelming me with produce! I use my tomatoes for salsa canning.

Betsy Burdge Murphy: I keep busy and young by helping to take care of my new granddaughter, Cora, who is just the most juicy and delicious and luscious baby ever born.

She was 1-year-old in July. Other than that, I am working hard and enjoying the shore life here in South Jersey.

Catherine Cranston Whitham: This has been a good year chez Whitham. Whit is enjoying retirement after 40+ years of practicing law. When we are not traveling, entertaining grandchildren or spending time at our mountain place in Cashiers, NC, I am enjoying volunteering in job search counseling with women re-entering the workforce, something I used to do regularly. I also enjoy working in my garden and swimming daily to keep me healthy.

Last winter I had the privilege of introducing Dr. Meredith Woo at The Woman’s Club in Richmond.

She spoke to a large gathering of members and guests about South Korea and the ongoing conflict with North Korea. I was proud to introduce her as current president of alma mater. This past spring, Beth Montgomery, Terry Starke Tosh and I got together in Richmond with our fourth roommate from SBC JYF ‘73/74 Melinda Wellvang (Mt Holyoke). Great fun with lots of happy memories of our time together in Paris chez Mme Riviere. I see Randy Anderson Trainor and Libby

Whitley regularly. I also bumped into Jody Anderson Wharton and Kathleen Ryan during Historic Garden Week in Richmond and had an impromptu catch up. SBC remains a sustaining constant in my life, for which I am grateful. (On a side note, Catherine reminded me: Cogs, remember the days of cramming life onto a postcard for the class Corresponding Secretary to decipher?) My have we come a long way!!

Beverly Crispin Heffernan: Three years ago I started competing in mounted archery. It is way fun! Attached is a photo of me in a competition in Alaska. I also retired 3 years ago, and don’t know how I ever had time to go to the office. Last year Jim and I traveled Europe and China, but this year we stayed closer to home. We did go to Scotland in September for a fun time with Nancy Haight and Cynde Manning Chatham. Among other things we’re going to spend a few days hiking Hadrian’s Wall. In my spare time, I am doing lots of volunteer work (board member of Back Country Horsemen of Utah, and Les Amis du Vin Utah, among other things) and otherwise I spend as much time as possible playing with my 3 horses.

Planning to make our 45th reunion next year! (Secretary’s Note: Hey Bev, check again, I did get your notes in Fall 2018 magazine! The SBC staff is very cooperative! See you in May 2020!)

Chris Hoefer Myers: I continue to enjoy fulltime fundraising for the University of South Carolina. Gardening has been a lifelong passion.

My garden was recently featured in the Columbia Green Tour of Gardens. While not working or gardening, I am cross country skiing, river rafting and hiking with family in Bend, Oregon. Having 5 grandchildren make for fun!

Thanksgiving 2019, the whole family will be on South Andros Island in the Bahamas for some spear fishing and scuba diving.

Mary Dubuque Desloge: I am happily divorced and 2 of my 3 sons have darling daughters. My third son was married in Richmond, VA, in October 2019. I am thrilled!

Cathie Greer Kelly: I had a wonderful mini reunion in Nashville in spring 2019 with Ellen Harrison Saunders, Betsy Brooks Jones, Carol Brewer Evans, Patty O’Malley Brunger and Pam Myers ‘74. Nashville is a fun city. We had a great time

enjoying the sites as well as catching up and reminiscing our SBC days.

My family is fine. I continue to work as a teaching assistant in Kindergarten at St. Martin’s Episcopal School in Atlanta. I enjoy the children, and I also like getting out of the house to do something purposeful. Our younger son Stuart lives with his family in Atlanta, and we enjoy being grandparents to their two young children. Thomas lives and works in Charlotte and seems settled there.

Bill continues to work in banking, and he surprised me with a great trip to Mackinac Island in summer 2019.

Lisa Hall Isbell: I continue to live in Fairfax, and to work as a senior conservator at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.

Linda Lucas Steele: 2019 has been crazy and monumental for us.

Our first grandchild came 5 weeks early, on tax day before Notre Dame burned. While grandson Hampton was born at UVA, Roger and I were at Duke where Roger was undergoing a complex bone marrow transplant. The three-month journey in Durham was long and complicated, which we made adventurous with books (thanks to my Sweet Briar sisters), friends and sports. The highlight was watching our beloved Cavaliers win two national championships. I anticipate much travel in 2020: Spain where daughter Molly and beau Callum live in Valladoid; Richmond, VA, where our son Austen lives and for the Hopper exhibit at the VMFA; Lexington, KY, for the elegant Keeneland Races with Ashley Randle Averell; PLUS seeing you all at our 45th reunion in May! Margaret McFaddin: I am working as a housing and community development consultant from my home office in Columbia, SC. I have seen Jody Anderson Wharton and Heather MacLeod Gale a couple of times this past year on trips to DC and to Pawleys Island, SC. I had fun trip with Jody and Kathleen Ryan in spring to Historic Garden Week in Virginia. We toured homes and gardens in Gloucester and Richmond.

I even learned some history at battlefield sites in Yorktown and Cold Harbor near Richmond.

Denise Lynn Montgomery: I wound up retiring a year earlier than I expected due to an unexpected hospital stay in late April 2017. I appeared to be having a heart at-

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Bev Crispin Heffernan ’75 competing in Alaska

Nashville mini-reunion for ’75ers! L to r: Patty Brunger, Cathie Kelly, Betsy Jones, Carol Evans, Ellen Saunders and Pam Turner

tack which caused me to cancel a long-planned trip to New Mexico.

However, after 5 days of tests, it turned out I hadn’t had a heart attack. It was stress that had made it appear like one. So, I immediately decided if my job was doing that to me, I was only going to stay till June 2018, when I would finish my contract and be able to apply for Medicare. So, I began clearing out and packing up my house in preparation for a move to Staunton, VA, where I was lucky enough to close on a house in January 2018. I filed for social security and Medicare in the spring, got my financial accounts consolidated under one account and moved a few days after my birthday in August 2018. I’m very happy here and highly recommend it as an ideal place to retire, especially if you want to return to Virginia. The arts have a very strong and vibrant presence in this town, and history buffs are well served by the historical societies, the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, and the Frontier Culture Museum. And if you’re a gourmet, it has excellent restaurants, breweries and wine bars.

In the last couple of years, I have managed to take a wonderful road trip to Woodstock and Stowe, VT, in the Fall of 2017; a trip to Portugal in March 2019; 2 trips to New York in spring 2019 which included seeing three Broadway plays and the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum; and a trip to Sweet Briar in May 2019 for Bill Smart’s Memorial Service at which I delivered one of the eulogies. I shared memories along with Wendy White ‘74 and F Caperton Morton ‘84.

Celia Robertson Queen: We have been babysitting for a wild

grandchild! I haven’t sent any news for many years. Our Mothers have been the focus of our lives lately. My mother, Mary Barrett Robertson ‘48, died followed by the death of Mike’s mother at the age of 93. The good news is that we’ve been traveling to Nova Scotia, Glacier National Park, NYC and other historic cities in the Northeast. We own a home in the mountains of western NC and spent an evening in Cashiers in late July with President Meredith Woo. News from SBC is amazing.

Ann South Malick: We are trying to stay dry here in Pittsburgh.

There has been a lot of flooding in our town. I am enjoying my Social Security and Medicare although the shoulder replacement was horrific.

I am back to swimming, gardening and fiber arts. Mark and I are hopeful that Kacer (27) and Mary Frances (28) will settle down and provide a grandchild or two...we aren’t holding our breath. Looking forward to seeing everyone at 45! Gulp!

Terry Starke Tosh: I see Louisa Dixon and Sarah Dowdey regularly, nowadays mostly in Staunton, where Louisa is keeping her 101-year old mother busy. The 3 of us were all in Paris for Junior year together, and speaking of Paris: I roomed with Catherine Cranston Whitham, Beth Montgomery and a non-SBC girl named Melinda. All 4 of us were in Richmond and had supper together this summer. Such fun! Those memories dated back to 1973-74! I am looking forward to our 45th next spring.

Nan Stuart: It is amazing at our age how time flies and gets away from us! I am as busy as I have ever been even though I have cut back on a few things. I still run Code 3 Associates

which is a non-profit organization that responds to disasters and trains animal professionals, vets, feds, law enforcement personnel and anyone else who handles crimes against animals (neglect included). I have Kinsco which is a public safety equipment retail store, and Surgireal a company that makes synthetic body (animal) parts to help train vet students. I partner with Stewart-Haas Racing, a NASCAR team, and with RLL Racing (Bobby Rahal) which is an Indy car racing team. In my spare time, I build houses and spend time promoting “One Cure” which was founded on the principle that cancer affects all creatures. Google “W5 Animal Cancer” and you’ll get the whole story as well as see me and my dogs!! Hi to everyone! (Secretary’s Note: Whew! I’m exhausted just reading all this! Nan’s “busy life” since SBC has certainly aided, improved and even saved the lives of many. Thank you, Nan, and we all hope to see you next May at our 45th!)

Gray Thomas Payne: It has been a busy 5 years for us, weddings, babies and travel between Maine, Richmond and our new home in Nashville. My married grown children and grandchildren James (5), Helen (2) and Nell due in October are all living in Nashville. I love my new role as a GiGi. Our summers are spent in Maine, and Tom and I travel as much as we can. We celebrated our 25th anniversary in Vietnam.

For me, this phase of life is about relationships, family, friends and decluttering everything that is not important. Life is good!

Dorsey Tillett Northrup: Frank and I are plugging along, visiting family, enjoying the summer and planning to check off bucket list

Patti O’Desdy ’75 watches Linda Maggard ‘75 blow out her candles!

July 2019 lunch at The Edition in New York City. L to r: Anne Cogswell Burris, Beth Montgomery and Wendy Wise Routh

items. We are healthy and feel very fortunate these days. Our youngest child and only daughter will be getting married in Flagstaff, AZ, in September. Many Boxwood friends are coming and we are looking forward to a fun reunion there. We checked off Alaska and the Canadian Rockies in Summer 2018. Anybody want to go to Antarctica with me in January 2021? Frank won’t go. In the last 15 years, I have given up smoking, drinking and cooking! I have added art, grandchildren and 10 pounds! In the next 15 years, I plan to give up gray hair, wrinkles and memory loss!

See you ALL next May! We need to elect a new president!

Patti Tucker O’Desky: Now that Billy and I have retired, and sold our house with pool, big yard and trees, we are living the life! We’ve rented an apartment on the bay front in Newport Beach and spend the extra time we have watching the boats, paddle boarders, kayakers, fishermen, Duffy electric boats, gondolas and yachts cruise by! It’s so wonderful that we have decided to stay here another year and so. Fortunately, we were able once again to rent out our townhome in Corona Del Mar!

This year Linda Poole Maggard celebrated her birthday on our lanai.

Oh, did I mention we had a tequila tasting. It was super fun! Ole! As I am part gypsy (seriously, according to my genetic background) Billy and I are traveling a lot! Another reason we like our apartment living. We are traveling so much this year that my New Year’s Resolution is not to travel so much next year. We’ve been to Cancun; Baja California’s Magdalena Bay to see the gray whales and their babies; 5 weeks in Europe in April (Paris, Barcelona, Majorca, Amsterdam, Delft, Germany, France and Lucerne including a river boat cruise down the Rhine River); Santa Fe, NM, in August to visit our daughter; Alaska aboard the Nat Geo expedition ship Venture in September; and finishing the travels this year in November to Maui! Phew! Billy is exhausted. Of course, not me!

No weddings yet, so fortunately no grandchildren. My mom is going to be 92 in September and she is doing great! We have a great guest room with King size bed and private bathroom. Come visit! Our extra-large covered lanai is just like being in Hawaii but you don’t have to travel that far! And that’s a lot of news!

Bonnie Walton Mayberry: Jerry and I are both retired and loving it.

We now have six grandkids: Larissa (22), Thaxton (12), Ashlynn (11), Platini (10), Chadrack (8) and lastly Raelynn (2 1/2). All were adopted by my daughter, Megan and son in law, Judson. Larissa is from Brazil, and Platini and Chadrack are both from the Congo. We do a lot of babysitting and a little gardening and fishing. Every October we take a family trip to the Outer Banks. We work in our church and volunteer in the community. Life is good and we are truly blessed!

Carroll Waters Summerour: We had two great trips. All 14 of us went to Jamaica to celebrate my 65th birthday. It was great family time involving tennis, golf, sailing and swimming. Then Toby and I went on a trip down the Danube from Prague to Budapest to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary. The only problem was that Europe was experiencing a drought so we were bussed down the Danube! We enjoy our family time with our 6 grandchildren, ages 2 to 12.

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is full with 5 grandchildren, ages 10 and under! Our youngest child, Garrett, is finally getting married to the lovely Caroline Estill in Nevis, in January 2020.

Rick and I are playing some golf, (sometimes together) and have loved the US Seniors group we travel with.

I have enjoyed having Beth Montgomery in Richmond. We swim laps, play bridge and spend quality time just goofing off. Other SBC friends are seen less, but not forgotten! I am also enjoying my involvement with Stratford Hall Plantation in the Northern Neck of Virginia. I see Ginger Upchurch Collier ‘72 frequently while at Stratford Hall. It’s a wonderful place to visit, and you can stay the night if anyone is ever in the area! (Secretary’s Note: According to Ann, she thinks she lives a boring life!)

Kathy Wilson Orton: I retired from 43 years in banking at the end of December and am loving the freedom of retirement. We are spending more time at our home in Colorado — skiing this winter and hiking, biking and playing golf this summer.

We had a wonderful trip to the Baltic and Iceland in August. John is slowing down but still practicing law.

His offices are in both Houston and Aspen, Colorado, so life is good!

Wendy Wise Routh: I had a great spring, and summer is looking even better weather wise. I had literally a front row seat at the Tonys (my daughter Lexi works for them) and was lucky enough to see most of the nominees and meet some of them (thank you Lexie). I still love being in Florida during the blizzards and in the surf up north in the summer.

I saw Ann Wesley Ramsey when she and husband Rocket played in the Seniors in East Hampton in the spring. I spent a day with Anne Cogswell Burris in Charleston for Jane Perry Burden’s mother’s funeral. We got together again with Beth Montgomery for a laughter filled lunch in NYC in July when both Cogs and Beth just happened to be in town!

And I, Anne Cogswell Burris, remain your faithful scribe. Life in general is good. Lon still loves working with Wells Fargo Advisors, but, I think, most of his work is done on the golf course. I’m still at my parttime job as bookkeeper for a local boutique law firm. It’s the best job in town as I make my own hours! This allows me to play golf and bridge at

least once a week. We are so fortunate to have our 3 living children in the Charleston area. We have 4 beautiful and happy grandchildren: Thomas (6), Birdie (3), Ben (2) and Billy (1). Our daughter Carrie is expecting her second (and our #5) in October. Daughter-in-law Katie (married to Will) was diagnosed with breast cancer (HER2Positive) in March. Her challenge is tedious, but her attitude is stupendous. As a young mother of 2 toddlers, her prognosis is very good as she is receiving state-of-the-art treatment.

We are all looking forward to 2020.

I enjoyed a day in June with Wendy Wise Routh when she slipped into town for the funeral of Jane Perry Burden’s mother. Then again in July, Wendy and I got together in NYC with Beth Montgomery for a fun-filled lunch. In September, I will spend time with Ann Wesley Ramsey at my niece’s wedding at Kiawah Island, SC. While everyone is downsizing, Lon and I are building a new house. We are so excited as we will be much closer to town, a golf cart ride to the Country Club and no longer in a flood zone!! As President of the Alumnae Board for Ashley Hall School for Girls, I reference Sweet Briar and its powerful alumnae all the time, and each time people are astounded at what SBC alumnae accomplished. I continue to be thankful for my SBC experience both as a student and now an alumna. Your class notes contributions help to solidify the SBC connection. I thank each of you for your contributions and words of thanks and encouragement. It is truly my pleasure to do this. Everyone needs to mark May 29-31, 2020 for our 45th Class Reunion. I look forward to seeing all who return! (Note: Did we ever find the banner?)

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Peggy Weimer Parrish 862 Main Street Danville, VA 24541 peggyparrish@gmail.com Melanie Coyne Cody’s big news is her first grandbaby was born in mid-May to daughter Sarah Gallas and her husband Mark: Charles Henry Gallas aka Charlie (never to be known as Chuck). As of June 1 she is the immediate past president

of the Woman’s Club of Evanston.

While Melanie really enjoyed the role, it almost threw her over the edge as she is still toiling away as VP Director of Talent at Wunderman Thompson. She and her husband hope to take a trip to South Africa in the next year with a group of friends; so far their planning sessions have involved a lot of wine and not much progress.

Virginia Spangler Polley write that she is in the middle of horse show season, and is having success with my fine harness mare. Last year they were reserve world champion junior (4-year-old) fine harness mare, and are trying again. Karen and husband David are working on our business of importing flooring, and the China tariffs are making us look at other import options, so we will be going to South Korea and Viet Nam soon, and hopefully combine some pleasure with business.

Karen Adelson Strauss now calls Park City, UT my home, and welcomes all classmates, and would love to know who else lives/vacations in UT so she can reconnect with SBC grads. Karen has two delightful grandchildren. One daughter now lives in CT, and her son lives in MN. Her second daughter also lives in Park City, and will happily direct that generation to the best places to explore/experience. Karen is grateful for good health, lots of hiking and skiing, some fun travel and a chance to take some of those classes she never took in college, like art and theater, and dance.

Karina Schless is still enjoying vacationing out in Jackson Hole, WY, anf going to Red Rock Ranch in September. She still has her 28-year-old QH “Angus” who she still trail rides, and her 3+ year old Spencer-cat who is a lovebug! Karina stays busy fence judging cross-country at Fair Hill CCI 4* in October as usual and down at Tryon as well.

Debbie Mutch Olander has some troubling news to report. She has just been through a lengthy evaluation for a kidney transplant so is feeling dejected and tired. Let’s send her some love because there’s nothing that she cannot do!

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Norris Judd Fergeson is building a house next to her current house, much smaller and easier to deal with, as it is now just Norris and the doggie. It will still function as an office/business as well, as people still seem to want art appraisals and assistance with collections management. Daughter Katie is still enjoying her work at nonPareil Institute Houston, writing code and getting ready to move on to level design.

Norris is the advisory board chair, and even though nonPareil Institute is a fledgling nonprofit organization in Houston, they have managed to attract some serious grant money to support the mission of helping prepare young adults with high functioning autism for the workplace.

Daughter Cecily is in her final year of getting her certification to teach, in St. Louis, where she will remain after graduation.

As for me, please accept my apologies for sending out the notice so late; these are the shortest class notes we’ve had, so will have to make up for it in the Spring issue! I am still teaching accounting and law at John Tyler Community College in Midlothian, VA. I just returned from six days in New Orleans visiting my youngest son Alexander and Elliott Graham Schoenig and JoElla Schneider Samp (1977) came along as well. Next month I have plans to see Margaret Milnor Mallory and Teesie Costello Howell when Margaret comes to Virginia to visit for a few days.

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Linda Uihlein writes: Happy on Little Owl Natural Farm in VA. Walked graduation (finally...) with Class of 2018. Enjoyed many visits to SBC for Sweet Weeks and lectures thanks to Dowina and Nelly Osinga Branson ‘75. See Ieke Osinga Scully ‘78 many times. They all look great! Keedie Grones Leonord’s ‘76 daughter was honored by FFA. Hoping she may sell a Jersey or two

for my farm. Any SBC’er is welcome at my farm for work, internships, gardening or simply personal R&R.

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Suzanne Stryker Ullrich 820 Waverly Road Kennett Square, PA 19348 suzullrich@aol.com Typically, I am a person who would rather be outside, but I am grateful to be inside taking care of our class notes as the temperatures outside have been a bit oppressive here in PA. But I know from experience the heat intensity of the south as well…so I won’t complain! By now I can only hope that things have cooled down and everyone is enjoying the fall!

There were weddings and babies, loss of parents and travel for many, so…we’ll get right to it.

Barbara Behrens Peck spent time this past summer between home in NC and Hartland, VT. There was just a little motivation to get all the renovations completed in time for their daughter Sarah’s wedding on Aug. 17. They were “excited to have a lovely spot to host some of the wedding celebrations.” Once the wedding was over, Barbara was looking forward to seeing any SBC friends, including nearby Lauren Place Young, and anyone else who might be traveling nearby.

Deb Davison Klein was excited to be a grandmother again! Daughter Whitney and husband Alex (living in Atlanta) welcomed their daughter Callie Lee McLean in early summer, while youngest son Peter Weidner and his wife were about to celebrate a 2nd birthday for daughter, Brooke! When Deb went to Atlanta to visit Whitney, et al, she got a chance to catch up with Anne Yauger who came by to meet Callie.

“As always, Yauger looks great and makes me laugh!” When home in CA Deb continues to sell real estate and ride horses as often as possible.

Elizabeth Perkinson (Perk) Simmons survived Hurricane Florence last September, but both the house and cottage (Topsail Beach) did take on some damage, as well as water! (30+” of rain and Cat 4 winds!) Many trees came down at the house, with “one on the house, but not in the house!” The cottage,

and some of the porch furniture were properly sand-blasted! All is well now, with time for feet up on the railing, looking out over the ocean taking priority! Perk was able to head north up to The Devon Horse Show where her niece was competing (“She ribboned in her first class!”) and was able to see Mimi Borst Quillman, Dee Hubble Dolan ’77 and Claire Dennison Griffith ’80, Suzanne Stryker Ullrich and many other SBC ladies at the reception held by Sweet Briar as they sponsored Junior Rider Events at the show Memorial Weekend. President Woo was in attendance with Mary Pope Hutson ’83, discussed the many initiatives on campus. Perk admitted that her “Southern GPS didn’t work in PA!” Luckily, Suzanne was able to talk her around the traffic trouble spots by taking back roads!

Perk was able to attend a wedding “40 years in the making” between Carolyn Burbick Owenby ’80, and Ralph Owenby (W&L)!” Tish Tyler ’80 and Perk gave a Bride’s Luncheon that Friday, and Mary Ames Booker ’82, Cari Thompson Clemens ’80 and Julia Grosvenor Sanford ’80 were also there for the weekend festivities. “Hard to believe that the W&L guys out numbered the Sweet Briar girls!” When not on the road, Perk spends time in her garden, and is selling real estate in her area, admitting that she loved learning the new technology used! She is with Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage, and gets to work with Carolyn Burbick Owenby ’80, who founded the company.

Donna Gigliotis Lee continues to be a prolific writer! Her second book of poetry, “Intersection on Neptune,” which came out this past February, was winner of Prize Americana (http://www.americanpopularculture.com/prizeamericana. htm ), with one of the poems in the book being published at Verse Daily. (http://www.versedaily.org/2019/ subscribinginthe suburbs.shtml ).

Nancy Robinson Lindberg continues to log many miles hiking around the world! Not only does she tackle some of the more challenging trails here in New England, but also in other parts of the world! She survived an Everest Base Camp trek last October (“survival being the key, lack of oxygen is really tough. Made it to a little over 17K feet. Lesson

Cassandra Smith Babbitt ’78, Lauren Place Young ’78 and a few other Vixens in Burlington for the Vermont Quilt Show

Armando and Jamie Murray Ferreria ’78 in Lisbon, May 2019

Mary Lewis ’76 and Nancy Lindberg ’78 in Sudtirol, Italy

Friends of Art in Baltimore. L to r: Mary Page Stewart ’78, Suzanne Stryker Ullrich ’78, Anne Taylor Quarles Doolittle ’78 and Barbara Behrens Peck ’78

needs children and coaching Girls on the Run/St Louis. Cathy appreciates Catherine’s help at Burr-Oak Camp where Cathy has been a counselor for 25 years. “Yikes!” Everyone was looking forward to their summer vacation in Minocqua, WI, before Cathy started another year of teaching pre-school and baby/dog sitting on weekends.

Katherine Powell Heller still gets to travel with husband John when he attends medical conferences. This past year she was able to go to the southwest (AZ, UT), where they were able to explore the Grand Canyon and other area national parks for the first time. “I can’t believe we never visited those stunning places with our children when they were young!” John has another spine conference in that area again next year so the word ‘glamping’ was tossed around, to explore the southwest some more then! There were several weddings to attend in the southeast as well. After being spoiled on a Seaborn cruise around New Zealand and Australia last year, Katherine and John signed up for another cruise but this time to the fjords of Norway this past June, spending nearly a whole month.

Katherine remarked that it was a bit cold for that time of year! Their younger daughter purchased a home in Atlanta so immediately upon returning from the cruise they hit the ground running, moving furniture across town. “With both girls living in town, our house is definitely too big for 2 people, but we have no intention of moving anytime soon. I’m converting all extra rooms into Hotel Heller, so everyone come visit!”

Ieke Osinga Scully and husband Mark are still working on “a fun and challenging project,” restoring an historic building in Simsbury, CT. “We are still talking!” Things are moving along and they are hoping to have it finished and occupied by the end of the year. While Ieke missed Reunion last year, she was hoping to get to Sweet Work Weeks this past August!

Carrie Ruda Carlsen reflected on an upcoming first anniversary in September, as well as marking her 10th with American Bankers Association. Long weekend trips revolve around Notre Dame football, as well as trips to “west TN to see my precious, lively 96-yr old aunt, and Mystic, CT, to the Wooden Boat Show

Mimi Borst Quillman ’78, Claire Dennison Griffith ’80, Suzanne Stryker Ullrich ’78, Dee Hubble Dolan ’77 and Elizabeth Perkinson Simmons ’78 at the Devon Horse Show in May

Checking out Baltimore beehives with Mary Gearheart ’78, Muffy Hamiltom Parsons ’78, Suzanne Stryker Ullrich ’78 and Mary Goodwin Gamper ’78

Paula Brown Kelley ’78, Liz Williams ’78, Michelle Youree Hostler ’78 and Bobby, Suzanne Stryker Ullrich ’78, and Carey Johnson Fleming ’78 on a trip to a dude ranch

(There really is a Mystic Pizza!). Jim flunked retirement and accepted the role of executive director for the Veteran’s Consortium in DC where he had been providing pro-bono legal services. So, the romance of first-year marriage is commuting downtown together!” Carrie also reports “there is such tranquility with a home on the water it’s hard to get motivated to travel.”

Melanie Bowen Steglich reports “Life is good in ‘Big D’ and oh, so busy!” She got to see Mary Moore Garrison (Los Angeles, CA) and husband, Michael, for a fun lunch with hubby Lee, where the 4 of them “laughed, talked, ate and had a good time!” They are well on their way

with seven grandchildren thanks to their Taiwanese kids. “I have shared before that Grandma and Grandpa Steglich may win the Guinness World Book record with the most grandkids one day!” With age, Melanie feels she has become more adventuresome! “Lee got us a kayak for my birthday — oh my — what fun!

Now I can be like Ann Thrash Jones and all her wonderful adventures! I have even been riding horses on the trails at the 7R Ranch! Drusie Hall Bishop is definitely laughing at me!”

Melanie continues to help a dear friend with her showroom at the World Trade Center in preparation for the Dallas Markets. “I love it and thank goodness it keeps me involved

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learned that I will hike at lower altitudes in the future!”) More recently, Nancy went on a wonderful trip to the Sudtirol, Italy (border between Austria and northern Italy) where she, husband Mike and hiking pal, Mary Lewis ’76, spent a hiking vacation in a ‘beautiful and remote region.’ When not hiking with Nancy, Mike continues to work at Monadnock Community Hospital, while Nancy tries to “bend his mind to retirement!” All three sons are busy – eldest, Andy, is a police officer in Newington, CT; second son, Tim is a nurse with the Red Cross in CT; while third son, Alex, is a data analyst in Greensboro, NC. Carol Baugh Webster is still running her marketing consulting business, Cassel International, but “thinking wistfully of retiring to the beach!” Husband Tim is officially retired but stays busy volunteering his gardening skills at state parks, historic site gardens and other community gardens after receiving his Master Gardener certificate! “Grandparenting is a joy and we look forward to celebrating the wedding next year of Logan, our eldest grandson, and his lovely fiancée Kara. Evan is a senior in HS playing football and basketball, so we know where we are going to be spending Friday nights in the fall! Youngest, Rylie, turns 4 in October and we are excited that she will have a new sibling in December!” So, bottom line…Can you believe that some of us are perhaps becoming GREAT grandparents soon? Wonderful! Carol had a hip replacement in March and reported that she was ready to go dancing again! “Facebook has its faults, but what a joy to keep up with old classmates Sally Ann Polson-Slocum (who I got to see when she came to Nashville on business last spring), Jane Hemenway Sullivan, Becky Dane Evans, Lu Litton Griffin and a few more.”

Carol was also able to reconnect with her former German professor, Ronald Horwege.

From St Louis Cathy Mellow Golterman writes that son Woody was continuing at Western Michigan Law School, after studying abroad and in Canada last summer, while also doing triathlons. Daughter Christen and husband Peter Grote celebrated a first anniversary and continue to work on their house near Cathy, while daughter Catherine loves her job working with special

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with the Fashion Industry. Life is definitely good!”

Toni Christian Brown and Jim were able to break away from their real estate company in Lexington, VA, for a week in BVI and mentioned “Can’t wait till next pre-Reunion party at the farm!” (Neither can so many!)

Mary Gearheart wrote in from Raquette Lake in upstate NY, “resting up between boat rides, chores and BBQs.” Son, Cobi worked at the general store for the summer before returning to Champlain College at the end of August. Mary stays busy teaching computer coding part-time in area schools and part-time eldercare, with home improvement projects filling any spare time! This past spring Mary was able to catch up with Mary Goodwin Gamper, Suzanne Stryker Ullrich and Muffy Hamilton Parsons when Muffy was on her east coast excursion! Lots of laughs and fun, and almost getting a chance to see Mary G. at work with her many beehives! We sat and talked over a delicious lunch instead!

With a daughter, and granddaughter, living in Alexandria, VA, Maggie Laurent Gordy is able to get away from the FL heat sometimes. One trip allowed Maggie and Janet Rakoczy to spend time at an area farmer’s market, and then spend many hours over coffee. “It was a wonderful way to spend a Saturday!”

Son John is a USN corpsman teaching winter and summer mountain medicine courses at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center — basically high altitude medicine which involves skiing! “Why would John and his Marine buddies climb to 14 thousand feet with 70-pound packs on their backs? Because they can! Go Navy!” Another trip north in August meant more time with granddaughter Rowan (3), and daughter Megan and her husband Alex. “Visits with Rowan are always interesting!” Driving north for this particular visit meant a slow ride south, through the Shenandoah Valley, a night in Lexington, with some time in Brevard, NC, before returning to the heat of FL. Maggie’s first year of retirement has meant “playing in the yard, enjoying not having a schedule and reading, reading, reading. Every day is Saturday!”

Katie Renaud Baldwin has had another busy year traveling back and forth to Michigan to see family and

friends, for her 45th high school reunion, as well as trips to Mexico for an Alaskan friend’s son’s wedding and to the Outer Banks to celebrate her dad’s 97 years of life. “Had a great get-together with the AK girlfriends and a trip to CA to see daughter Emily. Lots of fun times and babysitting granddaughters too! Time sure does fly when you are retired.”

From Maine Cassandra Smith Babbitt wrote that she and Lauren Place Young met in Burlington, VT, for the quick visit and to go to the VT Quilt Festival. It was a wonderful time at a B&B, dinner and a full day of seeing wonderful quilts!

(I would imagine we will be seeing some of Cassandra’s quilts there eventually!) She is still taking care of settling her mother’s estate, but was looking forward to going to Victoria, BC, to visit her granddaughters!

Lauren Place Young also remarked on the wonderful time with Cassandra – our own Quilter-extraordinaire, stating that having Cassandra at the Quilt Expo made it even more special! Their time at the B&B, the meals and shopping “were so memorable and so fun! Thanks to Cassandra for driving over 5 hours — each way!”

Liz Williams stated that she had a “wonderful SBC summer!

In June I somehow managed to convince Carey Johnson Fleming, Suzanne Stryker Ullrich, Paula Brown Kelley and Jack, as well as Michelle Youree Hostler and Bobby to spend a few days on a dude ranch! Lots of fun, great scenery, memorable trail rides and fun SBC memories!” A week after that there was a relaxing weekend of sailing on the Chesapeake Bay with Mickie Gupton McKelway and Hank. “It’s funny how the older I get, the more it means to me to spend time with these old friends (well, not OLD, just long time…)” Well said, Liz! So, that brings me to Muffy Hamilton Parsons~ What a whirlwind of a trip she took again this year! In March and April she was able to see Anne Baldwin Mann and Mary Page Stewart in FL, then spent a few days in PA with Suzanne Stryker Ullrich. What a great time having dinner with Mimi Borst Quillman and Meg Richards Wiederseim followed by lunch a couple days later with Mary Goodwin Gamper, Mary Gearhart and Suzanne. In June, while visiting

the Atlanta area for a wedding, she was able to get together with Ann Yauger, Jane Lauderdale Armstrong, Francie Root ’80 and Sue Griste Russell, who had just recently moved from Norfolk, VA. When at home, Muffy sees Cindy McKay regularly, “and she continues to make me laugh!” Muffy’s family continues to follow her niece, Kendal Gretsch, on her journey as a para-athlete who is training and competing internationally in the paratriathlon, hoping to qualify for the Tokyo 2020. Kendal medaled in PyeongChang 2018 in the Nordic biathlon and cross country. “Lastly, it is so fun being in touch with our Sisters of ’78, planning upcoming events and working with Suzanne!” You never know what will be next!

As for me, like so many others, I end up traveling to see kids and grandkids (Laurel, 3, and Leo, 2) and on work excursions with Rick, always trying to fit in visits with dear friends from SBC! This past spring, I was able to visit Baltimore when Friends of the Arts had their meeting. It was great to see those ladies in action! Catching up with Barbara Behrens Peck, Anne Taylor Quarles Doolittle and Mary Page Stewart, as well as Claire Dennison Griffith ’80, and other ladies in the group. (Mary makes some of the best crab cakes, by the way!)

With our youngest in Madison, AL we get the chance to visit many in the south as well. Stopping in Lexington, VA, to see Toni Christian Brown and Jim is always fun!

Their garden produces some of the largest asparagus I’ve ever seen! One trip included seeing Carey Johnson Fleming and David for a couple of days in Pendleton, SC. Another visit allowed time in Nashville with Drusie Hall Bishop who kept the laughter flowing through horses being shod and meeting her friends who were kind enough to include me before taking off for home. There are always lots of phone calls to friends near and far, always looking forward to the day that we can truly set some time aside to catch up in person!

Some trips overseas for work with Rick also give me great opportunities to explore, most recently a week in Athens, Greece. Poor Rick was hotel — locked at a conference, but I was free to truly experience much of the city and nearby islands — including some cooking classes, wine and olive

oil tastings! We were able to meet at the Acropolis by chance when he was there for ‘team building’ and the other visiting ladies ‘just happened’ to be there as well! Luckily, Rick and I were able to spend a few days on Santorini, with the cooler February temperatures not preventing us from hiking the rim of the caldera! And the archeology was amazing! In May we were able to travel to Cascais, Portugal. One of the many highlights of that trip was seeing Jamie Murray Ferreira. She and husband Armando took us all over Lisbon, and then to a lovely little seaport where we had some of the freshest fish and clams ever! And let’s not forget the wonderful coffee and ‘pasteis de nata’! Great fun, and also wonderful to share some interesting perspectives with ‘the locals’! Closer to home, Rick and I were recently able to see Anne Taylor Quarles Doolittle and Bob in Bethany Beach, DE, with SO many laughs with Bob’s college friends (Lehigh) and their wives. (Oh, what fun lies in store for the Class of ’78 in 2020! Yes, that’s a teaser! Stay tuned!)

So, for now, remember to stay in touch with each other and let us know how you are all doing next time! Hugs to all, Suzanne

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Anne Garrity Spees 1136 Springvale Road Great Falls VA 22066 nelson.anne@gmail.com Amy Smith: Did not make it to class reunion this year. I take care of my 94-year-old Dad and don’t like to leave him in the house alone overnight. I retired from law firm marketing about 3 years ago after moving home. I now do The Original Ghost Tour in Colonial Williamsburg. It’s a blast. Staying close to home this year after traveling with Dad the past 4 going all over Europe: Paris, Jerusalem, Greek Isles, Italy, Prague and Germany. Hope to get one more overseas river cruise in next year.

Betsy Byrne Utterback: It was a fun-filled year. Spent vacation time with Sally Ann Sells Bensur in FL and SC and at our reunion with Julie Muchmore Cooney, Louise Wright Irwin and all of you! I’ve been busy with our 4 grandchildren in NYC and PA. Our daughter and husband

CLASS NOTES for 3.5 years. Susan, our youngest is in set design and currently goes to grad school in London but worked on a movie in Iceland this summer.

Bill is COO at a Pharma company in Cambridge and I am still loving my job as a decorator (interior residential). I also am loving golf, and still play a lot of tennis.

Katie Ewald Brooks: Vermont life has been good to me. I retired from Vermont Wood Pellet Co., but serve on my hospital board, The Green Mountain Club board (caretakers of the Long Trail for the Manchester section, and lead hikes year round) you can also find me on Bromley Mountain where I am on the Ski Patrol. I advocate for SBC at college fairs in VT, NY and MA. I love telling juniors about the affordable tuition and the experience that awaits them at Sweet Briar. I see Graham Maxwell Russell in Palm Beach occasionally; and Joanie Dearborn Choremi, Kelly McBride Hudson and Holly Harrison Crosby in NYC. Anyone want to join us for an annual lunch at the Colony Club?

Susan Andrews Cruess: It was great seeing everyone at reunion! My husband Leigh and I are just wrapping up 4 weeks in Deep River, Ontario, at my in-laws’ cottage on the Ottawa River. The boys couldn’t get out here this year but the dogs had a great time playing Frisbee in the river! We hosted a mini 40th reunion with three of Leigh’s buddies from Queens University and their spouses at the cottage and everyone instantly reconnected after many years — reminded me of our SBC Reunion!

Jim (33) is married and living in Toronto, working as an assistant crown prosecutor while his wife Kate is a corporate lawyer, specializing in anti-trust law. Andrew (30) lives 15 minutes away in Calgary and works as an IT consultant focusing on data analytics. I’m still very active with the Junior League of Calgary.

Karen Jaffa McGoldrick: It was great to see SBC thriving at reunion.

News from Georgia is that our own Teresa Tomlinson is running for U.S. Senate. Teresa more than proved herself in the battle to save SBC. After reunion Lawrence and I travelled to Charlottesville to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. I hope to finish a work-in-progress novel that features a bit of history of the area as well, so we visited some historical

sites. Lawrence retired from his law practice. We sold our beloved horse farm in Alpharetta, GA. We moved to Canton, GA, and back up to a pond where Lawrence often canoes.

Prudence Saunders Pitcock and I do stay in touch although I don’t see her as often as I wish. Her husband also has retired, and the two of them have done a lot of camping and hiking trips.

Piper Allan Severns: I am starting my second year as a kindergarten teacher at a new charter school here in Orlando. I enjoyed my eight years of teaching first graders, but love kindergarten. My daughter begins her “fresher” year at “Uni” at the University of St Andrews in Scotland in September. My husband Keith and I will be taking her over a week early so we can all play tourist together and do some power shopping for her before orientation begins. We are excited about her big adventure, but know we will miss her desperately!

The good news is, if you have a 75 lb.

Labrador retriever, you really aren’t an empty nester. LOL! Saralee Cowles Boteler: Celebrating 30 years of marriage to George UVA ’75. New member of the family: a beautiful 15 year-old Arabian gelding. Had dinner with Becky Truelove Symons over the winter, as Becky passed through Alexandria while moving her daughter to NYC. Cheri Harris Lofland: Thanks in large part to my Sweet Briar Junior Year in France, I’ve lived and worked in Europe since 1990, the last 25 years in London. I still get back to Atlanta to see family but am happy in this fascinating city. I’m close to Kensington Palace, regularly serve as a tour guide and visitors are welcome!

Robin Behm: Life is very good in Palm Springs. Wendy and I are blessed with a growing pod of family either living here in Southern CA or visiting from all over. My brother is now in San Diego, and it is so wonderful to have him nearby. Some SBC alum-fun to share: We just returned from an amazing Caribbean trip to beautiful Bequia in the Grenadines where we visited our besties, Kevin and Drasi Carr ‘78. Three years ago, Drasi and Kevin moved to the island and proceeded to grow their amazing restaurant into Bequia’s finest for gathering, cocktails and delicious sea-side dining. What

a gift to be together, celebrate and share in the joy of all their favorite places and wonderful new friends —a phenomenal good time!

Ashley Wilson Brook: Reunion 2019, our fortieth, was beyond fabulous. We felt the years melt away, enjoyed our time together and loved every minute! I say, we, because it was relaxing, energizing and rein-

L to r: Janel Hughes Wiles ’80, Sally Gray Lovejoy ’80 and Kim Wood Fuller ’80, in the Algarve, Portugal, in October 2018

Louise Starling Wiles, granddaughter of Janel Hughes Wiles ’80

Ralph Ownby (groom), Carolyn Birbick Ownby ’80 (bride), Elizabeth Perkins Simmons ’78 (behind Ralph), Tish Longest Tyler ’80, Cari Thompson Clemens ’80, Mary Ames Booker ’81 and Sandy Meade Turturro ’82

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are in LA which means many West Coast trips as well! We moved to Bluffton, SC, last year where I continue to work as a residential interior decorator. Golf, kayaking, tennis, painting, traveling and working fill the days!

Beth Bogden Tetrault: I saw Amy Smith in Williamsburg in June and Aimee Kass at Sweet Work Weeks last August. I was there with my sister Debbie Bogdan Hill ‘73. I recommend it; always great to come back home.

Judy Williams Carpenter: Dean and I love living in the house we renovated, a stone’s throw from St. Catherine’s, where I still work.

Dean’s commute is even shorter; he just walks across the breezeway to his studio. My daughter Melinda and her husband Eric live in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond. Son Hunter, his wife Jillian and my grandson Braxton (who will be 1 in Oct), live in Atlanta. That’s way too far away for me but will be fun to have everybody with us in Maine, along with 5 dogs!

Leslie Forbert Miller: Have a great little house in Saratoga Springs — 5 miles to my parents, 3 miles to my sister and her kids, half a mile from work and, as always: near horses! A grandmother twice now thanks to my daughter Victoria and her great husband. They live in DC and I can visit Taylor’s grave at Arlington when I visit. You just don’t get over a blow like that but I’m living the good life as best as possible.

Aimee Kass: It’s been a good year for me professionally. My client was looking at 15 years in prison and I got the charges dismissed. Another client was accused of 15 forms of abuse in a nursing home and I proved there was no abuse. Spent a very productive few days at Sweet Work Weeks in August. I still teach elementary school and work pro bono independently as an attorney.

Lauren McMannis Huyett: Bill and I still live in Concord, MA, and in the summer are mostly on Cape Cod. We have three of the 5 kids near us, most significantly our little granddaughter Charlotte, thanks to Megan and Phil! Phil is an ENT surgeon at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. Peter and his girlfriend Katie are also in Boston. Our oldest, Kate in is Manhattan and is director of marketing at Bombas Socks. Chip has been here in Boston with Wayfair

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CLASS NOTES vigorating. This reunion was special.

Loved seeing everyone and missed those who were not with us! The campus looks wonderful and is in capable hands with Meredith Woo at the helm.

Cindi Little Townsend: It was great seeing all the ‘79ers at our 40th Reunion! Tom and I love life on the York River and are extremely thrilled that our daughter and son in law, who live close to us, are expecting their first child (a baby girl) in January 2020. Our son and his wife moved from Richmond to Phoenix in 2018 so trips to AZ are always on the calendar. We continue to enjoy various get-togethers with SBC roommate, Susan Anthony Lineberry and husband Neal.

And as for me, Anne Garrity Spees, I love seeing so many of us at reunion! I retired last year and have loved it. I do as much traveling as possible, most recently a Danube cruise. My eldest son Justin works in Bethesda, MD, at a non-profit serving the areas homeless, middle son Jonathan is a teacher at the Nysmith School and my daughter Emily lives in Edinburgh and works for the NHS as a dietician. She recently became engaged so will be busy planning her upcoming wedding in Scotland!

Nancy White asked me to let everyone know that Jeanette Rowe Cadwallader is administering our new class Facebook page, so log on see the latest. Thanks everyone for your news!

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Mary Callahan Arnold writes that Washington and Lee hubby, Chip, is retired. Mary is playing golf and learning to play Bridge. Her sister, Annie Callahan Keech ’81, has a 9-month-old grandson “who is adorable and a fun addition to our family!”

When Florence Rowe Barnick picked up her child from college in VT last summer, she drove home not with a son but with a daughter. Scott is becoming Skye. Their love is immeasurable. She is brave, kind, beautiful and happy. There

will be challenges for Skye and for their family she writes. Florence and her family look forward to our class’ love and support more than ever. And Florence is sorry that this change didn’t come about sooner so she could have attended Sweet Briar College!

Life is good writes Lind Robinson Bussey. They were just blessed with their 6th grandchild (5 boys and 1 girl). Lind says that she hopes this decade includes lots of visits with Sweet Briar classmates!

Kim Wood Fuller says that she is working part–time as a travel agent for Journey House. She spent a week in Portugal last October with Sally Gray Lovejoy and Janel Hughes Wiles. They had a great time together…beautiful country, fantastic food…lots of laughs and plenty of wine!

Lisa Sturkie Greenberg and husband downsized and moved to a townhome in Inman Park in Atlanta.

They are expecting their first grandchild in September and are looking forward to a biking trip from Prague to Krakow with Laurie Newman Tuchel and her husband Chas this summer.

Lisa Heisterkamp Davis is hoping that Hampshire College (where she graduated from) can take the lessons learned from Saving Sweet Briar and run with them. She writes that she had a delightful reunion with Vickey Clarendon Richter at Parc in Philadelphia when she was in Philly with the psychoanalysts.

Looking forward to our 40th reunion!!

Jeannine Davis Harris lives in Princeton, NJ, and works as an outside sales rep for Lucas Alexander based out of the Philadelphia Design Center, selling high end fabrics and furniture. Also she is a NJ Chapter Leader for GRITS: Girls Really into Shooting! Jeannine often sees Lillian Sinks Sweeney in Philadelphia. The 60th birthday was celebrated in St. Thomas with Lillian Sweeney, Barbara Wesley Bagbey, Lisa Schneider Thornton. True Dow-Datillo, Georgia Schley-Ritchie, Ginny Faris Hoffman, Catherine Flaherty and Carol (last name). Jeannine recently saw Jill Steenhuis at an art show in NJ. Ginny Faris Hoffman writes that a few of our classmates descended on Louisville last year to see Liz Swearingen-Edens. They visited

Sandra Padilla ’80 and Evangeline Taylor ’00 connect at Evangeline’s release event for the U.S. Embassy-sponsored book about Dennis Martinez, the Nicaraguan perfect game pitcher.

Julia Grosvenor Sanford ’80, Tish Longest Tyler ’80, Carolyn Birbick Ownby ’80 (bride), Cari Thompson Clemens ’80, Elizabeth Perkins Simmons ’78 and Mary Ames Booker ’82

bourbon distilleries to get their “passports” stamped for a Louisville bourbon trail t shirt. Ginny also writes that she is going to the mountains in Highland to hike around with Georgia Schley-Ritchie this summer. Get together with your classmates when possible. Ginny had word earlier this year that her roommate of Senior Year, Cynthia Stanford ‘82 had passed away. I will miss her voice and her easy laugh…I will miss her.

Catherine “Cackie” Mills Houlahan writes that son Connor is settled in Seattle. Daughter, Shelby graduated from Virginia Tech in business management and has returned to Japan this summer.

Daughter, Rose graduated from High School in Yokosuka, Japan, and is now working there. I was happy to be there for Rose’s graduation in June, my first time to Asia.

During this “empty nest” year, I plan

to sell my home and downsize, in any location.

Michele Baruch Jeffery tells us that life is good and she and husband Jim are busy. She is working at Lenox Hill Hospital. They summer in CT and her Mom turns 91 this year.

Charlie (33) is a bartender downtown. He and Sarah are off to Paris.

Daughter Jane got her master’s from Hopkins then spent a year working at Mass General in Boston. She is heading to Duke Medical School at the end of July. Michele is looking forward to going to Patagonia with Jim next winter.

Phyllis Watt Jordan is still in Washington D. C. working to Georgetown University. Her think tank, FutureEd, recently hosted an event on the future of teaching worldwide. Husband Brian is a maritime lawyer who takes the best business trips. This year, Phyllis

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Laurie Newman Tuchel has had a busy year finishing art school and conenecting with Tinsley Place Lockhart and Silky Hart Michero.

Lisa Sturkie Greenberg and husband Steve joined Laurie and husband Chas for a 2-week cycling trip from Prague to Krakow. A reunion with Leslie Ludwick Bires, Martha Fruehauf, Lisa Sturkie Greenberg was at Lisa’s lake house in Alabama.

Laurie’s paintings have been included in several exhibitions in the past year.

Susan Gentry Taylor writes that she will be married to Patrick Taylor for 41 years this September. She has been with British Airways for nearly 30 years. She hopes to get to reunion!

Toni Santangelo Archibald celebrated 15 years of working at her high school Alma mater, School of the Holy Child in Rye, NY. She spent an amazing ten days in South Africa in June which included spear fishing in 400-year-old fishing traps, game drives, seeing the penguins at Boulders Beach, and exploring Cape Town, Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned for 17 years, and the Cape of Good Hope. She enjoyed visits this year from my SBC roommates Jill Steenhuis and Hollis Volk to New York and says, “I look forward to Reunion in May and catching up with the Class of ‘80.”

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M. Claire McDonnell Purnell Five Park Place, Apt. 408 Annapolis, MD 21401 cpgd@verizon.net Carol Hays Hunley is living in Charlotte, NC, and, after having been “downsized,” is enjoying a trial retirement with lots of time spent in the pool, traveling and with family.

Carol writes “Our daughter, Chrissy, and her husband (and our grand-dog and grand-horse) relocated to Charlotte in Feb. and we have enjoyed helping them get settled and love seeing them often. Travels have included visiting friends and family as well as a few fun trips to Santa Monica, CA; Asheville, NC; and London.

The best of all was a reunion trip to the mountains of PA to enjoy a long weekend with Vickie Archer and

Vickie Archer ’81 and Tad Imbrie, Carol Hays Hunley ’81 and Tom, and Maggie McCarthy Stoeffel ’81 and Dave recreate a 1983 photo in 2019.

husband Tad and Maggie McCarthy Stoeffel and husband Dave for a combined celebration of our milestone birthdays! The trial ends soon, as I begin a new consulting role — it was fun while it lasted.”

Kearsley Rand writes: Bad news: getting divorced. Good news: had an amazing surprise 60th birthday hosted by friends and family (Claire McDonnell Purnell was one of the hostesses). Lots of friends in attendance, old and new, including Lori Faust Williams. More good news: my women’s charity group, The Daughters of the British Empire, is taking off. Only 2 years old and we have had a bunch of fundraisers, the most recent a tea/ fashion show hosted by Monte Durham of Say Yes to the Dress.

Felicia Nelson Baker sent her news from Sicily where she is travelling with Bert and their children.

Their son, Austin, graduated from the University of Texas and works in Austin, TX, as an engineer for Applied Materials. Dahlgren, their middle daughter, graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and has launched a business in floral design here in Houston. Their youngest daughter, Catherine, will be a senior at Texas A&M this fall.

Felicia says: “Bert and I still live in Houston, TX. I get to see Jane Losse Momberger who lives in Austin every few months, and I enjoyed a visit with Martha Freeman Brousse last year. I am always happy to see Sweet Briar friends!”

DJ Stanhope has been running

the Inland Empire Bob Hope USO in Southern California for the past two years. “When I arrived in 2017 I had one center at Ontario Airport, added a second in 2018 at March Air Reserve Base, and will stand up a third at Fort Irwin before the end of the year. It’s been a very busy couple of years and I am so looking forward to taking some time off to visit family in Maine and travel to England with friends. Hugs to all my classmates!”

Tiffin Hartman Fox works with many volunteers and non-profit organizations and travels with husband Trent visiting children and grandchildren. They travelled to Jordan visiting Petra, taking mud baths in the Dead Sea and spending the night in the Arabian Desert at Wadi Rum. In January, she took a class on the art of making French macarons.

Tiffin writes: “In April I spent Easter week in NYC with my son, Alexander, his wife and their two children, Abbey and Daniel. My visit was a stop-over on my way to a conference in Dallas where I was able to spend a couple days afterwards with my niece, Jessie, who was taking a year abroad at UT Austin from the University of Glasgow. Our biggest news however is the arrival of our fourth grandson, Samuel Jonathan Fox.” Stirling Cassidy Smith: Our son Alec married a darling girl, Claire McNulty Chewning, in Georgetown, SC, this June. They are living in Beaufort, SC. Beth Newberry Phillips ‘80 and family came in from Texas. Have seen Elizabeth Webster Cotter from Columbia, SC, as

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tagged along with him to London and Hawaii. In May, her daughter, Miranda, graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a degree in film and screen writing. Son Jake is a sophomore at the University of Vermont. He spent his summer in Thailand studying Buddhism. Phyllis got together with Lisa Ward Connors, Emily Quinn McDermott, Cindy Stover Motka and Ann Connolly Simpson on the Eastern Shore in July.

Our fearless leader, Amy Campbell Lamphere writes that she connected with some University of Virginia pals during the Final Four basketball tournament in Minneapolis. They got a new puppy in April, Max the Brittany. Amy has taken trips to New Orleans, Jackson Hole and Lincoln, NE, where they celebrated her mother’s 90th birthday during a July 4th family reunion.

Can’t WAIT to see you ALL at OUR reunion next June.

Annie Ivey Leonard writes that she was surprised by a recurrence of breast cancer in April after a 10-year remission. She is currently scheduled for chemo infusions every 3 weeks through June 2020 and is thankfully tolerating treatment with no side effects. The outpouring of love, support and prayers from the Class ’80 has been tremendous, empowering and humbling. See you at our 2020 reunion!

To celebrate her 60th birthday last October, Sally Lovejoy rented a Villa in Portugal. Kim Wood Fuller and Janel Hughes Wiles came to visit.

Silky Hart Michero writes that she entered four juried art competitions this past Spring. She and Laurie Newman Tuchel spent a week in New Mexico exploring the area with our paintbrushes. One of our stops was Santa Fe where we had a great visit with Megan Coffield Lyon.

Judi Wright Noel is enjoying retirement and is helping out at flower shop she used to own. She tells us that her husband at 78 is looking after the farm.

Sandra Rappaccioli Padilla writes that son Felipe graduated from TCU and is working in Dallas at ISNetwork. She has seen Francie Root in Atlanta and Evangeline Taylor Sweet Briar 2000 works at the embassy in Nicaragua. Evangeline has an 18-year-old son and we

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they also have a Place at DeBordieu as does Lou Shore Winship ‘82.

In Jacksonville, I always see Julie Brooke Davis. In NYC, I also see Camille Taylor McDuffie and Warren Moore Miller ‘72.

Allison Roberts Greene: May 1 was our 25th anniversary and Carson’s Birthday. We celebrated with a blessing of our marriage and a party with family and friends. Jane Terry, Theresa Blane Lange and Consuelo Michelle Martinez Quattrocchi ‘82 were in attendance. The following week, Carson and I celebrated the occasion on a Viking cruise of the Baltic Sea. In July, we took a family

trip to Park City, UT. It was a fun time! We have enjoyed a couple of trips to Hayward, WI, for relaxation and fishing. I hope that everyone in our class turning 60 enjoys their Diamond Jubilee!

Lelee Frank Hazard spent June in Monteagle, TN, opening their summer cottage and enjoying the Chautauqua program. Their next stop was a family trip to John’s family’s cottage on Cape Ann in Rockport, MA. Lelee writes: “I will be at SBC for Sweet Work Weeks the week of Aug. 10. I look forward to seeing friends old and new. Always a great experience.”

Bobin Bryant Williams’ son, Rowdy, graduated from SCAD with a BFA in visual effects and is spending the summer traveling Europe.

Daughter, Ginx, is a rising junior at the University of South Carolina, a Kappa Delta and loving SEC football! Bobin says: “We’re in the middle of building a house!”

Vickie Archer wrote that “good times, great friends and hilarity rolled again” when Maggie McCarthy Stoeffel and Dave invited Carol Hays Hunley and Tom, and Vickie and her husband, Tad Imbrie, for a get together in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania. Although Vickie can’t remember the last time they were together, Tad brought photo evidence of the 6 of them at Carol’s house in 1984 which they then recreated and posted on Facebook. Almost immediately afterwards, daughter Annie Imbrie ’14 writes to her dad “you’re famous now lol.” Vickie writes that she “can’t remember the last time Imbrie parents impressed any Imbrie kids. Imbrie kids, however, continue to impress Imbrie parents: Annie is finishing University of Dublin’s international business graduate program, son James is heading off to South Korea to teach, and son Addison is off to join the military as a pilot.”

Pam Wood Valle has been busy keeping up with her growing college admissions consulting business, Valle Educational Consulting. She and husband, John, spend a lot of time with their assorted kid-couples. Pam says that she “celebrated a 60th birthday which was thankfully kept lowkey this year. The summer has been spent re-landscaping the acre property we purchased last spring. We are totally enjoying living out in the country again surrounded by protected wetlands, cornfields and trees.

Nature abounds! Looking forward to several campus visits out east this fall, which will include a long overdue visit to SBC.” Sharon Resener Miller: I’m still loving beach life in New Smyrna Beach. It makes my CPA working world so much easier when I know a beach walk is just a few steps away!

Susan Clay Russell and Fred are still living in Richmond. She celebrated her 60th birthday with friends, including Barrie Jeffrey McDowell. Susan’s oldest daughter, Pricey, is engaged to be married in

June 2020. Susan writes: “I will continue my involvement with JDRF and plan to do another Ride for A Cure in October. My daughter Libby and a friend will do the ride with me.

I went to Alaska with my husband and mother-in-law in June. The natural beauty in Alaska is amazing. We saw bears, eagles, a humpback whale, icebergs and glaciers.”

Cammie Bethea Mills visited Susan Clay Russell at the beach where they had fun catching up.

Cammie is a hospitalist in Conway, SC. Her son, Luke, is starting med school at the University of South Carolina this fall. The same school that Cammie and her husband, Billy, attended.

Sigrid Carlen Veasey writes: that she “just celebrated my 35th with Doug. Boys are all great. One more year or college for Wylie and Campbell is applying to med schools and Carlen is developing commercial real estate in Seattle. I’m at Penn, loving my research and patients.”

Ellen Hagan Brown and her husband Whitney have loved living in Roanoke for the past 26 years, after stints in Chicago and Memphis. Their sons have left the nest.

“Whitney III, is an Army helicopter pilot stationed at Ft. Bragg; Hugh is a new attorney who is headed to Charlotte. Always look forward to seeing Nina Brown MacDonald and her husband Leo when visiting our boys in NC.” Ellen also enjoys seeing Daughty Hagan Godfrey when she comes to town and other SBC friends when their paths cross.

Quinne Fokes just completed her master’s in Human Computer Interaction in May 2019 and has been doing user experience research projects. She is currently seeking an ongoing role. Quinne had a showing of artwork in July, in Fairfax, CA. Barbara Bush Cooper is very busy this summer as Sophie decided to transfer to Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. She is interested in business and excited to pursue their entrepreneurial business major.

Barbara and Doug will drop her off and spend the week exploring Block Island over Labor Day. Barbara says that being a transfer parent is much easier. She enjoys getting to see Tania Voss Ryan and her husband Stephen more frequently over dinner in Old Town Alexandria.

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Molly Davis Garone and her husband, John, turned the big 6-0 in April on the very same day and they are taking a trip to the Amalfi Coast and Naples in October to celebrate. John is still with Wells Fargo running the Northeast private banking division. Molly is still busy with her art — mainly pastel, and she posts photos of her paintings on Instagram. Her 2-year-old lab, and playing plenty of golf keeps her hopping! She hopes all her classmates are happy and healthy entering their 6th decade!

Harriet Harrison Leavell’s 31-year-old son, Walton, married a wonderful young lady from Italy, Giulia Avoltini. He is a software consultant and they live in Houston so they see each other often. Harriet’s daughter, Brooks (26), is in commercial real estate in Atlanta and also coaches women’s club lacrosse at her alma mater, the University of Georgia.

Sarah Martin Herguner spent 5 days with Debra Kertzman in NYC this July and attended “Fiddler on the Roof ” in Yiddish with her son Will on the night of the blackout.

Mary Stuart Bolling Smith and Sarah share a meal occasionally; Sarah is amazed with her work as an EL Educator at a county public school.

Her children Lale and Levent are adults now; Lale works at Davenport & Company in Richmond and Levent practices law at Jones Day in Washington, D.C. Sarah says: “I am grateful they live nearby and continue with my work at St. Catherine’s School, and caring for our precious pets Rosa Velvet, Beau Bidik, Chincha and Siyaz (three pups and a kitty). All the best to the Class of 1981.”

Sharon McGrath Gardner moved from Long Island to Frenchtown, NJ, where she and Buddy live on a small horse farm. Sharon writes: “I have switched my attention from showing horses to showing Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs and am planning for a litter of pups later this fall. I have 3 beautiful grandchildren who I can’t get enough of! Bud and I will be married 37 years in a couple weeks and several times a year Joy Gillio Biaocco and I get together to make a little trouble.”

Claire McDonnell Purnell: John

Carol Searles Bohrer ’82 with daughter Emily visiting Valerie Youree ’82 in Ecuador

and I are still living in Annapolis, MD. Our daughter Mary and her husband, Paul, live in Telluride, CO. Mary teaches 9th and 10th grade English and history. Our daughter, Liz, graduated from Fordham University last May and is living in NYC. I am sending these notes from Long Lake, NY, in the heart of the Adirondacks. I am hoping to see Liz Seacord while we are here. I am signing off for now as we are headed off the grid. Thanks for sending your news.

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Patti Snodgrass Borda Mullins 15 Tenth Avenue Brunswick, Md. 21716 pattibmullins@gmail.com Patti Snodgrass Borda Mullins: I have begun my third year as communications manager/public information coordinator for the city of Frederick, MD. I keep busy with public relations, social media, video production, graphic design, script and speech writing. While I coordinate communications, retired husband Earl continues to sail. In May, he checked off a bucket-list item: a transatlantic voyage. He sailed with a group of 10 on Rubicon 3 Sailing’s 60-foot Starling. They departed St. Lucia and arrived in Portsmouth, UK, about 6 weeks later. WhatsApp kept us from being completely without communication. Daughter Virginia is starting at the University of Maryland this fall to pursue everything college, and to study biology/

Alice Dixon ’82 with the daughter of Carol Searles Bohrer ’82, Emily, at her Hawaii Pacific University graduation. Far right: Price Bohrer (W&L ’14)

zoology. Grateful for those who responded, I regret you will read only a few updates here. Responses this time were slim to none. If anyone knows if there is a disconnect, let’s get it fixed.

Polk Green: I’m good. Busy with work and attending grad school in the fall at Colorado State University.

Working on a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. Wish me luck!

Libby Lee Gantt Castles: Guy and I celebrated the graduation of our triplets from college back in May of this year. The boys graduated from Clemson, and our daughter from the University of South Carolina. We are proud to now have 6 college graduates, 2 of whom have their master’s degrees! Our oldest daughter is working as a physician assistant in Birmingham, AL, while her husband is training to be an endodontist. Our

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ed 14 months as a night nurse in oncology/hematology in May. She is taking a break and is currently in Fairbanks, AK. She writes: “My husband and I sold our home and are in an RV for now. Homeless and unemployed! We’ve driven across the country, through Canada and the Yukon Territory, completing the Alaska Highway. Hoping the ferry strike is over before our sailing to Washington on Sept. 2.

If not, we will have to backtrack on the Alaska Highway. My son, Jeff, is chairman of the Democratic Party in Buncombe County, NC, and my son Tom is an interpretive guide at Biltmore House. We plan to settle near them when this adventure is over. Then I plan to work again as a hospice nurse.”

May Carter Barger, Allison Roberts Greene, Nan Dabbs Loftin and Jane Terry have just returned from a glorious week in Portugal!

They visited Lisbon, Porto and relaxed at a perfect spa in the Douro Valley. May says “We enjoyed a glass of port in the evenings while listening to fado, toured amazing cathedrals and villages, had lunch on a private boat as we cruised the Douro River and we ate the best food ever!”

Ansley McKenzie Browning and husband, William, live in Winston-Salem, NC. They just welcomed their second grandchild.

Daughter, Liz, and son-in- law Nick, granddaughter Ellison (2) is joined

by Harold Topper White. They live in Charleston, SC. Liz Seacord is still living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She completed an amazing opportunity to test her astrological journalistic abilities as a ghostwriter for her friend’s column at the New York Daily News. She is now spending time renovating their weekend house in Woodstock, NY, and managing her family’s rustic woodland cabin in the Adirondack Mountains where she’ll hopefully connect with Claire McDonnell Purnell. Liz also keeps in touch with Lelee Frank Hazard and Stephanie Stitt Fitzpatrick. Liz is VERY proud of her daughter Iris, a recent Cum Laude graduate from UCLA with a BA in philosophy.

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Wendy Chapin Albert ’83 and her husband, Tolly, daughters Annie and Eleanor

Melissa Byrne Partington ’83 and her husband, Robert, celebrated their 25th anniversary in Paris with their daughter Rachel ’20.

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oldest son is engaged and has a landscaping business in Charleston, SC. Third child is a special education teacher and behavior analyst living with us right now. One of triplets is a horticulturalist, working in landscaping; one is in Wyoming, working on a ranch; and one is getting her master’s in sports management. We have no grandchildren yet, but love our granddogs, enjoy cooking for crowds of young people and play a lot of golf.

Carol Searles Bohrer is busy in Greensboro working on events for several non-profits. Her husband, Jason, now works in Chicago during the week. It has been a fun adventure exploring the Windy City! Her son Price (W&L ‘14) works in Richmond. Her daughter, Emily, graduated from High Point University in December. Alice Dixon is like a favorite Aunt to Emily and was there for her graduation! Carol and Emily celebrated with a mother/daughter

Jewett Winn Rothschild ’83, Virginia Claus Buyck ’83, Bet Dykes Pope ’83, Mimi Kitchel DeCamp ’83, Ellen Clare Gillespie Dreyer ’83, Melissa Cope Morrissette ’83, Lee Anne MacKenzie Chaskes ’83, and Miriam Baker Morris ’83 in the Bahamas

trip to Ecuador. They visited the Galapagos and Quito, but the highlight was spending a week with Valerie Youree in Guayaquil!

Monika Kaiser: This is a year of travel and weddings. In May, Richard, Alexa, Julius and I celebrated the wedding of my niece in Germany. I brought my mom back to the US for a few weeks and then back to Germany. Two more weddings will be celebrated in October. We finally got the flat roofs of our house done, which was a nightmare and took 3 contractors. Then the fridge gave up its life and leaked, resulting in a ruined kitchen floor which we will still have to fix. Otherwise all is well.

Gay Kenney Brown’s book, “Living With A Green Heart,” is out, available on Amazon. It’s about environmental health and how to protect yourself in our increasingly toxic world. Book signing tour dates are on her website, gaybrowne.com.

Leslie Wright Root and Lucy Chapman Millar ’83 Peyton Millar (daughter of Lucy Chapman Millar ’83) and Cameron Millar (daughter of Gretchen Wulster Millar ’83)

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Virginia Claus Buyck 1896 Park Drive Columbus, GA 31906 vbc414@aol.com Sarah Sutton has relocated from Oahu to Tacoma, WA, and is loving discovering the Pacific Northwest.

Sarah so appreciated her time in the natural setting of the Hawaiian Islands, but in her wise words “Paradise is where you choose it” and for her, that is family AND reduced GHG emissions. She is near her sons Taylor (29) and Parker (26), and continues to consult with museums and now works globally to advance the cultural sector’s role in addressing climate change.

Amy Boyce Osaki continues her magical 23-year experience of owning a specialty travel company. She wrote from Tromso, Norway, where

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she was leading a Mountain Hiking Holidays trip, and is leading trips to Patagonia, Dolomites and China this year. An SBCJYF alum was on her Dolomites trip! Amy and John are celebrating 30 years of marriage, and enjoying the new experience as parents of a university student — daughter Helen is a sophomore.

Amy is looking forward to seeing Sarah Sutton in Seattle, and has enjoyed keeping up with Desiree Bouchat and Marijtje van Duijn, and reconnecting with Val Johnson Peterson and Claude Becker Wasserstein ’82.

CLASS NOTES mischievous, sweet, 1 ½ year old standard poodle. Wendy is retired from real estate and Tolly is a stock broker with Chapin, Davis. Their daughter Eleanor (22) works for the Maryland Jockey Club, and Annie (27) is working on two masters at UPenn in Historic Preservation and City Planning. They are looking forward to a Mediterranean cruise in October. Hoping for success for their race horses in 2019!

Mason Bennett Rummel spent two wonderful weeks with family on Cumberland Island, GA where she has gone on and off most of her life. Mason and Rick are now empty nesters and have downsized and are renovating again — it’s possible this could be the ONE! Mason does lots of volunteer board work in Kentucky and nationally, and says life at the James Graham Brown Foundation is great, with lots of fun travel across the country. Their daughter Emma graduated from Sweet Briar in May — Rick and Mason loved getting to dance again at the Boathouse during the festivities.

Laura Mixon Camacho just celebrated the 10th anniversary of her own boutique communication skills training firm (Mixonian Institute) in Charleston, SC. She does private and corporate coaching to help people’s communication skills. Laura’s last child just graduated from college — she is happy and so is her bank account. She keeps in touch with Mary Ware Gibson and Elena Quevedo.

Leslie Wright Root and her husband are happily celebrating their 35th anniversary. They are enjoying retirement in Telluride, CO, filling their time with lots of travel, skiing, hiking, biking and golf. She keeps up with Lucy Chapman Millar and her husband. Leslie travels to Texas and Jacksonville, FL, to visit children and grandchildren as often as she can.

She just returned from a wonderful SBC girls family get-together on Hilton Head with her mother-in-law Mary Ann Root ’53 and sister-in-law Francie Root ’80.

Leslie Malone Berger works as a speech language pathologist for Roanoke County Public Schools, starting this year at a small rural school. She has also accepted a part-time position as an adjunct clinical supervisor at Radford University and is looking forward to this new opportunity as well as working with graduate level

students. Leslie and Kevin are enjoying the “mostly” empty nest, with occasional visits from their children and granddog.

Melissa Byrne Partington and her husband Robert celebrated their 25th anniversary in Paris. Sweet side note — Robert proposed at our 10th class reunion in front of Sweet Briar House! They were fortunate to visit their daughter Rachel Catherine ’20 who was studying with SBC Junior Year in Paris, and spent time in Bourgogne, cycling through the vineyards and touring towns in the region. Melissa and Robert enjoy getting together with Anne Little Woolley and her husband Doug and grabs lunch with Anne and Blair Clark Swoope when they can.

Lucy Chapman Millar shared beautiful photos from their daughter Peyton’s wedding in May. Gretchen Wulster Millar’s daughter Cameron was in the wedding. Lucy noted how special this was — Gretchen was one of Lucy’s bridesmaids when she married Ken, and Gretchen met her future husband John (Ken’s brother) at their wedding! And to top it all off the Voltage Brothers were the band for Peyton’s wedding — an amazing and wonderful night.

Pam Weekes has hit a huge home run with Levain Bakery. They just opened location #5 this week on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, with #6 coming to NoHo (downtown NYC in the fall).

Ellen Chaney Webster is a sales associate at J. Jill in Fairfax, VA. She is enjoying several creative outlets — has recently joined a local art club and enjoys jewelry making. Sons Andrew and Robbie are 18 and 16.

Andrew will attend Northern Virginia Community College this fall, with an interest in astronomy, while Robbie continues to excel in high school. Ellen has enjoyed vacationing in Wrightsville Beach for the past five years with her extended family, noting that her 12-year-old niece is the sixth fastest female runner in her age group in the country!

Bobbie Serrano Black and Paul were recently in Amelia Island, FL, where they had a mini-reunion with Janet Lewis Shepherd. They weren’t the only ones at the hotel, turns out the Rolling Stones were also staying there, and Mick Jagger was at the pool. Bobbie didn’t get a chance to chat with him, alas, you can’t always

get what you want.

Grayson Harris Lane and David are empty nesters and have been busy traveling and renewing old hobbies.

The latest is scuba diving and their children have joined them on trips to Thailand and Belize. Grayson is still in the Bay Area and volunteers as a literacy tutor and art teacher at local underserved schools. Their oldest daughter lives and works nearby, and their son hopes to return to the area after graduating from Duke next year.

Virginia Claus Buyck: Work, life and family are good in Florence, SC. My youngest, Brooks, is interning in Boston this summer, so I have gone “home” to Wellesley several times to visit. Had a wonderful mini-reunion at Bet Dykes Pope’s beautiful home in Bakers Bay, Bahamas, this past Spring with Bet, Jewett Winn Rothschild, Melissa Cope Morrissette, Mimi Kitchel DeCamp, Lee Anne MacKenzie Chaskes, Ellen Clare Gillespie Dreyer and Miriam Baker Morris. I’m also looking forward to playing golf in Linville, NC with Mary Pope Maybank Hutson in August.

Loved hearing from so many, thank you!

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Louise Jones Geddes 2590 Woodward Way NW Atlanta, GA 30305 LJGeddes5@gmail.com Our 35th Reunion has come and gone! After many months of anticipation and work helping to generate enthusiasm for Reunion, I am pleased to report that we had a GREAT turnout to Reunion as 30 of us came back for part or all of reunion in May 2019. Everyone had fun, the campus looked beautiful and all of us were impressed with President Woo and were happy to see things looking so positive on campus.

Here are just a few of the comments from classmates who attended our 35th Reunion: Debbie Jones wrote that she has a deeper appreciation for our classmates and our common bond in SBC, which she finds incredibly special! She had so much fun seeing people she hadn’t seen in years!” Ginger Reynolds Davis loved being back at SBC with Class

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After 37 years living in New York City, Elena Quevedo relocated to Miami, FL, as chief development officer with Miami City Ballet. Being from South America, Elena thought this move would be easy, but it has been like moving to another galaxy!

She loves her job which keeps her on her toes 24/7. To escape the heat, Elena and long-time partner Kevin are going to the Norwegian Arctic Circle, to the Svalbard Island archipelago to watch the Northern Lights and savor the cold weather. Daughter Olivia has returned to live in New Orleans, and Sebastian is in Miami, torturing Elena by insisting on weekly visits to the Miami Seaquarium to watch Lolita the semi-blind killer whale.

Deirdre Platt lives with her three children in Loja, a nice, cultural, small city in the south of Ecuador.

She speaks on several radio stations about environmental matters, chemicals, pollution and health related issues. The past few years have been a time of beginnings and endings for their family, but Deidre has very courageously navigated a new life for her children filled with a future wedding, better educational opportunities and a natural environment.

And lest you think that Deirdre has changed at all, fear not, she signed off by saying she needed to get milk from a cow across the valley!

Blair Redd lives in Marblehead, MA, and welcomes all fellow Vixens to come and visit! She recently spent a wonderful week in beautiful Maui.

Her daughter Raleigh just graduated from the College of Charleston and is a junior equity analyst at Stephens, Inc. in Little Rock, AR. Blair’s son is looking at colleges in VA and NC — loved HS-C! While in VA, she was happy to return to Sweet Briar, catching up with Mary Pope Maybank Hutson, Lee Anne MacKenzie Chaskes and other SBC friends at the Alumnae House.

Diana Waterman Duffy is still very involved with the Maryland Republican Party, serving for her second year as president of the Maryland Federation of Republican Women, and on her County’s Republican Committee. Diana and her family, including daughter Caty Waterman ’11, are headed to Hungary in August for a river cruise on the Danube.

Wendy Chapin Albert and Tolly are busy with Harvey, their active,

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of 1984 classmates. She especially loved seeing new faces at reunion and appreciated Cheri Burritt Yates making us all look good! Patsy Roby Gotfredson wrote that it was a special treat to be back at SBC and a blessing to see the campus looking so beautiful. Patsy was so impressed

by President Woo and really enjoyed listening to her at Convocation, and Patsy looks forward to returning to campus again soon. Beth Slayman Nubbe reported that it was so great to catch up with people, whether we knew each other well back in the day or not. She really enjoyed hanging out on the Carson porch with everyone. And she loved that we all look exactly the same as we did in 1984 (or better)! She is already looking forward to seeing everyone at the 40th! Tracy Glaves Spalding found a renewed feeling of all of life’s possibilities while being back on our beautiful campus. Liz Rodgers Boyd reported on the joy of greeting old friends and laughing, always laughing, at Reunion. She thought the campus looked so much better than in 2014, and she is so pleased that SBC is really being brought back to its glory. Virginia Spigener found that it was so heartwarming to be in such a beautiful place surrounded by fond memories and friends from 35 years ago! Being back at the barn and on an SBC trail ride was really special.

Others attending reunion included: Elizabeth Harley Willett, Camille Mitchell Wingate, Penney Parker Hartline, Sharon Ingham Brown, Helen Pruitt Butler, Courtney Warrick Cherna, Cindy “Skip” Pierce Kohlenberger, Cathy Cash Mays, Mary Earle McElroy, Kathleen “KP” Papadimitriou, Chris Svoboda, Sue Walters, Wendy Hyland Warren, Karen Williams Wickre, Michelle Scherrer Klimt, Cheri Burritt Yates, Mary Baker Brockman, Sue Croker Fisher, Cathy Toomey Gregorie, Betsy Becton Hannah and Juliet Jacobsen Kastorff. Beth Richmond Hyder and Margaret O’Connor met up with a group of us who arrived in Richmond a day early, but due to work and other commitments these two couldn’t make it to campus.

Some big news during reunion was that our own Cheri Burritt Yates received the Outstanding Alumna award at Reunion! Cheri

Class of 1984 front and center at the band party during Reunion 2019

was recognized for her quiet but diligent work in helping to renovate and restore the Florence Elston Inn. With a very limited budget and some donated furniture, Cheri worked her magic to get the Inn looking beautiful, and with her hospitality expertise she helped to establish clear procedures and processes for running the Inn. Congratulations Cheri!

A final note from reunion is that Ginger Reynolds Davis and Debbie Jones have stepped up and agreed to co-lead the class of 1984 as co-presidents! We are grateful to them for agreeing to take on this fun but sometimes demanding volunteer job! And a big thanks to Liz Rodgers Boyd for her work over the past 5 years!

Beyond the reunion news, several classmates also sent updates. Lisa Burwell Reichard writes that 2019 has been a year of endings and new beginnings for her family: Her eldest son and his wife are expecting twins in the late fall (Lisa’s first grandchildren!); her daughter is transitioning from being a Young Life area director to being a middle school teacher; her third, a son, just graduated from Messiah College (Grantham, PA) and is working a summer job while seeking more permanent employment; and her youngest son has just graduated from high school and is headed off to Lipscomb University (Nashville, TN) in the fall. Since the business she co-owned/ran for 25+ years is now closed, and she has finished home-schooling her children, she is sending out resumes and applications for full-time work outside the home. Lisa was sorry to miss reunion, but it coincided with

Members of the Class of 1984 pose with the class banner before Saturday’s dinner and dance at Reunion 2019.

her youngest son’s graduation ceremony and party. She doesn’t see too many SBC friends as events seem to mostly be held either in Baltimore or DC (both an hour or more away); but she does occasionally have the opportunity to get together with Patsy Roby Gotfredson during her annual summer trips to hers and Patsy’s hometown of Grosse Pointe, MI, where Patsy resides.

Ginger Reynolds Davis reports that she and Lynn went to beautiful Eleuthera in May, and she heartily recommends it. They headed to Debbie Jones’s for July 4 and are looking forward to visiting Seagrove, FL, in Sept/Oct. Ginger loved seeing everyone at reunion!

Ann Alleva Taylor was sad to miss reunion, but, alas, her nephew was graduating the same weekend.

She is still in Vero Beach with Carter, Cabot, Caroline and Charlotte.

She has been visiting with Patsy Kraeger ‘85 and meeting great alums in both Vero and Palm Beach! She is sending her youngest to boarding school (St Tims) this fall. It is both exciting and sad for her but on a very bright note, her dorm supervisors are from SBC which makes Ann feel really great sending her away for the first time. Now we just need to find the right college for our oldest Cabot who will be applying to colleges, but no word about SBC, yet!

Debbie Jones loved opening her farm to so many classmates and co-hosting, with Mary Earle McElroy and Chris Svoboda, a pre-reunion dinner in Richmond the night before the start of reunion. It was a fun night and reunion was fabulous! Debbie had an incredible time re-connecting with so many people she hadn’t seen since graduation.

She is still loving life with her horses, still running Capital Markets for Citizens Bank and helping her sister, when she can, with Square One Organic Vodka. Debbie is looking forward to staying connected over the next few years.

Sharon Ingham Brown has been busy with travel as she has spent time on the west coast visiting son Davis and grandson Thomas. Sharon is thrilled to report the good news that doctors believe that Davis’s brain tumor has been eradicated! Hooray!

Sharon also traveled to the UK to visit her daughter Caroline who was studying in Ireland. Sharon is about halfway through a Master’s Degree at Florida State University and she is enjoying global travel with her job.

She says another highlight of this year has been visiting with Sweet Briar friends.

Robin Cannizzaro writes that she is busy in her holistic Veterinary Practice. She works from a home office and her office “help” consists

At Ankida Ridge Vineyards in Amherst County with NC friends, L to r: Caperton Morton ’85, Chris Smith ’85, DeAnne Blanton ’85, Dick Higgins, Chris’ dad and stepmom

of four Frenchies, one rescue Boxer and a Doberman. She enjoys riding horses in the morning, training both dressage and jumping. Robin and her partner of 21 years, Debbie, enjoy trail rides as well. They still live on a farm in Brooksville, FL, and Robin also happily does some public speaking.

I, Louise Jones Geddes, had a fantastic time at reunion and was so happy to see how wonderful Sweet Briar looks and was so gratified by our class’s response and enthusiasm for reunion. Re-connecting with SBC classmates continues to be a blessing. During the summer while visiting my kids in DC I also caught up with Cindy “Skip” Pierce Kohlenberger and Chris Svoboda.

Of course it was fun seeing those girls!

On a sad note, I report the passing of classmate Lee Vandegrift Felts in May of this year. Lee was claimed by both the Class of ’84 and the Class of ’85. She spent much of her adult life in Lexington, KY, and fell victim to cancer. Please keep her family in your thoughts.

Finally, you should’ve received an electronic class directory containing class of 1984 names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses, by email. If you didn’t receive it, then the college doesn’t have an up-todate email address for you! If you want to get a class directory by email, either send me your current email address or send it to the college.

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Caperton Morton 30 E 55th Street Kansas City, MO 64113 cape1916@gmail.com Catty Hubbard Andry and her husband, Michael, have enjoyed living in Asheville for the last nineteen years. She keeps up with Jane Cox Childress, Patti Dolan Stuebe, Brigid McGlynn Lengyel and Carrick Winkler ’88. Catty’s 90-yearold mother, Susan Taylor Hubbard ’51, is still in Virginia Beach, living independently with her sweet dog, Winky. Catty’s eldest son is an engineering student at NC State. She’s hoping that her second son will soon figure out where he’ll be attending college. Her daughter will be a high school sophomore this fall. Catty enjoys playing tennis and work with her garden club, which will be hosting the GCA annual meeting next spring. But, her number one passion and hobby is still garment sewing.

She loves seeing her SBC sisters on Facebook.

Vicki Vidal Blum continues loving to work from home for Black Knight, a mortgage banking technology company. She had a fun time visiting Heidi Belofsky Cromwell and Suzanne Weaver Zimmer at Heidi’s new home in Fort Lauderdale this Spring. Heidi often hosts “Martini Night” at her home in Tysons, VA, where other alumnae gather,

DeAnne Blanton ’85 with Abigail during visit with Caperton Morton ’85 and her husband, Chris.

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including DeAnne Blanton. Vicki took a painting vacation to the Dordogne region in France in 2018 and stayed at a converted convent turned artist retreat. She enjoyed excursions with beauty at every turn and fab food every day. She also took a painting vacation in Vermont in 2019 and visited with Whitney Machnik. She often visits with Barbara Tragakis Conner in Middleburg, VA. This year has been incredible for Barbara Tragakis Conner. “Becoming a grandmother is simply wonderful!” She is thrilled that Margaret, Alex, and the baby are nearby. She is hoping everyone in the class is doing well and would love to meet us for lunch or dinner if we travel to Middleburg, VA. So far, Laura Fry says that 2019 has been crazy. Her twin daughters are heading off to college in the fall (both in honors programs). Laura and her husband, Todd, are moving Laura’s special needs sister in with them. Laura is back to teaching at the college level and applying as a PhD candidate. Meanwhile Todd is in the process of turning their farm into an AirB&B. “Life is truly grand.”

Kim Knox Norman and husband Bart are still in Atlanta where she works for Emory University.

Their daughter Sally (23) finished at UGA last year and son Joseph (20) is a sophomore at UNG-Dahlonega. Kim loves how often she sees ‘85 Vixens Ann Gonya, Chris Corcoran Trauth, Katie Hearn, Lenetta McCampbell and Karen Nickles ’86.

DeAnne Blanton loves her home in Bridgewater, VA, even if she only gets to be there with her husband, Dick, on weekends. She still works at the National Archives and is looking forward to retirement from Federal service in February 2020.

Joyce Coleman has three fun things that she enjoys most — traveling, working and Bocelli concerts.

In the last year, she has been on the Danube River, a cruise around Iceland and a train trip across Switzerland. She says, “Work is not work when you love what you do.” She represents children in court. Bocelli’s voice continues to delight her and she sees him at least twice a year.

Since Mitzi Morgan and her husband, Chris, knocked a trip to Hawaii off their bucket list last year, it’s been nose to the grindstone for them both. This summer, they’ve enjoyed road trips with friends. They kicked it off at Art Fields in Lake City, SC, with an artist-friend who won a merit award. Then, Mitzi took a solo trip to North Carolina and central Virginia, where she visited new towns and old cemeteries, connecting dots of her family history.

And, she stopped in for a visit with Madge Hall Vosteen and Caperton Morton, coinciding with reunion weekend. She and Chris have made a point of being tourists in their own town by visiting more local destinations like Flannery O’Connor’s Andalusia Farm and the real Whistle Stop Cafe in and around Millidgeville. When she’s not escaping the

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During a quick visit to campus on Reunion Weekend, Madge Hall Vosteen ’85 and Mitzi Morgan ’85 ran into Chris Svoboda ’84 and Helen Pruitt Butler ’84.

Kim Knox Norman ’85, Chris Corcoran Trauth ’85, Katie Hearn ’85 and Suzanne Weaver Zimmer ’85 at JazzFest in New Orleans

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Atlanta grind, or taking a break from much appreciated obligations as a realtor and property manager, she works on modern quilting projects and volunteers in the breast center at the local hospital, which she finds “beyond gratifying”. Her fur baby, Baxter (an older, sweet natured, Siamese ragdoll-mix), is doing fine and really enjoys the heat of the driveway.

Raising Sophia Rose has been Ellen Reed Carver life’s greatest blessing. Sophia is now 15-years-old and full of girl power. Ellen is celebrating her fifth year as executive director of Girls on the Run Hampton Roads. They build girls’ confidence and health at the critical time of early puberty. She married Will Redfern 3 years ago, which is keeping life full of adventure. They love volunteering and traveling together.

Molly Hanley Callahan has been with the Drug Enforcement Administration for the past 20 years.

She was posted to the Houston, Newark and Austin Offices and was a Unit Commander at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, VA. In June 2018, she underwent a twelve-level thoracic and lumbar fusion after more than 20 years of back problems and numerous fusions. She realized she could no longer perform her job, so she applied for a disability retirement, which was approved in March.

Now, she and her 2 English bulldogs live with her 92-year-old mother, in Victoria, TX, while she continues her estimated year-long recovery.

She and Tracy Birch, Kate Byrne

Mitzi Morgan ’85, Caperton Morton ’85 and Madge Hall Vosteen ’85 at Virginia Distillery Company in Amherst County

and Joan Byrne Voss enjoy seeing each other along with other classmates. Molly adds, “Enjoy every day, Vixens!”

Katie Hearn is still in the “great city” of Baltimore. She’s a senior VP and runs the Mid-Atlantic office of Redgate, a real estate advisory and development company. She enjoys getting together with several Vixens often during the year, including in May at JazzFest in New Orleans with Suzanne Weaver Zimmer, Kim Norman and Chris Corcoran Trauth. She can’t wait for our 35th Reunion next year. Katie says, “I hope to see all of the Class of ‘85 there!!

Nancy Finley Worcester is still living in Virginia Beach! Her kids are all doing fine and life is good.

She’s looking forward to September travels to Turkey and Spain.

Beth Anderson Kearns is looking forward to spending time with Rushton Haskell Callahan ’86 and Sally Englby Farrell ’86. Sally lives nearby in Exeter, NH, and Rushton has a home in the Monadnock region — so they are all meeting in the middle for a mini reunion.

Now empty nesters, Ann Martin Gonya and her husband work in Baltimore and enjoy spending time

Cheryl Bishop Gilman ’90, Jenna Lindsey ’10 and Caperton Morton ’85 have a serendipitous meeting at Crows Coffee in Kansas City, MO.

on their farm near Charlottesville.

Their daughter, Caroline, graduated from law school in LA. She is gainfully employed and has a federal clerkship in LA for the next eighteen months. Their son will be a junior at Colorado College. She sees many Vixens during the year with visits to SBC for the Alumnae games — golf and lax organized by Katie Hearn.

She enjoys Vixen vacations to St. Maarten with Katie Hearn, Lenetta McCampbell, Kim Knox, Chris Trauth and Karen Gonya Nickles ‘86.

She’s also looking forward to seeing everyone at Reunion next year!

“Wow, 35 years!”

Rebecca Atha Cain works parttime as an anesthesiologist at University Hospital in Augusta, GA. She and her husband Mark Cain who’ve been married for 28 years, have three daughters: 23, 20 and 14 years old. She says, “Call me if you need Masters housing. We usually have a spare bedroom.” She’s involved in children’s ministry and missions at their church. She teaches Bible class to elementary school kids and is a math tutor as well. Biking and playing pickleball are a couple of the hobbies Rebecca enjoys.

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erty her husband Geoff still enjoy their life in Cleveland with their gorgeous dog, Saba. But, they are selling their home in town for more elbow room back out in the country.

My husband, Chris, and I, Caperton Morton, are still in Kansas City. We get back to Virginia as often as possible to my family farm near Sweet Briar. I’m still working on my podcast, which I’ll launch this fall. Meeting and interviewing people as well the technical side of story production are all joys to me.

I am saddened by the death of Professor William E Smart, Professor of Creative Writing and English literature, last February. I spent a lot of fun times with Bill and [his wife] Aynura in Amherst and then after they moved to the Bronx with Chris too. In April, I went to the Bronx to stay with Aynura and to attend and speak at Bill’s memorial service.

Denise Montgomery ‘75 attended the service too. Denise Montgomery ’75 and Claire Dennison Griffith ’80, were among the many who shared their great Bill tales [at a memorial service at the columbarium on campus]. Chris and I [visited] DeAnne Blanton and Dick Higgins at their lovely home in Bridgewater, VA, on the North River. Mitzi Morgan and Madge Hall Vosteen along with her husband, Paul, and their oldest daughter, Vaden, and joined us at Cherrywood. Madge, Mitzi and I took a walk at Sweet Briar where we ran into Chris Svoboda ’84 and Helen Pruitt ’84. Later that week, Linda DeVogt ’86 and her husband Robert Freis along with her momma, Ann, brought our very own Aunt Sadie along to the farm for dinner.

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Maia Free Jalenak 605 Camelia Avenue Baton Rouge, LA 70806 maiajay@att.net Stacy Sickels Locke writes, “Aren’t we fortunate to have Katie Keogh Weidner serving SBC as major gifts officer? I’ve had such fun hearing about SBC from her perspective.

Thank you Katie! Lea Harvey ‘90 also keeps me updated. I got to celebrate Tina Savage Lytle’s daughter’s graduation at their beautiful home in May. Kate Cole Hite and I keep in touch as we are neighbors. Thanks to SBC sparking a love of learning,

I completed my MBA this summer.

I continue to serve the University of Maryland as a fundraiser. My older son, Kent, got married last September to his college sweetheart, Jami, in Cleveland and they are living in Annapolis near me. My younger son, Leland, returns to Principia College this fall as a sophomore. I’m definitely now in the “sandwich” generation caring for my mother who has a number of health issues. Sometimes that feels like a part-time job, but I am grateful she is around. Now that I have an empty nest and my degree is finished, I am trying my hand at other hobbies (dancing, gardening and skating again). I love being connected in person and virtually to Sweet Briar.”

Jennifer Crawley Lewis writes, “my husband, Max and I have enjoyed living in Jacksonville, FL, so much we decided to make our move here permanent and purchased a home near our country club.

I enjoy my frequent lunches with Nancy Wright ‘68 and Michelle Klimt ‘84. Our daughter Diana got into her first choice college Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and will start there in the fall. We are very pleased she was given a very substantial four-year academic scholarship and has chosen to swim butterfly and mid distance free for RPI. I enjoy seeing what my classmates and their children are doing on Facebook — keep posting!”

Stephanie Sprouse Ward is still in Conn. and enjoys it very much.

She was sorry to miss Reunion last year and misses her vixen sisters.

Working for a homecare agency, she is busy and challenged daily (in a good way mostly!) along with finding herself humbled by her staff and amazing clients. She celebrated her 10-year anniversary this year with husband, Phil. Her son, Jackson (18) graduated high school this year, and is still working out his future plans (but in the meantime is working and really enjoying himself ). Stephanie saw Staci Stockburger Fritzges and her family last 4th of July when they came from Arkansas with their boys and everyone all had a blast. Stephanie noted that she was reliving her youth when she took Phil to an English Beat concert in May — “it was awesome! They still sound great and

brought the house down.” Stephanie and Phil are really looking forward to a trip they have coming up to Vancouver and Alaska.

Tracy Tigerman Goodman is going into her 32nd year of teaching and will be teaching pre-k. She notes that she is married to the love of her life and they will be celebrating their first year of marriage on July 29. In August, her daughter (17) and son (24) will both celebrate their birthdays.

Denise Landau Blind shares, “as I write this, we are enjoying another beautiful summer evening on our patio in Glen Rock, NJ! It’s been so much fun having our daughter, Chelsea home this summer after she studied abroad in Australia for the semester. We traveled to Fiji (for my birthday!) on our way to visit Chelsea. My son, Tyler and his girlfriend joined us and we all flew home together from Sydney. It was a great trip and my husband and I enjoyed the time away from our company.

Tyler just left his job at one of the big accounting firms in NYC for a great opportunity with a smaller hedge fund … hoping to see him more often now that he will have more normal work hours. As always, I’m hoping our crew can get together soon (Julie Martin Collins, Cameron Cox Hirtz, Denton Freeman and Paige Shiller Okun)!

Nici Fraley Pechman’s daughter, Fraley, will be a senior and son, Jake, will be a junior at W&L where he is president of his fraternity, Phi Gam/ Fiji. He’s home this summer doing a 12-week internship with RX Benefits. She recently enjoyed family trips white water rafting on the Ocoee in TN, and a week to Lake Santeetlah in NC. Nici is traveling to Virginia Beach to visit Kristen Petersen Randolph and for her brother Gus’ wedding there in August.

Mariam Kahn writes from Potomoc, MD, that she’s doing well and enjoys keeping up with our classmates on FB. Kelly Meredith Iacobelli and I share a love for bulldogs and recently enjoyed exchanging photos of our darling, furry children. Kelly’s adorable human daughter, Kathleen is about to start her senior year in high school. Kelly is teaching marketing at a community college and enjoys

attending SBC alumnae events in Atlanta.

Jay and I, Maia Free Jalenak, just celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary with a trip to the Florida Keys rounded out with a visit to see my parents who live in Fort Myers.

I am excited to be going to DC this weekend to visit Jeanne Rovics Dees on the happy occasion of her son’s Blake remission party. Blake (21) has made an extraordinary recovery since being diagnosed with Lymphoma in January. He’ll return for his junior year at Ole Miss this fall.

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Jean Spillane Benning 484-744-5449 jeanbenning@outlook.com Heather Colson Ewing: It’s been quite a year. David (HS-C ’91) and I celebrated 25 years last April, and we both turned 50. Nick is a senior at the University of the South where we get to see a few SBC friends and Olivia is a sophomore at Denison University. We are still in Atlanta and hope that if you find yourself nearby, you’ll call! I look forward to seeing everyone next May at reunion.

Also if you’re interested in helping with SBC admissions as an admissions ambassador send me an email!

It’s been a summer of comings and goings north and south for Lea Harvey and her wife, Kiki Galvin.

The highlight was a weeklong road trip from Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park along the Blue Ridge Parkway in July. Lea is enjoying her role with the College as director of foundation and corporate relations and Kiki’s fly-fishing service, Ms.Guided, is gearing up for a busy fall season in the Blue Ridge.

Julie Brooks Nyquist and her family moved last year to Wayne, IL, about an hour outside of Chicago. They purchased a mid-century modern home on 13 acres that needs a great deal of TLC. Current projects include milling downed trees, clearing neglected tennis courts and renovating the kitchen. Her 10-yearold son Andrew is in 4th grade and enjoys lacrosse. Julie and husband Stephen spend the weekends working on the house and yard with the

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ol McMurtry Fowler ’57] and her dog Spice Almighty up at the Garden Cottage. We had the best time driving around Amherst County, getting lost and having lunch. [Chris and I] had a July 4 adventure with a group of family and friends, including DeAnne Blanton and her husband Dick Higgins, at the beautiful Ankida Ridge Vineyards in Amherst County. Jenna Lyndsey ‘10 and I tried arranging a luncheon in with KC alumnae group, but didn’t have many takers, so we met for coffee/tea with Cheryl Bishop Gilman ’90. In May, I was contacted by Taylor Felts, the eldest daughter of Lee Vandegrift Felts who wrote to let me know the sad news of her momma’s passing on March 30. After graduating with us in 1985, Lee’s love of horses took her to Louisiana Downs where she learned to ride racehorses. Then, in 2000, she started Elizabeth Station Farm in Lexington, KY, where for 17 years, she bred and foaled mares, broke yearlings and so much more.

The saying on one of her favorite fridge magnets was, “Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.” Though Lee begin with her freshman year with the Class of ’84, she became part of our graduating class of ’85. I’m personally glad for the time Lee and I spent together while at Sweet Briar. She was both kind and lots of fun, plus that lovely smile of hers! It was contagious.

Lastly, compiling the Class Notes for the Class of ’85 continues to be an honor for me. Take care y’all and see you next year at our 35th Reunion!

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tractor and gator. Julie enjoyed a weekend back on SBC campus with Debbie Lee and Lea Harvey in April. She also spent some time with family on the shores of Lake Michigan during the summer.

Brandi Beck: Hey Vixens! Life finds me still living in NYC with Andrew and our 14-year-old daughter, Dasha. Luckily I still enjoy being a clinical psychologist. Last spring, we traveled to Puerto Rico where I had the pleasure of visiting with Dolly Garcia. In July we traveled to South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. It had been 20 years since I was in South Africa, so the trip was filled with memories of life in my twenties.

I hope all is well with each of you.

Please let me know if you visit NYC. Cheryl Gilman: We are still in Kansas City with our youngest starting her junior year of high school. SBC is on her college visit list! Our oldest daughter lives in Asheville, NC. Our oldest son, his wife, a 15-month-old daughter and babe in utero are moving in October to Cherry Point, NC, for 3-year duty station with USMC. Our middle son is managing a breakfast shop here in Kansas City and enjoying it. Our youngest son is stationed at Fort Leonardwood, MO, completing dispel engineering school enlisted with the USMC. Crazy that we have two Marines! One of my highlights for August was ranch sitting for Beth Babbitt Bowen while she took her youngest to UVA. I’m enjoying riding and keeping up with other Vixens around town when I’m not catching babies. Scott and I look forward to celebrating our 29-year anniversary this winter.

Sarah Andres Sale: I am living in Staunton, VA, with my husband Lamar and our two Boston Terriers, Sally and Daphne. Recently, I decided to take a break from teaching and am currently working in the office at a local independent school which has been a great change. I see Joie Roderick Tankard out and about, as she also lives in Staunton. Last fall, a group of us got together to celebrate our 50th Jubilee which included a visit to SBC! I would love to see other ‘90s at Sweet Work Weeks; it’s a lot of fun! Neither of the dogs demonstrates much potential for being a successful college student.

Jen Brennan Rucker: I am starting my 7th year of homeschooling my 2 daughters who are now a freshman and sophomore in High School. I sold the nanny agency I owned for 10 years in Newport, RI, to focus full time on homeschooling and I will be visiting SBC with my oldest this year as we begin college tours! My husband and I are about to celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary and can’t believe we have a daughter about to begin driver’s ed. I have been fortunate to see classmate Jean Benning when she travels to Newport for business and I have almost weekly phone chats with one of my favorite Vixens, Joan Clickner.

All roads lead to Sweet Briar and I am especially excited about getting back to campus in the near future!

Debbie Lee is still with the USPTO but now teleworks from Jacksonville Beach, FL. She is loving the weather, the beach and kayaking!

She keeps in touch with her Class of 1990 classmates Lea Harvey, Vanessa Rhodes and Julie Brooks Nyquist. Lea, Julie and Debbie held a mini-reunion at SBC in April. It was wonderful to be together with old friends at SBC.

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Dianne Hayes Doss didoss@comcast.net Norma Bulls Valentine norma_v0@yahoo.com Jennifer Jarvis Ballard writes that it has been a whirlwind year in her household as her twins, Jesseca and Ethan, graduated high school this June. They have spent the last year visiting schools, filling out forms and celebrating. Jesseca is going to be a member of the Sweet Briar class of 2023! She is super excited to be joining our sisterhood and can’t wait for move-in day! After much consideration, Ethan will be attending our local community college to get his degree in heavy equipment/ diesel mechanics with a certification in welding. So excited to see these young adults make their way in the world.

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Lenora Farrington 3255 Read Mountain Rd Roanoke, VA 24019 LenoraFarrington@kw.com Jennifer St. Julian Wooden was named a “Top 30 Influential Women of Houston” Texas this year.

Lenora Farrington-Sarrouf published a children’s book, LACY’S MAGIC TREE, under the pen name L. F. Sarrouf. She shortened her name back to Lenora Farrington and moved from Massachusetts to Roanoke, VA, where she works as a realtor with Keller Williams.

Katherine Cook: I am living in a tiny yellow house with way too many cats and a bunch of misfit dogs. I enjoy my garden and my practically perfect in every way OTTB, Ned. I am getting increasingly set in my ways and I am thinking about transitioning to a career in witchcraft when I retire from being a paramedic.

Nellie Kan Zamborsky: I am sorry to have missed reunion but took my daughter to Taiwan for 2 months of Mandarin Chinese camp.

She loved it and I sweated to death.

Of course, we ate great food and hung out with family and friends.

Real hubby only got to stay with us for 3 weeks.

Belinda Smith Struckmeyer: I am still living the adventure of homeschooling our 4 children with 3 in high school this year and one in junior high. That actually takes up the majority of my time, while trying to get in more moments to read the ever-growing pile of books, graphic novels and manga under my nightstand.

Amy Davis: I’ve mostly been working hard. I’ve got a couple of academic papers coming out in the upcoming months, I’ve been named to the editorial board of “Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal,” and I’ve recently finished an edited collection, “Discussing Disney,” that’s coming out as a monograph later this year. But the best thing in recent times has been to become an aunt for the first time! I’m looking forward to my upcoming study leave when I finally get to meet my nephew after spending many hours FaceTime-ing with him.

Tysha Noel Calhoun: I’ve had a great year theatrically, playing “The Witch in Into The Woods,” and directing “Steel Magnolias” later this year. Pat and I continue to get the homesite ready in preparation for our build in 2021 and have added to our pack: we have four dogs! Rumor has it if you even look at our house you’ll get hair on you...Pat and I also continue to volunteer our time for the theatre in Lockhart (that turns 100 next year!) and our second favorite non-profit, the Old Settlers Music Festival. Life is good.

Molly Phemister: I am raising a creative and spirited kid and her cat-brother in Lincoln, NE, where I double as both the executive director for the Southern Heights Food Forest (yes, we are planting an edible forest!) and the Education Coordinator for Community Crops. Both non-profits are valuable, but alas, not always able to value their folk as they’d like, so slowly but surely, I’m also creating Gardenary People, an online garden coaching service.

Heather McKoy Shumaker: I am currently serving as the administrative coordinator for Napa Valley Nursery School (a parent cooperative preschool), the board chair for Stone Bridge School (a Waldorf-inspired elementary charter school), a stay-at-home mom to our 2 kids Emily, who is 10 years old, and Jack, who is almost 8 years old, and a wife to my husband, Erik.

Lorelei Bahret Mote: I was just on a wonderful cruise with my family to the Caribbean. We were able to visit Nassau Bahamas where I met my husband 25 years ago. Boy has that island changed and apparently the club we met at is no longer there. My kids both still love dance and my daughter is gearing up for another competition year. I can’t wait to watch her new tap solo. We also had the opportunity to be extras in 2 movies over the summer. One of which is Tollywood film set to be released sometime next year here in the US and in India. The other film, “John Light,” has been released and we can be seen in the stands at a basketball game sitting behind Dean Cain. Other than that I have been keeping busy with helping out my Mom.

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Eileen MacMurtrie Zuckerman 718 Larchwood Ln. Villanova, PA 19085 eileenrita@gmail.com

Lida Anne Elliott ’95, Shannon Daut ’95 and Jane Rabadi ’95 in May 2019 taking a water taxi from Homer to Halibut Cove in Alaska

Cari Miller James ’95, Karen Giorgetti ’95, Kelly Hall ’95 and Jen Parker Raudenbush ’95 enjoyed their annual mini-reunion in Pennsylvania.

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Katie Maxwell Schellhammer 22914 Goldenrod Dr. Brambleton, VA 20148-6967 Katie@schellhammer.net Gwen Hickey Babcock reports that she moved to their new house.

She says, “The view up on this hill is phenomenal. Kaeden has her driver’s license now and is in 11th grade. She’s very interested in going to SBC, which steals my heart. Rory is in 6th and stealing my heart with her love of swimming. I get to Coach her from time to time which is fun.

Hope to see everyone in May 2020!”

Jane Rabadi has been living in Santa Monica for the past 3 years with her partner, Shannon, and their 2 kittens, Norma and Gordon. She

is working at a Los Angeles-based architecture firm, Frederick Fisher and Partners, doing graphic design and marketing, and continue making art in her free time. Lida Anne Elliott met her in Alaska in May where they enjoyed an amazing adventure together spotting wildlife, having beach fires, boat rides, hanging out with our Alaskan friends and road tripping through the mountains.

Cari Miller James, Karen Giorgetti, Kelly Hall and Jen Parker Raudenbush enjoyed their annual mini-reunion in Pennsylvania. Kelly Hall traveled to the UK, Spain and Iceland in January (alas, no Northern Lights!). She says, “I am enjoying my new job as the director of global initiatives at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA. Next spring I’ll be leading their Sophomore Expedition to London. I now live near Jennifer Raudenbush, and got to see her and Cari James and Karen Giorgetti last month. We do a pretty good job of getting together every summer.”

I, Katie Maxwell Schellhammer, got to spend a few hours with Kate Steptoe Fisher at our hometown fishing and swimming hole, Oral Lake in Bridgeport, WV. Kate lives in Ohio with her husband and three kids. I also see Heather Aspinwall Chiles and Anna Reilly occasionally around the DC area. Heather is teaching preschool, and Anna received a job promotion. Congrats Anna!

Mark your calendars for our 25th Reunion in May 2020. All are welcome, and we’re going to have fun!

Jesse Durham Strauss is still living in Alexandria, VA, with Oron and her three kids Anna (12), Audrey (11) and Ari (9), as well as their two chocolate labs Coco and Rosie.

After 17 years at the company, she left Strategic Analysis, Inc, starting her own LLC, and consulting parttime, so she could spend more time at home. She has quickly learned that means she is never ‘home’ and always in her car! She has taken advantage of the extra time to meet up with Janeen Sharma for a trip to Honolulu, HI, to visit Laura Lechler Hornef and a trip Myrtle Beach, SC, for Audrey’s gymnastics meet and visit with Sarah Chaffee Paris and her family.

Mary Copeland Stockton and her family recently moved to Vista, CA. Currently, a partner at The Clearing Center, Mary is a grief recovery specialist and certified transformational breath group leader.

Jen Beck Locke moved her family back to Huntsville, AL, this summer. Marte (16) will be in 10th grade at Whitesburg Academy and has a 4.9 GPA! Thomas (13) will be at Huntsville Achievement School and Trae (11) will be in 6th grade at Whitesburg Academy. Hunter is continuing to wear many hats at WestRock including the director of operations for the Southeast. Jen is staying busy volunteering at the kids’ schools and traveling with the family as much as possible. Never home.

Loving life. Truly blessed.

Sarah Reidy-Ferguson writes that she enjoyed a mini reunion in May in Waynesville, NC, that was a total blast! She had so much fun being with Sarah Chaffee Paris, Catharine King Laufer, April Collins Potterfield, Janeen Sharma, Jesse Durham Strauss, Rachel Baltus Price and host Jen Beck Locke. She is super excited to be volunteering with the Alumnae Alliance and cochair of the Communications Working Group. She reminds everyone to follow our daily posts on Twitter @ sbcalumnae, Instagram @sbcalumnae and Facebook @sweetbriaralum-

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Melanie Vracas 6641 Wakefield Dr No 608 Alexandria, VA 22307 mevracas@comcast.net Kate Hall: Busy getting Grace ready to start her first semester at SBC. Max starts high school this year and my new shop is flourishing!

Life is great!

Courtney Lammers Hemmer: I am living just south of Boston in Hingham, MA, where my daughter, Sydney (15), is going into her sophomore year in high school. Enjoying working for San Diego based company DEXCOM. I am very passionate about bringing CGM technology to patients at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Joslin Diabetes Center who are living with diabetes. Keep up with many Vixens from ’96 and ’97 — recently had a blast with Leighton Barrett Strong, Jennifer Lister and Kacey Farber in NYC. We love getting our kiddos together. Already planning our next adventure!

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Cynthia Hineline 1613 Finefrock Rd. Fremont, OH 43420 Cyndi.hineline@gmail.com Sara Stracey: Enjoying weekends out of NYC in the Hudson Valley, NY, where I’m busy transforming a Dairy barn space into an art / design studio. The views remind me of SBC! Adele (4) loves it too.

Mary Gheen Bennett: I am engaged and hope to marry in 2020! I won Teacher of the Year for Appomattox County in 2018.

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nae. She looks forward to being on campus in September! Lastly, we’d like to express our sincere gratitude and thanks to the Class of 1996 for their continued support of Sweet Briar College during the 2018/2019 fiscal year of fundraising. For the second year in a row, the Class of 1996 are the leaders in class participation percentage and in the top three for class gift giving, within the 1990s class bracket. Our success is truly a team effort. We are fierce and fired up for Sweet Briar!

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Kelly Turney Gatzke 105 Shaw Creek Ct. Elizabethtown, KY 42701-4638 warriorwomankelly@hotmail.com

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Rush Harris Mitchell: Rush, Jory and Katie Anne (8) welcomed Elizabeth Rae (Rae) to the family Sept. 25, 2018. She is very active, enjoys food, books and petting her 2 dogs and 2 cats. Katie Anne, an amazing big sister, is excited to start 2nd grade while entering her 4th year in piano and 5th year in ballet.

Rush’s little farm acquired 24 new laying hens this spring and Jory’s bike shop, Southern Carnage, continues to thrive in its new location in the old general store/restaurant across the street from their home in historic Mooresville, AL. Joanne Hopkins: I’m busy chasing after 2 toddlers, working parttime as a consultant in the electric utility industry and competing in local swimming and triathlon events.

I’m also on the SBC Alumnae Alliance working with the alumnae club leaders around the country and planning alumnae events.

Chantel Bartlett: Nothing big in my world these days. I was promoted to director in January and it’s been crazy busy ever since. We did a big internal restructure so we’re all trying to figure things out. Visited with Candice Broughton Maillard in Los Angeles late Feb. after my big business trip to Las Vegas. As always, it was such a joy spending time with Candice and the family.

Anna Wade Meres was in town for a few days at a conference so we

were able to spend an afternoon together catching up. My mom and I are more and more settled into the house. I was off for the entire week of July 4th so we stay-cationed and spent the week doing more painting and decorating. My personal project, to become a mom, is coming along slowly. It’s quite a journey, to say the least, but hopefully someday there will be future peanut to write about.

I’m incredibly blessed with the support of friends and family, especially my Vixens!

Cyndi Hague Hineline: I’ve been my usual busy self, still working for The Blonde Swan as an office administrator. I have recently performed in “Titanic: the Musical” and “The Vagina Monologues,” and will have wrapped up Verdi’s “Macbeth” with The Toledo Opera by the time everyone is reading this. My family has done a bit of traveling this year: We visited DC over spring break, where we were able to have a fun evening with Kelli Rogowski ‘99. In July, we were also able to visit Alison Burnett and her family at their beautiful farm in WI. As always, I love staying in touch with fellow Vixens via social media, and it is wonderful being able to connect so easily with those around the world!

Donna Hoogland Harwood: I continue to work in Hanover County Public Schools coaching and consulting to special education teachers and using my knowledge as a behavior analyst. My husband and I live in Charles City, VA, with our two dogs, though I try to get home to NJ as often as possible. Attending reunion was definitely a spring time highlight! It was so fun getting to return to campus and catch up with everyone!

Meghan Pollard: It was wonderful to be back on campus for our class’ 20th Reunion. I loved catching up with everyone and seeing how well everyone is doing. I didn’t want the weekend to end. Piper (10), Lex (8) and I have had a wonderful summer and spent a week at the beach at Tybee Island. Work continues to keep me busy in Admissions at Duke.

Heather McLeod: Heather and her partner, TJ, live in central Austin with their son (12) and daughter (10). Heather got her MFA from Texas State University in 2018 and is currently freelancing, writing and being a mom. She and TJ both work from home. They can’t get enough of their new sweet little house and neighborhood. Other family members include Jobi the three-legged dog, Max the cat (professional tormentor) and Clover the elderly toothless chihuahua.

Aimee Armentrout Peacemaker: I am getting ready to start my 2nd year teaching at The Carmel School, an independent school in Ruther Glen, VA. I moved from public school last year, and I absolutely love it! This will be my 14th year of teaching, all in kindergarten. I live with my husband, Jesse, and our beagle rescues, Ella and Gracie. I lost my mom in Feb., so I am trying to adjust to a new normal. I loved seeing everyone at reunion in May! Kris Harris: Was lucky to travel to 7 countries so far this year, but my favorite “vacation” to date was coming back for the 5th year of Sweet Work Weeks with Erin East ‘00 and

getting to work side by side with other alumnae, alumnae families and friends of the college. So exciting to see what the “buzz” is about with the apiary, see the grapes growing in the newly planted vineyard and the ground-breaking of the greenhouse.

I welcome anyone in class of ‘99 to visit in Tampa to escape the winter.

Elizabeth Wells Melvin: Switching it up after 10 year of teaching, currently working as a project administrator for a commercial concrete construction company. Living in downtown Durham with husband and our 2 yorkies. It was great to see everyone at the 2019 Reunion.

Kim Bolz-Andolshek: For over a decade Kim has been working and consulting in the software world.

Her specific focus has been in educational technology in the U.S. K-12 market. Currently she is VP of sales for a small start-up based in Iowa.

She is also a certified coach through iPEC and Gallup. She has found her passion in helping others become successful. Her children are busy and getting older!! Her daughter (16) is playing volleyball all over the midwest and her boys are 15 and 11. Life is good and busy! She loves seeing vixens when it works!

Liz Wiley Wiznerowicz: Blaire and her family are settled in Richmond. She spends her days managing the menagerie of her household: 2 teens, Eva and Miranda; 2 dogs, Sprocket and Digby; her grandmother, Molly; and lots of assorted houseguests, relatives, extra kids and friends. Earlier this year, she reunited with Christy Carl Allison and her family. Blaire also enjoyed a trip to Miami Beach, FL, with Melissa Butler Cicotello in April. In Aug., Blaire’s family just returned from their annual pilgrimage to Frankenmuth, MI. They enjoyed a week of beer, bratwurst and polka, and even learned to zip line.

Jera Niewoehner-Green: Jera and her husband Phillip welcomed their son Bodhi Kai to the world on Friday, Aug. 9. They are completely in love with their little nugget and excited about a lifetime of adventures. Jera will return to work as an assistant professor of community leadership at Ohio State in mid-October.

Sarah Elkins Ince: Loved attending our 20th Reunion. Thank-

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Evangeline Taylor ’00 organized the first American University Alumni Fair in Nicaragua with almost 2,000 attendees and represented SBC!

ful for class leadership team: Kelly Turney Gatzke, Donna Hoogland Harwood, Sarah Kingsley and this is my subversive lean on Devon Vasconcellos to make it official, too. I remain in Concord, NC with Asa (9) and husband Keith. Working on energizing the Charlotte alumnae club. Happy to host vixens who travel through. Recently hosted Deborah Lanham Bushek and Betsy Wilbun Ranson. Thrilled to have three students enrolled at SBC from Gray Stone where I am in my 6th year as college counselor. Two of my seniors have SBC as their top college this year.

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Marilen Sarian Crump 212 Rock Creek Court Yorktown, VA 23693 artinspiredme@gmail.com Evangeline Taylor: My family finished our assignment in Nicaragua. For work at the US Embassy, I coordinated the first American University Alumni Fair in Nicaragua by using over 30 alumni representing 25 universities to staff the booths, I represented SBC! There were almost 2,000 attendees! Now we are headed to Istanbul for our next assignment.

Angela Rodrigues Newman writes that her family said goodbye to beautiful Winterset, IA, and moved to Great Falls, MT, in May. Her husband, Paul, found a family friendly job so they are all looking forward to having him home each day. Crosby (8) loves the long days of summer and picking berries from their yard. Hannah (13) is loving her dance and art classes. Angela is excited to be homeschooling them both this coming year. They just returned from a road trip to UT to visit Rami Achterberg Heers!

They had the best time relaxing and watching the children play. The week was filled with delicious meals (made with fresh veggies from Rami’s garden), kayaking at Bear Lake and evening talks with wine. She can’t wait to return next year, and thanks to Rami for hosting them!

Megan Thomas Rowe loves spending time with other local Fredericksburg alumnae at their monthly wine night outings. She enjoyed her time with her daughter at reunion and enjoyed connecting with Anne Jones ’99, who is also a Fredericksburg alumna, at reunion. It was exciting to watch ’99 celebrate their 20th reunion. Megan had a great time at Sweet Work Weeks and seeing alumnae of all ages working together to enhance the beauty of the campus. In addition, she is overjoyed that Cynthia Plaugher ‘23 will be joining the sisterhood as an incoming freshman. Holla Holla!

Sarah Belanger Levinson, Anna Lundberg Baso and Dawn Martin visited Sarah Houston Kenning at her beautiful home in Albany, NY, in June. From there, they drove to the Adirondacks for a girls’ weekend in celebration of their 40th birthdays.

We enjoyed Lake Placid, hiking in the mountains, great food and drinks and spending time together, which was the best part of all.

This Spring I, Meredith Taylor Eads, was thrilled to celebrate the birth of Tia Trout Perez’s ’02 third child at her shower in her new home in Falls Church, VA. It was great to

catch up with Tamara Trout Murphy, Amy Mullen ’02 and Jee Park Pae ’02, while we celebrated Tia at the shower. Before the baby came, Tia and I also snuck in a road trip to Philadelphia on my 40th birthday in March to see Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz in concert — it was a hoot! I enjoyed spending time at Sweet Work Weeks for the third year in a row with Megan Thomas Rowe. We painted the heck out of first floor Dew, and enjoyed spending time with alumnae from so many other classes. SWW has quickly become our favorite Sweet Briar tradition. We’d love to see you there next year!

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Amy Mullen 2534 North Granada Street Arlington, VA 22207 amye.mullen@gmail.com Ashley Trantham Saunders has been busy traveling around North America for work and is looking forward to a 40th birthday vacation in Nov. Ashley recommends the following podcasts – “Up and Vanished,” “Best Case Worst Case” and “My Favorite Murder.”

Mariah McGill is living in the woods of Waitsfield, VT, with her husband and 8-year-old daughter Maisie. She is the director of the Early Childhood Leadership Institute at the Snelling Center for Government. The best book she’s read lately is “Spinning Silver” by Naomi Novik, an epic retelling of the story of Rumplestiltskin set in medieval Poland.

Alicia Markham Morris and her husband, David, welcomed a baby girl, Lillian Summersill on April 18, 2019. Lily joins her sister Alice and proud parents who live in Cary, NC, where Alicia is a history teacher at Cary Academy.

Liz Taylor Borntrager has been working in non-profit administration since her graduation from Sweet Briar in 2002. She shifted her career focus from arts to health in 2015 and has become an accomplished fundraiser in Cincinnati.

Liz is passionate about safeguarding women’s reproductive health care and is honored to serve as director of development for Planned Parent-

hood Southwest Ohio Region. “I feel privileged to work at a place that is protecting equitable opportunities for women,” Liz said. “The ability to plan if and when to become a parent has deep and lasting community impact on things like high school graduation rates, childhood poverty and maternal mortality.” When she’s not at work, Liz enjoys playing video games with her 8-year-old son or doing puzzles and coloring with her 4-year-old daughter. Liz and her husband just celebrated their 11th anniversary.

Liz Waring McCracken is living that mom/academic life this summer! She and her family had an epic trip to Japan in April, where they did All The Things, including a visit to a hedgehog café in Tokyo. Liz is looking forward to a beach vacation in a few weeks, in which she is planning to do None Of The Things, except sit in a chair with a cold beverage.

Her girls are 6 and 9, and are in the midst of learning piano and multiplication tables. Her husband Chris, is still being a doctor, when he is not learning guitar or juggling or renovating their house. They are happy as clams down in Boone, NC! Liz’s recent reads have been “The Cupcake Fairy” and “The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen.”

Rachel Roth Allred will begin her 13th year of teaching in Prince George’s County, MD, this fall. She is still teaching at Ridgecrest Elementary school in Hyattsville. This will be her sixth year at the school teaching 5th grade math and science.

Rachel will be embarking on a new adventure as co-sponsor of the science bowl team — they will begin practices in September and their match is in December. She and her husband Toby will be celebrating their 13th wedding anniversary in August. Last Christmas, Rachel’s family took her daughter and husband on their first trip to Disney World. Rachel and Toby’s daughter will be entering the 4th grade in the fall. In June, she became a Junior Girl Scout. This fall, Rachel will be entering her 3rd year as the troop cookie mom.

Stacey Armentrout Fallah writes that at the end of June her family took their annual vacation to Topsail Island, NC. The weather was perfect for the entire week

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Lindsay Keller Sullivan ’02 with husband, John, and sons Easton and Asher in Disneyland

Stacey Armentrout Fallah ’02 son helping my daughter build a sandcastle at the beach.

Meg Fronk Nice ’02 was married to Casey Ryan Nice on July 21, 2018.

The ceremony and reception took place in Orange County, VA, where the couple resides. In attendance were 2002 classmates: Dr. Michelle Dunn, Joanna Mullen, Amy Mullen and Ashley Trantham Saunders.

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and the ocean was gentle and calm pretty much every day! Their son Jackson got to participate in a shark study camp while there and daughter Emma learned the finer points of building sand castles ... and then knocking them down! July marked Stacy’s start as the parent representative on the advisory board for the preschool that Emma will be attending in the fall, something that Stacey still hasn’t come to terms with yet.

Amy Mullen is still working, freelancing and living the general life in Arlington, VA, with her husband Luke and son Bruno (5). She is planning a trip to New York in Sept. to see the Downton Abbey movie with Aja Grosvenor Stephens. Amy is currently reading the Agatha Raisin series by M.C. Beaton for the second time (counting down the days till book #30 hits shelves in November).

Aja Grosvenor Stephens reports that she’s decided to add barre classes to her mix of workouts, and it’s a 60-minute glimpse into hell, but maybe she’ll get Michelle Obama arms. These days, Aja mostly reads fiction featuring witches, fairies, or other supernatural beings, because

why not? She highly recommends the “Discovery of Witches” series (now a tv miniseries) and “Children of Blood and Bone” (the sequel comes out in fall 2019). On the non-fiction front, “The F*ck It Diet” by Caroline Dooner has been liberating on many fronts. She now shares donuts with her son Jace [mostly] guilt free. Aja looks forward to seeing Amy Mullen, Jee Yon Pae and Tia Trout-Perez over the summer.

Tia Trout-Perez is currently enjoying maternity leave. She will be heading back to work in Oct. Tia hasn’t had much time to read books recently, but over the past year enjoyed “The Goldfinch” and “The Nightingale.” She also recommends watching “Poldark.”

Mary Tassone Dunlevy and her daughters just finished a trip to RI and Cape Cod for their family reunion. Mary’s two girls, Ariana (9) and Lorien (5), had their first airplane ride and they loved it!

Lindsay Keller Sullivan is living it up in Highlands Ranch, CO, with her boy squad. Easton is 8 heading into 3rd grade, Asher is 4 heading into pre-K and loving husband, John, is continuing his work in web design.

Lindsay has taken a break from stage management to be a stay-at-home mom for the time being. Happy, healthy and good.

After 14 years, Joanna Mullen has finally... and I mean FINALLY moved out of the dump she called home to a nicer home in a nicer neighborhood. Although she and her mother will miss the convenience of the sketchy neighborhood bodega, you’ll be pleased to hear that there is a 7-Eleven in walking distance that’s

just as sketchy. Joanna is currently reading “Paperbacks from Hell” by Grady Hendrix.

Brook Tucker Buck and her husband Trey moved back to Raleigh last summer and are starting to feel a little more settled. For Memorial Day, they went to Richmond to get together with Lori Smith Nilan and Denise McDonald Gentry. Their sons played together and it was a lot of fun! Brook and family recently got back from a much needed vacation to the Balearic Island of Menorca, Spain. It was beautiful and they loved the island safari! The wedding they attended was gorgeous and Trey played cricket! This August, Brook will be getting together with Lori Smith Nilan, Maria Thacker Goethe, Ashley Johnston McGee ’03 and Kelly Monical Goossens for a girls trip to Asheville, NC. Jenn McDonaugh Swiatek is finally sending in an update! She and her husband Joe (married in 2005) are currently living in Baltimore and she is enjoying her work as a digital forensic analyst with Booz Allen Hamilton. She is a mentor for Booz Allen’s “Women in STEM” interns and was excited to return to Sweet Briar for a career fair in November.

She has visited with Paula Brice, Jaime Henna and Prof. Raina Robeva during recent work trips to NC and Charlottesville. Jenn loves distance running and volunteering with Back on My Feet, an organization that uses running as a catalyst to build community and empower individuals experiencing homelessness and fighting addiction. The national nonprofit has 13 chapters across the United States and Jenn is currently

Alicia Markham Morris ’02 and her husband, David, welcomed a baby girl, Lillian Summersill, on April 18, 2019.

the leader of a Baltimore team which serves military veterans living in a residential treatment facility. She hopes all of her Vixen sisters are doing well!

Meg Fronk Nice and her husband Casey are enjoying the newlywed life. This past year they both accepted new jobs: Meg is an elementary program specialist and Casey is an assistant principal in King George County, Va. They are very happy to be employed in the same school district and enjoy being career educators. In their spare time, they love volunteering at a local animal shelter and have a special place in their hearts for pit-bulls.

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Nicole Crowder 11003 Howitzer Drive Fredericksburg, VA 22408 swtnic@gmail.com Kristin Farris Bergquist: I spent a fabulous week walking all over Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM, with Ann Gateley ’70. We met up with alums Betty Rau Santandrea ’70 and Megan Lyon ’80 for lunches while there.

Anne Benham Willson ’04 and Grace Farnsworth Loughhead ’04 spent time together with their children this January in Lexington, VA.

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Virginia “Ginny” Wood Susi 2929 Dorell Ave Orlando, FL 32814 ginnysusi@gmail.com Camille Simmons Smalling and her husband were thrilled to welcome a new baby girl on Christmas Eve 2018. They were also excited to catch up with Khadine Fisher during the festive season.

Autum MatysekSnyder Fish’s oldest Xavier turned 10, loves swimming and playing the trombone, Daisy, her daughter, is fierce and finishing up her last t-ball season and cannot wait to play softball. In April, Autum met up with Merri Morris Park, Megan Owens Thompson and Sarah Lindsey in Williamsburg for an amazing girls’ weekend. She is happy to report she and Jeremiah are doing great and are enjoying running around with their children and traveling whenever able.

Kelly Gibbons Schell added another sweet addition to her family.

Asher Gibbons Schell was born on March 7, 2019. He surprised them by coming a few weeks before big brother Rowan’s first birthday.

Erin Coleman and Lizzie moved this year to a new apartment in the greater LA area, closer to Lizzie’s work. It came with a guest room open to all visiting Sweet Briar girls!

She’s excited to announce that Lizzie has been staffed as a writer on ABC’s ‘Blackish.’ Erin had fun performing this year at the San Francisco Sketchfest and the Chicago Funny Women Festival. She continues to teach and coach at several studios/

theaters around Los Angeles. Her dogs are crushing it on all levels.

Anne Benham Willson and David celebrated 14 years of marriage in June. They have three children, Maggie (10), Ellie (8) and Gus (6).

After being in college coaching for 14 years, David accepted the varsity basketball coaching position at his high school alma mater, Memphis University School, in Memphis, TN. Their family is grateful to be moving closer to family in both Memphis and Texas. She spent some time with the great and good Grace Farnsworth Loughhead and family in January.

Ginny Wood Susi is still shocked she’s married and living in Orlando with her 3 kids and 2 tiny nincompoops of dogs. She edited class notes on her phone while her husband drives to Maine for the month of July. She’s looking forward to seeing Breanne Liebering Wyman tomorrow while she’s in the DC metro area.

Jozanne Summerville is gaily living her life in DC; Dancing, traveling and working. She’s enjoying my new role as Auntie JoJo Extraordinary.

Recently got a postcard from the lovely Stephanie Gleason while she was at reunion.

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Nicki Brandt Turner and Brian bought an old farmhouse in Loveland, CO, where they live with nu-

merous chickens, ducks and their rescue dog Gus. Nicki is still working for the National Park Service but was able to take some time off to explore parts of southern Thailand this spring. The Turners will be welcoming their first little on in early March 2020.

Jodie Kavanah Weber currently lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and 3-year-old son. This past spring, she was promoted to her dream position as regional asset protection leader with CarMax. It’s been an adventure traveling around the country learning her new role!

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Emily N. Olson 5238 Lake Shore Drive Waco, Texas 76710 emilynicoleolson@gmail.com Megan Meighan Carlson and her husband, Capt. Jon Elliott Carlson recently celebrated the baptism of their daughter, Sally Marine Carlson at St. Mary’s Church in Balboa, Panama and also celebrated her first birthday on July 16. They are renovating a house in the Panama Canal Zone and hope to be living in it within a year and look forward to having Sweet Briar visitors! As always, please reach out if you are planning a trip to Panama!

Heidi Trude will be starting a new job in Aug. 2019 as the French teacher at Loudoun Valley High School in Purcellville, VA. She’s looking forward to this opportunity and the changes it brings. Heidi spent the summer presenting at state and national conferences. This fall, Heidi will present at ACTFL, the premier convention for world language educators, in DC. Erica Kennedy McCallie is celebrating 11 years at the Tennessee Valley Authority as a senior benchmarking and enterprise performance analyst. She loves giving back to the community and is involved in many volunteer activities educating young people about careers in engineering and the electric utility industry in the Chattanooga area. She is also involved in the mentoring and intern program for financial services for recent college graduates, and she led the electrical engineering activity table at a TVA sponsored event for

the Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy. Erica also serves as the committee outreach chair for the Chattanooga chapter of the Society for Women Engineers (since Sept.

2018) and recently received the Exceptional Leadership Award for leadership duties above and beyond expectations of duties as the committee chair.

Maggie Saylor Patrick wrote, “Last September I visited campus and was so amazed at the change.

For the first time since 2015, it felt like OUR Sweet Briar again — maybe even better. President Woo is incredible, and the new plan is going really well.” Meanwhile, she started a new job. Maggie changed careers and left fundraising to be an organizational researcher for Korn Ferry. In May she had a hysterectomy and was so grateful to Natalie Pye, who came for a week to be her caretaker. She writes, “Miss you all lots and hope to see you soon!”

Whitney Wheeler is currently a property manager with FCA Management, LLC at Gateway West Uptown Flats in Charlotte, NC. In March, Morgan Roach Viña transitioned from the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in NYC to the Pentagon as chief of staff for international security at the Department of Defense. Morgan, her husband, Stephen, and their corgi, Jackson, settled in Old Town Alexandria, VA. and are loving their new home. When she’s not dreaming up overly ambitious home improvement projects and hosting friends, including Elizabeth Kilgallin ’14, Morgan and Stephen make an effort to beat the Northern VA, hustle and get out of town (Note: McCall, Idaho is quickly becoming the worst kept secret). In March, Morgan spoke at the Hoover Institute’s annual board meeting, in June, she spoke at the National Conference for the Network of Enlightened Women on women in national security, and in July she was a featured guest lecturer on political management at George Washington University. Recently, Morgan enjoyed dinner with Barbara Denison ’60 at the Congressional Country Club.

This spring Laura Schaefer Grace and family welcomed Elizabeth (Ellie) Grace to the world and she came home in June. Meanwhile,

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her daughter, Maisie, is ready for kindergarten. When Laura heads back to work, she will continue to guide the Oregon National Primate Research Center’s participation in the My Green Lab certification program.

She says, “Our campus will renew its Green Business Award and, as part of that, I’ll be leading our first effort to complete a campus-wide GHG emission inventory. Finally, as a relatively new Sustainability Associate through ISSP, I will be preparing for the next step and taking my CSP exam — wish me luck!”

Emily Wiley continues to live and work in NYC and horses are still a big part of her life. In May she and a friend checked a big one off her bucket list and went on a riding holiday in Scotland. After spending two days exploring Edinburgh, they took a train up to Inverness, had a quick look for Nessie and then continued to the northeast coast where they met up with Highlands Unbridled who were their guides for the next seven days. She writes, “We rode from the east coast to the west coast along a northern route, covering 130 miles on horseback. We got to gallop on the beach and saw amazing scenery and views while riding through the mountains of the highlands. We stayed at remote hotels, including the most remote inn on mainland Britain. I made sure I got a picture in a Sweet Briar shirt so I could share it with everyone. I highly recommend the trip, feel free to contact me for details!” Emily was also recently elected Master of Fox Hounds at her fox hunt, Windy Hollow Hunt, where she has been riding her whole life.

Danielle Briggs-Hansen moved to Olympia, WA, in March, got engaged to Jesse Chase in April and will be getting married on Sept. 1!

I, Emily Olson, just finished up my 5th and final year of high school theatre teaching and directing. It was a busy but exciting year. In April I traveled to VA, on a whirlwind college tour with my youngest sister, Valerie. We stopped at Sweet Briar, of course, and it was wonderful! In June I traveled to Lacey, WA, for the wedding of Sarah Kindschuh to Kyle Garrison. It was beautiful!

After the wedding, I traveled down to Portland, OR, where it was great to catch up with two classmates,

Kimberley Battad and Rebekah McSpadden Burger over dinner.

I then began a road-trip down the Pacific Coast Highway from Cannon Beach, OR, to Fort Bragg, CA, with a friend. It was a fabulous trip!

In July I packed up and moved to Waco, TX, where I am thrilled to be starting an M.F.A. program in theatre directing at Baylor University in August. I look forward to a visit from Eleanor O’Connor in my new home this fall. If anyone else is traveling to or through Waco, feel free to reach out!

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Jessica Wilson 122 Berkshire Pl. Lynchburg, VA 24502 henson08@sbc.edu Lucy Sutherland Knaus has been living and working in NYC since graduation, using her Economics degree as VP of sales and production for Sweet Romeo and Theo and Spence, a sweater and knit top womenswear line. She is still best friends with Natasha Bullard who is also living and working in NYC in Marketing. She currently mentors FIT students, and has interns throughout the year. She would be happy to speak with any current or former students interested in a career in fashion! Go Bums!

Caroline Byrd Dozier and husband, Blake (HS-C ’05) celebrated 10 years of marriage this past year and welcomed their 4th child, David Blake Dozier.

Alyson Napier Oseguera and Mario Oseguera wed on June 23, 2018, in Chase City, Virginia.

Virginia Moncure Jamerson is excited to announce that their family is moving back to Richmond, VA after 6 years of being in Washington, D.C. They also welcomed their first child, George, a year ago.

Rebecca Penny Humphrey is still living in Grand Rapids, MI, with her husband and daughter, Laurel Anne Humphrey (15 months).

Jessica Wilson is still living in Lynchburg, VA, with her husband Mike and 3 children Michael (9), Adalaide (5) and Rosalie (4). She runs her online business from home and is excited to be returning to teaching this coming year.

2009

Jenny Walkiewicz Dill 13938 SW Crist Court Tigard, OR 97223 Jenny.Dill11@gmail.com Laura Cromwell is still living in Denver and working for a digital marketing agency which she loves. She is currently in the throes of her MBA program and trying to survive accounting and finance. She had an absolute blast at our 10-year reunion, reconnecting with the incredible class of ’09 and being back at the Briar. No matter how much time passes, it still feels like home!

Heather Theunissen Gregg and her husband, Bradford, recently moved to Leesburg, VA, in the heart of wine and horse country. While they both still work near Washington, D.C. (and the commute can be a doozy), they enjoy coming home to a community that is walking distance from local shops, farmers’ markets, festivals and breweries! Heather still works as an account/project manager at Fathom Creative full-time, teaches horseback riding lessons part-time and promotes safer beauty (for people and the environment!) as a Beautycounter consultant parttime! For fun, Heather dabbles in the photography world and hopes to get into lifestyle photography in Northern VA in the future. Heather and Bradford will be welcoming their first child into the world, baby boy Gregg, in Oct. 2019. They are super excited for this new season and can’t wait for all that is to come!

In the meantime, Heather and Bradford have been taking advantage of long-weekends and road-trips with their 9.5 month-old Bernese Mountain Dog, Bubba, up and down the east coast from NC to ME, visiting friends along the way. They even went on an awesome babymoon to multiple national parks out west in NV, UT and AZ! Kimberly Butterfield met up with class mate Lucy Hankinson in Dakar, Senegal in June while Kim was visiting for work. She had dinner with Lucy and her husband, Konrad, and enjoyed learning about their adventures in West Africa.

Maggie Nicholson was recently accepted to Georgia Tech’s Master of City and Regional Planning

Alyson Napier Oseguera ’08 and Mario wed on June 23, 2018, in Chase City, VA.

program and will begin classes in fall 2019. Her studies will focus on urban design, specifically the sustainability impacts of public green space within the urban environment, and how the melding of architecture and vegetation can create healthier, happier urban places. This will compliment her current master’s work in Georgia State University’s historic preservation program for which she traveled to Cuba in May for a study abroad course focused on the economic impact of heritage tourism to the island as well as its sustainability, resiliency and urban agriculture initiatives. Maggie recently moved to Chamblee, GA, and is in the midst of a historic home renovation.

Elizabeth Zuckerman married Ned Kolpan on June 29 in Philadelphia, PA. Caitlin Nealon ‘10, her PnP sister, officiated the wedding.

Julia Patt, Jessica Baker and Cheryl Seaver, who somehow survived living with Liz senior year, were bridesmaids in the wedding. They valiantly rushed her to the indoor venue just before it started to rain!

Lara Salyer D’Antonio graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School in May with a master’s in Healthcare Delivery Science. She and her husband, Steven D’Antonio (HS-C ’07), will be celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary in Oct. They are expecting their 3rd baby in early fall!

I, Jenny Walkiewicz Dill, have been keeping busy chasing our 3.5-year-old daughter, Alexa, and 2-year-old German Shepherd, Emma, around! This spring I was blessed to enjoy family trips to Carmel, CA, Wayzata, MN and the Big Island of Hawaii. Over Memorial Day weekend, I spent an amazing three days in Scottsdale, AZ, with Kathryn Brock Hankinson and Alison Sims Courtney. As I’m sure most of my Sweet Briar sisters will agree, no matter how much time passes these friendships never fade.

So lucky to still have these incredible women in my life!

2010

Rosalie Morgan Louis 403 Whitney Ave. New Haven, CT 06511 Rosalielouis02@gmail.com

sel H-SC ‘08 on May 21, 2019, in Carsix, France. In attendance from Sweet Briar were Lindsay Arnett ‘12, Taylor Ryan, Andria Pasquel, Rosalie Morgan Louis, Lindsay Arnold and Lindsey Davis Aurigemma.

Natasha and Matt live in Minneapolis, MN, where she works for 3M and he works for Allina Health.

Lindsey Davis Aurigemma married Erik Aurigemma on May 14, 2019, in a private ceremony in Mallorca, Spain. They are enjoying married life and recently purchased a house in Brooklyn, NY. Katie Dodge Taylor just welcomed twin girls! Katie is already planning 2 spots for Sweet Briar Class of 2040. She is very excited to have added to her family.

Kirsten Miller started a new job with Dermatology Associates of Virginia, and is looking into getting her LPN or RN. She is still in Richmond and enjoying it very much.

Cherly Seaver ’09 (left), Jessica Baker ’09 (second from left) and Julia Patt ’09 (third from left) were bridesmaids in the wedding of Elizabeth Zuckerman ’09 to Ned Kolpan on June 29.

2011

Heather Marianne McTague 1065 Brennan Drive Warminster, PA 18974 HMMcTague@gmail.com Ebie Baker Starling married Jason Starling on May 4, 2019. Amelia McDaniel ‘94, Virginia Edahl Molan ‘10, Maggie Balderston and Nell Malbon were in attendance.

Ebie currently works with Amelia at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, where so many amazing Sweet Briar women are members!

2012

Carol Ferguson 978 Ravine Drive Villa Hills, KY 41017 ferguson12@sbc.edu

Natasha Haugerud Boraas married Matthew Stanley Van Don-

Eleanor Bryant moved from Alaska to Miami to work as a di-

Natasha Haugerud Boraas married Matthew Stanley Van Donsel (HS-C ’08) on May 21, 2019. In attendance from Sweet Briar were Lindsay Arnett ’12, Taylor Ryan ’10, Andria Pasquel ’10, Rosalie Louis ’10, Lindsay Arnold ’10 and Lindsey Davis Aurigemma ’10.

Lindsey Davis Aurigemma ’10 married Erik Aurigemma on May 14, 2019.

rector for global expeditionary ships at Silversea. Eleanor runs and owns an Airbnb in Savannah, GA, and is currently heading to Monaco and Singapore for extended work travel.

She recently worked expeditions in Antarctica and Iceland, and hit her 50th country visited this year! She also accidentally adopted the most perfect dog in the world, HRH Ethel. Eleanor still kayaks multi-days in Alaska and Mexico frequently, does stand-up comedy and eats as many empanadas as possible.

Emily Prince defended her dissertation this June as part of her clinical and developmental psychology Ph.D. at the University of Miami.

She is now leaving Miami after 5 years to complete a clinical psychology internship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There, her primary rotation will be at the Carolina Institute of Developmental Disabilities.

Caroline Heltzel Overstreet and her husband, Frank, have recent-

Ellie Bryant ’12 operating zodiac in Antarctica

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Heather Theunissen Gregg ’09 with her husband Bradford.

Caitlin Nealon ’10 (center) officiated the wedding of Elizabeth Zuckerman ’09 (left) to Ned Kolpanon June 29 in Philadelphia, PA. Caitlin and Elizabeth were PnP sisters at Sweet Briar!

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Victoria Ramsey ’13 with husband, Drew, holding their newborn daughter Eleanor

ly PCSed to Fort Stewart/Savannah, GA, for (at least) the next 2.5-3 years.

Otherwise, nothing too new to share on her end! She’ll be looking for employment and maintaining her ‘Silent Rank’ while running ‘Household 6’ — Ha! If you’re passing through the Savannah area, be sure to let her know!

2013

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I am so happy to write that Ryan Sharpe and I, Jackie Montero-Sharpe were married on June 22, 2019, at Sweet Briar College in the Memorial Chapel. Bridesmaids were Emma Dittoe, Julie Moorhead Devine, Karen Montero (sister of the bride), Jessica Vasquez, Lee Grove and Julie Dopheide Robinson. A huge thank you to everyone at Sweet Briar who made our day remarkable.

Ryan and I have also bought a house in Goochland County and are enjoying being back in Central Virginia.

Additionally, I have accepted the position of director of international enrollment at Fork Union Military Academy.

Dani Humphrey Daniels writes that “Lady Dani and Lord Tim” adopted 2 kittens in October 2018.

“Their names are Arya and Sansa of #HouseDaniels. Fall is coming.”

Cristina Thomas accepted a position as an assistant attorney general for the State of Connecticut in March of 2018. She works in the child protection unit. She and her fiancé are getting married on Aug. 24, 2019, at Cristina’s childhood home

Cody Ann Gross ’13 welcomes home husband from a deployment with 2-month-old daughter Aven and 1-year-old daughter Clover.

Jackie Montero ’13 and Ryan Sharpe were married on June 22, 2019, at Sweet Briar College. Bridesmaids were (l-r) Emma Dittoe, Julie Moorhead Devine ’13, Karen Montero (sister of the bride), Jessica Vasquez, Lee Grove ’13 and Julie Dopheide Robinson ’13.

in East Haddam, CT. They bought a Sarah Cooper and Courtney Kockhouse last June where they live with ler Jefferson joined Allie’s family and their 2 rescue puppies named Cato friends to help celebrate at her baby and Flutie, a cat named Hamilton shower in May — love an excuse to and a bunny named Dil Pickle. get together with great friends! After Scarlett Leigh Reel is teaching a difficult delivery, mom and dad are and training at her horse farm, Mag- loving their new normal, and the dog nolia Lane Farm, operating 2 turkey and cat have warmed up to the idea houses and working as an agronomist too!

Arielle Sperrazza Morgan has for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

She and husband Clint and their 5 had lots of changes this year. She got dogs are expecting our first child in married on June 15 in Warrenton, VA. “My husband and I bought a September 2019.

Victoria Mills Ramsey lives in house in Manassas, VA. I will now be Ryan Sharpe and Jackie Monteroher hometown of Amherst, VA, with teaching in Fauquier County Schools Sharpe ’13, in front of the Sweet spouse of 6 years, Drew Ramsey. as a special education teacher.”

Briar bell tower She has her MBA from the University of Lynchburg and is a manager at Genworth Financial. She enjoys volunteering at her local elementary school’s Girls on the Run program as head coach. She and her husband have welcomed their newest addition to the family, Eleanor Grace Ramsey, who was born on May 2, 2019.

Kate Macklin graduated in May with her MS in parks, recreation and tourism from the University of Utah.

She recently moved to CO where she works for the Colorado Outward Bound School and Colorado College Allie Raifsnider ’15 and Taylor Eudy welcomed Bennett Hudson Eudy on June 24.

Outdoor Education.

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Lea Gray 2606 Hanover Ave Apt 2 Richmond, VA 23220-3540 graylm27@gmail.com Allie Raifsnider and longtime boyfriend Taylor are living just outside Philadelphia and welcomed their first baby boy, Bennett Hudson Eudy, into the world in June. Chloe Bandas,

Chloe Bandas, Allie Raifsnider, Sarah Cooper and Courtney (Kockler) Jefferson ’15 came together over Memorial Day weekend 2019 to celebrate Allie’s baby shower.

Verena Joerger ’15, Sarah Yarber ’15 and Christina Zaranka ’15 joined Kaitlin Schaal ’14 in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, on May 24, 2019, to celebrate her wedding to Gilles Pütz.

DONOR HONOR ROLL

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS 2018-2019 • JULY 1, 2018–JUNE 30, 2019 The Visionary Society recognizes and honors our largest donors with gifts in one year totaling $1,000,000 or more.

The Honorable and Mrs. William Lee Lyons Brown, Jr. (Alice Cary Farmer Brown ’59) Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Fitzpatrick III (Kelley Manderson Fitzpatrick ’85) Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Griffin (Elizabeth Pearson Griffin ’62) Keenan Colton Kelsey ’66 Luke 6:38 Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Olan Mills II (Norma Patteson Mills ’60) Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Mitchell (Virginia Cates Mitchell ’63) Mr. and Mrs. Heinz K. Simon (Allison Stemmons Simon ’63) Nan Stuart ’75

MONUMENT SOCIETY

The Monument Society recognizes and honors donors with gifts in one year totaling $500,000-$999,999.

DELL SOCIETY

COLUMN SOCIETY

Anonymous Charla Borchers-Leon ’81 Mrs. Caroline Casey Brandt ’49 Estate of Ruth Simpson Carrington ’21* Anne Taylor Quarles Doolittle ’78 Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Winborne Leigh Hamlin ’58 Martha C. Holland ’72 Holland-Iribe Family Foundation Jessie Ball duPont Fund Edward J. Kelly III Estate of Nanci Hay Mahoney ’54* Tracy Scheriff-Muser Stemmons Foundation The Hadley and Marion Stuart Foundation Jamie L. Tokich Doctors Glenn and Gilberte Van Treese* W. L. Lyons Brown, Jr. Charitable Foundation Claude Becker Wasserstein ’82

Martin S. Brown* Donna Pearson Josey Chapman ’64 Community Enterprises, Inc. Laura W. Evans ’79 Sally Mott Freeman ’76 Sarah Dabbs Fryer ’72 Gay Hart Gaines ’59 Allison Roberts Greene ’81 Kathryn Trogdon Hightower ’67 Josey Foundation Katherine W. Bienvenu Charitable Trust The Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Jeanne Morin Kay Parham Picha ’70 Estate of Gail Garner Resch ’72* Roller-Bottimore Foundation Letitia Sanders ’62 Mr. Albert H. Small Stephanie Dance Tancredi ’90 Mildred Newman Thayer ’61 The Atticus Trust Georgene M. Vairo ’72 Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Elizabeth C. Walbridge ’72 Charlotte Heuer Watts ’57

The Dell Society recognizes and honors donors with gifts in one year totaling $100,000-$499,999.

Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, Inc. Mills Fund at the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, Inc.

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

The Column Society recognizes and honors donors with gifts in one year totaling $50,000-$99,999.

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DONOR HONOR ROLL FOUNTAIN SOCIETY

The Fountain Society recognizes and honors donors with gifts in one year totaling $7,500-$49,999.

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The Al Stroobants Foundation Margaret Ryan Ale ’76 Anonymous (4) C’Anne Anderson ’68 Sarah G. Babcock ’83 Bama Rags Recordings, LLC Ann Ritchey Baruch ’62 Mary Brush Bass ’62 Leslie Basten and David D. Basten Beryl Bergquist ’71 Sarah Porter Boehmler ’65 Emily Black Burns ’01 The Honorable and Mrs. William J. Cabaniss, Jr. (Catherine Caldwell Cabaniss ’61) Charles L. and Carter D. McDowell Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation for a Greater Richmond Mr. Dixon Wallace Christian Kate Roy Massie Christian ’64 Clara Weiss Fund Component Fund of the Community Foundation for a Greater Richmond advised by Mr. and Mrs. Clarke H. Crenshaw Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham Bonnie Cord ’66 Cord Charitable Foundation Carol Tanner Cover ’43 The Covington Family Fund of the Community Foundation for a Greater Richmond Lucy H. Coyle ’79 Flora Cameron Crichton ’46* Anne Frothingham Cross ’66 Susan Andrews Cruess ’79 Laura L. Crum ’79 Betty Rae Sivalls Davis ’58 Estate of August F. Davis* (Virginia Cummings Davis ’42*) Dixon W. and Kate Roy M. Christian Fund of the Community Foundation for a Greater Richmond Jane R. Dure ’82 Estate of Henrianne Early ’13* Lucy Boyd Lemon Edmunds ’63 Heather Colson Ewing ’90 Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Flora Cameron Foundation Florence S. and William J. Cabaniss Advised Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham Carol McMurtry Fowler ’57

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Frances and John Morse Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Frank and Mary Roach Fund of the Community Foundation for a Greater Richmond Martha Stewart Fruehauf ’80 Caroline Chobot Garner ’54 Eileen P. Gebrian ’72 Louise Jones Geddes ’84 Susan Stephens Geyer ’74 Maj. Gen. L. H. Ginn III H’55 (Kathleen Button Ginn ’55*) Robert L. Gipson Sarah Giddens Glenday ’69 Ann Martin Gonya ’85 Ann Winfree Gooch ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Gooch Greater Washington Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Carson Geddes Greene Claire Dennison Griffith ’80 and Luther T. Griffith Mary Sutherland Gwinn ’65 D. Maybank Hagood Hampton Roads Community Foundation Cassandra Streett Hamrick ’66 Mary Elizabeth Hannah ’62 Adelaide H. Hapala Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Harlow The Harrison Foundation Ashton Williams Harrison ’75 Eleanor Frank Hazard ’81 Katherine A. Hearn ’85 Estate of Dorothy Compton Marks Herbruck ’51* Sandra G. Herring ’74 Katharine Pauley Hickok ’72 Ann Ramsey Hill ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Leverett Hubbard, Jr. John and Sarah Freeman Foundation Lucy Kiker Jones ’43* Judith Haskell Brewer Fund of the Community Foundation for a Greater Richmond Judy W. Sargent Gift Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Jane Johnson Kent ’48 Jo Ann Soderquist Kramer ’64 Helen Murchison Lane ’46 Laurel Charitable Trust Deirdre A. Leland ’68 Elizabeth Wray Longino ’78 and G. George Longino III Luther and Claire Griffith Foundation Susan Jahn Mancini ’64 Marie G. Dennett Foundation

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Mary E. Hannah Charitable Gift Fund of TIAA Charitable Inc Antonia Bredin Massie ’77 Cornelia Long Matson ’58 Matthew & Genevieve Mezzanotte Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee Ashley Harper Matthews ’96 and Dave Matthews McNair Currie Maxwell ’63 Gay Reddig Mayl ’55 Mary Lee McGinnis McClain ’54 Margaret Graves McClung ’53 Estate of Aimee Des Pland McGirt ’47* Rebecca Towill McNair ’60 Margot Saur Meyer ’60 Makanah Dunham Morriss ’66 Frances Kirven Morse ’68 Mountain Laurel Foundation Gillian Munson Munson White Family Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Jane W. Nelson ’66 Newcastle Foundation Norfolk Southern Foundation Cynthia Wilson Ottaway ’57 Elizabeth Rowland Overmyer Mary Hamilton Parsons ’78 William M. Passano, Jr. H’55 (Helen Addington Passano ’55*) Joanne Holbrook Patton ’52 Stanley F. and Dorothy Pauley The Pauley Family Foundation Perkins-Prothro Foundation Charlotte Prothro Philbin ’95 Susan B. Piepho The Piepho Charitable Fund of Vanguard Charitable Katherine Irene Polevitzky ’93 Elizabeth Dykes Pope ’83 Patricia P. Pusey ’60 Louise Weston Rainey ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Robert McElwee Rainey Ann Wesley Ramsey ’75 Bettie Katherine Arnold Reed ’64 Estate of Lucy Giles Richey ’61* Elizabeth Beltz Rowe ’48 Mason Bennett Rummel ’83 Judith Welton Sargent ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Whitney G. Saunders (Ellen Harrison Saunders ’75) Sweet Briar College Alumnae Club of Atlanta Cecil Collins Scanlan ’63 Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Marshall Metcalf Seymour ’64

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BOXWOOD CIRCLE SOCIETY

The Boxwood Circle Society, Sweet Briar’s oldest gift society, recognizes and honors donors with gifts in one year totaling $2,500-$7,499.

Anne Ellice Adam ’62 Leslie Carson Albizzatti ’90 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Alford, Jr. (Courtney Blair Banton Alford ’87) Kristy Winstead Anderson ’98 Anonymous (2) Victoria Leigh Archer ’81 Jan Huguenin Assmus ’69

Barbara Gracey Backer ’71 Sally Twedell Bagley ’67 Bank of The James Brenda Muhlinghaus Barger ’65 Nella Gray Barkley ’55 Victoria Bates ’74 Jane Roulston Beaver ’62 Colleen Bradley Bell ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carlyle Benjamin Bryan Alphin Bente ’69 Kristin Farris Bergquist ’03 Betty Gill Ware Charitable Trust, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Drusilla Hall Bishop ’78 Clare Newman Blanchard ’60 Blanchette Chappell Maier and Frank H. Maier, Jr. Fund of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Elizabeth Rodgers Boyd ’84 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Boylston Boylston Family Fund of Coastal Community Foundation of SC Amy Gibbs Brown ’99 Antoinette Christian Brown ’78 Mary Lanman Brown ’50 Rosamond Sample Brown ’64 The Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust Margaret Price Bruno ’83 Ethel Ogden Burwell ’58 Cathy and Dennis Foose Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Carla Pellegrino Cabot ’84 L. Clay Camp, Jr. Ann Sheldon Campbell ’51 Suzanne Jones Cansler ’63 Rew Price Carne ’59 Eugenie Carr ’68 Carrie S. Camp Foundation, Inc. Georgia Graham Carroll ’66 Elizabeth Dickson Frenzel Casalini ’82 Heather L. C. Aspinwall Chiles ’95 Mr. and Mrs. F. Hudnall Christopher, Jr. (Claire Cannon ’58) Glenys Dyer Church ’73 Mara Wegerski Ciciarelli ’03 Nan Robertson Clarke ’73 Jeannette Singleton Cloyd ’75 Virginia Upchurch Collier ’72 The Comegys Bight Charitable Foundation Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Deborah Carroll Conery ’49 Deidre S. Conley ’72

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Connie Burwell White and William W. White Foundation Nancy Webb Corkery ’81 Jane Ellis Covington ’60 Ann Kiley Crenshaw ’76 Nannette McBurney Crowdus ’57 Thomas I. Crowell (Mary Wheat Crowell ’42*) Scheline H. Crutchfield Jane McKenzie Davis ’03 Christine Witcover Dean ’68 Janet Myers Deans ’77 Direxa Dick Dearie ’67 Virginia S. deBuys ’64 Stephen Neal Dennis Anne Kinsey Dinan ’68 Alice Warner Donaghy ’62 The Dorothy Kopmeier Vallier Foundation Dianne Hayes Doss ’93 Diana Muldaur Dozier ’60 Alison Burnett Dunn ’98 Putnam Mundy Ebinger ’70 Martha Meehan Elgar ’67 Debra A. Elkins ’93 Ellen Mitchell Redd Foundation Wendy Worthen Elliott ’79 David Ellis Helen Scribner Euston ’65 Max G. Fink Janna Staley Fitzgerald ’61 Anne Riordan Flaherty ’78 Cathy Patton Foose ’78 Four G’s Charitable Trust Mary Carter Frackelton ’72 Mary Frank Jane Hutcherson Frierson ’74 Natalie Roberts Funk ’66 Mrs. Judith F. Gager* and Mr. Forrest L. Gager, Jr. Heather MacLeod Gale ’75 Virginia Del Greco Galgano ’64 Michele A. Gargano ’88 Ann Gateley ’70 Mary Ware Gibson ’83 Mark Whitney Gilkey Suzanne Lockley Glad ’51 The Glenridge Charitable Foundation, Inc. Carol Goodman Jane Goodridge ’63 Valerie Gordon-Johnson ’74 Michelle Lennane Gorman ’89 Karen Greer Goss ’89 Gracey Stoddard Family Fund of Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Patricia Paterson Graham ’79 Mary Pederson Grum ’65

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R. Anne Pankoski Sherman ’96 Jane Reeb Short ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Smiley Southwestern Energy Elynor Neblett Stephens ’57* Mary Lane Bryan Sullivan ’58 Grace E. Suttle ’60 Christina A. Svoboda ’84 Marianne Oliveri Svoboda ’60 TIAA Charitable Inc Tianaderrah Foundation Teresa Pike Tomlinson ’87 Gail Rothrock Trozzo ’64 Sally Gipson Tully ’69 Anne Hinshaw Vanderweil ’68 Vanguard Charitable The Wade H. and Teresa Pike Tomlinson Fund, a component fund of the Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Marion F. Walker ’72 Judith Atkins Wall ’61 Katherine G. Warner ’95 Betty S. Weiss Wells Fargo & Co Hedi Haug White ’64 Wendelin A. White ’74 William M. Bird & Co., Inc. Endowment of Coastal Community Foundation of SC The William and Salomé Scanlan Foundation Winnie and Davis Hamlin Gift Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Ariana Jones Wittke ’46 Woodland Foundation Cecilia Kirby Wraase ’74 Wraase Family Foundation of Greater Washington Community Foundation Susan Snodgrass Wynne ’72 Wynne Family Fund of Hampton Roads Community Foundation

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H. Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin The H. Dallon Weathers Family Fund of Coastal Community Foundation of SC Mary Elmore Harrell ’64 Elizabeth Trueheart Harris ’49 Caroline Camp Harrison ’07 Karen J. Hartnett ’70 Laurel Lea Harvey ’90 Martha Mattern Harvey ’64 Diane Hatch ’64* Alison Huang and Jonathan Howe Beverley Crispin Heffernan ’75 Susan Hemphill Kathryn Barnes Hendricks ’70 Jacqueline Geets Henry ’92 The Henry Foundation Henry Laird Smith Foundation Anne Day Herrmann ’64 Jessica M. Hiveley ’97 Renate Weickert Hixon ’60 Ethel Ann Holladay ’83 Janet Storey Honick ’73 Lesley Bissell Hoopes ’68 Kathy Jackson Howe ’78 Jing Wang Huang ’68 Mary Jane Schroder Oliver Hubbard ’62 Carol Hays Hunley ’81 Ms. Elizabeth Hunter Mary Pope Maybank Hutson ’83 IBM International Foundation Jane Frierson Charitable Giving Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Elizabeth Washabaugh Jarvis ’75 The Jill Moses Kohlmann/Jennifer Bach Rosen Fund of The Greater New Orleans Foundation John S. and Katharine W. Orton Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Grace Butler Johnson ’66 Ann Thrash Jones ’78 Deborah H. Jones ’84 Phyllis Watt Jordan ’80 Mary A. Kelley ’70 Mrs. Janet Kemp Jean Felty Kenny ’53 Margaret Waters Keriakos ’67 Kathleen S. Kilpatrick ’74 Holly Caswell King ’92 and David King Sally Old Kitchin ’76 Ann Stuart McKie Kling ’74 Cynthia Pierce Kohlenberger ’84

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Florence Baldwin Langford ’81 Lanier Goodman Foundation Mary Anne Van Dervoort Large ’57 Elizabeth Blackwell Laundon ’69 Mary Scales Lawson ’70 Ann Tremain Lee ’69 Debra Lee ’90 Roberta H. Lehet ’78 Colleen Kuebel Lewis ’84 Marcia Pace Lindstrom ’66 Brooke Allison Linville ’04 Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb ’59 Susan Posey Ludeman ’80 Catherine A. Lumsden ’78 Christina Savage Lytle ’88 Margot Mabie Mr. and Mrs. Brendan C. Magner Helene Bauer Magruder ’57 Blanchette Chappell Maier ’73 Anne Baldwin Mann ’78 Matchstick Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Elizabeth W. Matheson ’64 Donna and Stephen Maxwell McCallum Family Foundation Jennifer McCallum-Fulton ’92 Lenetta Archard McCampbell ’85 Deborah Koss McCarthy ’77 Martha Hoffman McCoy ’44* Mary Lee McDonald ’65 Sarane McHugh ’81 Cynthia A. McKay ’78 Marjorie Rebentisch McLemore ’70 Dorothy Woods McLeod ’58 Tia Campbell McMillan ’66 Carol Vontz Miller ’68 Mr. and Mrs. William Sheppard Miller III MDRT Foundation Sue Lawton Mobley ’55 Morgan Stanley GIFT Susan Lykes Mueller ’70 Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, President Emerita Valeria Murphey ’71 Kathleen Bailey Nager ’53 Mary Johnson Nelson ’64 Mellie Hickey Nelson ’67 Mary Burwell Nesbit ’56 New York Community Trust Margaret deLashmutt Newlyn ’62 Linda Sims Newmark ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Kent Newmark (Pat Winton Newmark ’69)

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Tennessee Nielsen ’76 Margaret Swann Norris ’45 Grace Mary Garry Oates ’64 Lamar Ellis Oglesby ’54 Gail Robins O’Quin ’67 Katharine Wilson Orton ’75 Shana-Tara Regon O’Toole ’95 Carol Barnard Ottenberg ’60 Kathryn Taylor Paine ’99 Kathleen “kp” Papadimitriou ’84 Mollie Archer Payne ’58 Kathleen Garcia Pegues ’71 Deborah Haslam Peniston ’66 Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Greta Barksdale Brown Peters ’66 Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Pierce Jeannette N. Pillsbury ’72 Susan Dern Plank ’73 Andria Calhoun Plonka ’67 Catherine Tift Porter ’44 Florence A. Powell ’80 M. Anne Powell ’88 Louise E. Pulizzi ’75 The Quarterdeck Foundation Leslie Armstrong Ramsey ’72 Josephine England Redd ’64 Carol Reifsnyder Rhoads ’65 The Richard Foundation Lynne Riley-Coleman ’64 Sarah Archibald Roberts ’83 Diana Robin ’57 Jennifer Bach Rosen ’88 Rouse-Bottom Foundation Traylor Rucker ’65 Frances Dornette Schafer ’70 Scion Natural Science Association, Inc. Jane Russo Sheehan ’52 Hannah J. Silva ’05 Jana Portman Simmons ’82 Sarah Garrison Skidmore ’56 Elizabeth Gallo Skladal ’58 Susan Hendricks Slayman ’60 Ellen S. Smith ’87 Martha Schley Kemp Smith ’12 Wendy Weiss Smith ’71 Erin E. Sobotta ’99 Christina Spada ’89 Susan Spurrell Andrews ’91 Anne Stanley ’64 Nancy Sanders Starr ’46* Tracy L. Steele ’92 Jessica Steinbrenner ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Brad Steinle

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Jane Feltus Welch ’55 Leigh Ann White ’86 Nancy C. White ’79 Mr. Thomas E. White Pamela Hellmuth Wiegandt ’64 Elizabeth Colwill Wiegers ’59 Cassandra Whaling Wierman ’85 Patricia Wilder ’63 Elizabeth Harley Willett ’84 Lois Peterson Wilson ’26* Florence Barclay Winston ’57 Winston-Salem Foundation Meredith Woo Diane Duffield Wood ’57 Shannon M. Wood ’87 Dana Dewey Woody ’58 Gwendolyn Wray-Samans ’01 Nancy Hickox Wright ’68 Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp ’68 Lizora Miller Yonce ’59 The Yonce Family Fund of the New York Community Trust Margaret Mapp Young ’67 Suzanne Weaver Zimmer ’85

DONOR SOCIETY

The Donor Society recognizes and honors the importance of donors with annual gifts under $2,500.

Margaret Dally Abate ’99 Louise Brandes Abdullah ’54 Angela Conklin Abell ’96 Dorothy J. Abernathy ’11 Christen Anderson Abernethy ’89

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Jessica A. Abramson ’08 Accutype Services, Inc. Melissa Jill Ackerman ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ackermann The Ackermann Foundation Act for Alexandria Park Adams David P. Adams Phoebe DeFoe Adams ’52 Priscilla Powell Adams ’78 Dr. and Mrs. Robert John Adams Susan Finn Adams ’86 Pearl Riggan Adamson ’66 Natalie Brown Adee ’96 Mr. and Mrs. L. Parker Harrell, Jr. (Adele Vogel Harrell ’62) April Adelson ’86 Aetna Foundation, Inc. Claire Therese Affleck ’03 Brooke D. Agee ’09 Mary Frances Oakey Aiken ’71 Deborah Butteri Akers ’77 Ramona K. Akins ’77 Amy Mosher Albair ’01 Erin A. Alberda ’01 Anne Chapin Albert ’83 Cecilia Albert ’72 Heather Pirnie Albert ’82 Kristy Alderson ’73 Harriet McNair Alexander ’86 Lillian Norburn Alexander ’65 Susan R. Alexander ’63 Kristin Kuhns Alexandre ’68 Alicia Allen ’97 Aline Payne Allen ’59

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Mary Page Stewart ’78 Gracey Stoddard ’67 Katherine Haskell Subramanian ’63 Kay Pierce Sugarbaker ’93 Meredith Thompson Sullivan ’74 Virginia Wood Susi ’04 Anne Allen Symonds ’62 Katherine Upchurch Takvorian ’72 Ann B. Tedards ’70 Jane (Kitchie) Roseberry Tolleson ’52 Virginia Hudson Toone ’53 UBS The UBS Donor-Advised Fund of the National Philathropic Trust (NPT) Holly Silsand Ulrich ’81 U.S. Department of Agriculture Margaret West Valentine ’55 Valerie Gordon-Johnson & Doug Johnson Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Vincent S. and Nancy P. Jones Advised Fund 1 at the Rochester Area Community Foundation Vincent S. and Nancy P. Jones Advised Fund 2 at the Rochester Area Community Foundation Katherine Kummer Varughese ’03 Jane Tatman Walker ’60 Wendy Igleheart Walker ’78 Carolyn Jones Walthall ’71 Walthall-Jones Family Charitable Fund of Vanguard Charitable Anne English Wardwell ’65 Betty Byrne Gill Ware ’55 Margaret Smith Warner ’58 Carolyn Judy Weathers ’66 Pamela S. Weekes ’83 Wendy C. Weiler ’71

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Julia Hunt Allen ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Kent Allen Susan Norton Allen ’72 Alliance Data Christine Carl Allison ’99 John and Renee Allison Holly Pflug Allport ’84 Jean Meyer Aloe ’63 Mr. David Alter Nessim A. Al-Yafi ’97 Loring Harris Amass ’70 AmazonSmile Foundation Beverley Sharp Amberg ’65 Julia Kientz Ambersley ’01 American Express Company and AXP Political Action Committee Thomas Ammons III Jane Yardley Amos ’63 Alicia D. Anderson ’97 Cynthia Bekins Anderson ’73 Harriet Bielitsky Anderson ’81 Jana Bekins Anderson ’59 Judith B. Anderson Judith Ruffin Anderson ’57 Lisa Aumiller Anderson ’96 Lucy Otis Anderson ’63 Harriette Hodges Andrews ’53 Jean Andrews Gasarian ’72 Joelle M. Andrews ’06 Catharine Hubbard Andry ’85 Caroline Curme Angelica ’79 Lea Osborne Angell ’63 Anonymous (16) Aoife’s Closet, LLC DBA Life’s A Beach AON Corporation The Ann and Frank Cahouet Foundation Ann Sinsheimer Charitable Gift Fund, a fund of The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo County Florence Pye Apy ’53 Deborah Pollock Arce ’73 Laura M. Arceneaux ’92 Toni Santangelo Archibald ’80 Joanna D. Arias ’75 Heather Thomas Armbruster ’98 Mona Thornhill Armistead ’65 Laura Warren Armstrong ’93 Mark Armstrong Armstrong Family Foundation Lindsay S. Arnett ’12 Julie O’Neil Arnheim ’61 Richard Arnheim Emily Spivey Arnold ’15 Frazier Miller Aronhalt ’96

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Mr. and Mrs. George Arsnow Corinne Davies Asakevich ’07 Lucinda Converse Ash ’47 Jade N. Ashley ’20 Laurel LeStrange Ashley ’91 Lauren Ashwell Allison Davis Atkinson ’00 Amanda Atkinson ’00 Ellen Howard Attar ’83 Barbara Kent Attie ’69 Amelia Dudman Atwill ’96 Hannah G. Atwood ’14 Simone Aubry ’61 Marjorie Whitson Aude ’57 Dr. and Mrs. D. C. Augustine, Jr. Margaret H. Aurand ’64 Aline Hope Carter Avery ’94 Diana Jordan Avery ’98 Ayco Charitable Foundation Elizabeth Groves Aycock ’96 Nursat I. Aygen ’76 Cassandra Smith Babbitt ’78 Michelle L. Badger ’06 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Dennis Badger Blyth Steere Bailey ’79 Linda Wallace Bailey ’66 Mary K. Bailey ’17 Mr. and Mrs. R. Russell Bailey Susan Lazarus Bailey ’85 Robyn Bailey Orchard ’86 Anne Goebel Bain ’82 Edith Ann Baird ’78 Barbara Baisley ’92 Elizabeth Beach Baker ’69 Elizabeth R. Baker ’11 Lella Baker Olivia Chaplin Baker ’81 Paul and Joanna Baker Victoria J. Baker ’67 Laura Pearson Balach ’04 Ann Works Balderston ’76 Mr. and Mrs. David W. Balding Dorothy Tobin Baldwin ’44 Kathryn Renaud Baldwin ’78 Mary Dixson Baldwin ’67 Pamela Larson Baldwin ’64 Jennifer Jarvis Ballard ’93 Mary Fran Brown Ballard ’49 Kathleen Peeples Ballou ’55 Baltimore Community Foundation Marilyn Hopkins Bamborough ’49 Bank of America Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc.

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Patricia Carroll Bankenstein ’74 Mary Newton Banks ’77 Dorothy A. Bannish ’55 Mr. Julian W. Banton Charlotte R. Barbour ’16 Ms. Patty Barbu Michelle Storey Barclay ’03 Jean Beard Barden ’78 Jeanne Stoddart Barends ’54 Ashton Barfield ’64 Rebecca Carter Barger ’81 Kathy Primm Fons Barkley ’87 Carol V. Barlow ’83 Jane S. Barnes ’68 Kristin D. Barnes ’08 Lisa Thompson Barnes ’88 Susan M. Barney ’98 Florence Rowe Barnick ’80 Lani Barovick Carroll Randolph Barr ’67 Kate Clay Barret ’66 Anne A. Barrett Cynthia Noyes Chilton Barrett ’92 Vicky A. Thoma Barrette ’65 Christina Chubb Barrille ’04 Kelsey Rae Barta ’15 Chantel N. Bartlett ’98 Dede T. Bartlett Sarah Embrey Bass ’70 Sarah Young Bass ’95 Dixie Boring Bassett ’68 Karen Herschbach Bates ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Battad Kimberley J. Battad ’07 Melissa Halstead Baugher ’86 Patricia Sadtler Baxter ’67 Susan Dwelle Baxter ’64 Robin L. Bayless ’80 Myth Monnich Bayoud ’80 Martha Isdale Beach ’54 Marianne Muse Beard ’60 Mona Wilson Beard ’51 Carol S. Bebb ’74 Brandi Beck ’90 Nancy Neighbors Becker ’57 Jeanne Fenrick Bedell ’57 Page Breakell Beeler ’79 Josie Erin Beets ’00 Robin E. Behm ’79 Megan E. Behrle ’09 Irene Pschorr Belknap ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Alex W. Bell Phyllis Schulman Bell ’76

DONOR HONOR ROLL DeAnne Blanton ’85 Lynn Carol Blau ’63 Denise Landau Blind ’88 Cynthia Craig Bliss ’66 Joan Clinchy Blood ’65 Ann Young Bloom ’59 Victoria Vidal Blum ’85 Jo Ellen Lenoir Blunk ’75 Mrs. Daniel L. Boardman Susan Christine Bobb ’00 Veronica Boda The Boeing Company Patricia Ashby Boesch ’58 JoAnn Bogolin ’89 Carol Lynn Searles Bohrer ’82 Ici Ollison Bojarczyk ’89 Diane Dunaway Boles ’82 Robert Bolton Sydney Elizabeth Bolton ’14 Martha Neill Boney ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Windsor Bonham Mrs. Robert J. Bonini Mr. and Mrs. R. Michael Bonnell Mary Ames Booker ’82 Mary Morris Gamble Booth ’50 Jody N. Booze-Daniels ’79 Natasha Haugerud Boraas ’10 Mary Green Borg ’64 Susan Desmet Bostic ’72 Christa Perry Boston ’96 Saralee Cowles Boteler ’79 Mary Blair Both ’65 Elizabeth Harder Botzis ’93 Desiree M. Bouchat ’83 Martha L. Boudreau ’79 Christine Davis Boulware ’77 Glory McRae Bowen ’67 Edith McRee Bowles ’74 Kay Diane Moore Bowles ’57 Deborah Ohler Bowman ’70 Elizabeth Williams Bowman ’72 Ellie Donahue Boyd ’08 Elinor Plowden Boyd ’74 Patricia Brown Boyer ’49 Lee Carollo Boyes ’78 Susanna D. Boylston ’87 Jessica Dennig Bozymowski ’99 Ms. Derby D. Brackett Sarah Longstreth Bradley ’77 Deborah Purvis Bramhall ’93 Carlisle Morrissett Branch ’44 Barbara A. Brand ’71 Dorothy Wetzig Brand ’71

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Elizabeth Sprague Brandt ’84 Ann Hallsey Brandt ’16 Rachel A. Bratlie ’99 Alison Brown Breene ’01 Jenny Kelsey Breining ’79 Susanne O’Neill Turner Brennan ’83 Madeline Adelle Brewer ’10 Martha J. Brewer ’69 Anne S. Briber ’69 Rod and Janet Brickey Jamee Thompson Briggs ’94 Mr. Richard O. Briggs Brighton Jones LLC Corp Kay A. Brimijoin Phyllis Herndon Brissenden ’55 Claire Marie Cieszko Britt ’83 Beatrice Totten Britton ’65 Kathleen D. Britton ’70 Mary Jane Hipp Brock ’70 Ms. Anne E. Brodie Allison Egbert Brokaw ’78 Margaretta Bredin Brokaw ’70 Joan Eltonhead Bromley ’73 Ashley Wilson Brook ’79 Anne C. Brooke ’54 Frances Bailey Brooke ’38* Kathryn Ewald Adams ’79 Nicole Hlusko Brooks ’90 Rhoda Allen Brooks ’71 H. Virgina Pennel Brooks ’66 Bonnie Chronowski Brophy ’74 Anne Carter Brothers ’63 Leslie Wilkinson Brotman ’78 Karen T. Brott Brianna Boswell Brown ’82 Elizabeth Huggins Brown ’83 Ellen Apperson Brown ’72 Ellen Hagan Brown ’81 Ellen Moseley Brown ’71 Emily McNally Brown ’72 Mr. Harold G. Brown Jean Rushin Brown ’69 Carrie M. Brown and John Gregory Brown Kathleen McNamara Brown ’02 Laura Lee Brown ’63 Mary Jo Biscardi Brown ’86 Mary Perkins Traugott Brown ’45 Nancy Dixon Brown ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brown Sharon Ingham Brown ’84 Susan Glasgow Brown ’64 Wendy Norton Brown ’71 Gay Elizabeth Kenney Browne ’82

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Ruth Marshall Bell ’67 Sylviane P. Bellamy Melissa Jean Bellan ’00 Cynthia A. Beller ’04 Frances Mantho Belliveau ’82 Sophie MacKenzie Belouet ’68 Mary Littlejohn Belser ’53 Karen Alex Bender ’79 Josephine Benedek BenefitFocus Fund of Coastal Community Foundation of SC Jacquelin Stevenson Bennett ’67 Lea Sparks Bennett ’83 Jean Spillane Benning ’90 Heidi A. Benson ’05 Sally Ann Sells Bensur ’79 Nancy Crawford Bent ’69 Pamela Burwell Benton ’68 Linda H. Berenberg Leslie Malone Berger ’83 Stephanie Lee Berger ’91 Leslie Bergman ’82 Amanda Priddy Berkey ’90 Lynne Miller Bernard ’76 Susan Terjen Bernard ’63 Mary Dance Berry ’08 Claudia K. Berryhill ’72 Sara Gump Berryman ’64 Justine E. Betzler Karen R. Bewick ’75 Anne Traynor Biasiolli ’04 Eleanor B. Bibb ’83 Lisa Henderson Bice ’82 Joan Moore Biddle ’64 Sidney Albers Bieser ’10 Krista Biggs ’89 Devon Vasconcellos Bijansky ’99 Laura D. Billings ’96 Katrina Ann Balding Bills ’97 Janet Whitehurst Binder ’75 Anne Carr Bingham ’67 Elisabeth Brawner Bingham ’51 Jeanne Schaefer Bingham ’73 Edith Lasher Birch ’64 Nan C. Bird Mr. Franklin T. Birdsall, Jr. Leslie Ludwick Bires ’80 Ana Serrano Black ’83 Regan J. Blackwood ’02 Barbara Blair Kendall T. Blake Jacqueline Israel Blakeslee ’68 Patricia H. Blanchard

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Amanda Cash Browning ’07 Shirley Poulson Broyles ’54 Mary Landon Smith Brugh ’57 Patricia O’Malley Brunger ’75 Mr. and Mrs. James W. Brunson Ann-Barrett Holmes Bryan ’49 Jean C. von Schrader Bryan ’82 Amanda Prine Bryant ’08 Cecilia A. Bryant ’68 Cecilia Bryant Gift Account, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Cdr. and Mrs. Michael L Bryant, USN, PE Sara H. Brydges ’67 Julia Watts Buchanan ’59 Isabel Deprosper Bucher ’74 Margaret Tucker Buck ’02 Marilyn Meyers Buckey ’68 Nina Wilkerson Bugg ’60 Gretchen L. Buis ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Clive H. Bullard Sidney Cauthen Bullard ’93 Dr. Bobby Stieh Bulls Marie Ironmonger Bundy ’51 Susan L. Bundy ’73 Isabel Ware Burch ’60 Emily M. Burke ’06 Joan Phelps Burkett ’56 Courtney Lynn Burkey ’01 Julianne C. Burkhardt ’87 Wynn Cole Burr ’96 Anne Cogswell Burris ’75 Rebecca Burt ’76 Susan Heitmiller Busch ’78 Terese DeGrandi Busch ’76 Kathryn M. Buster ’68 Mr. and Mrs. David M. Butcher Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Butcher Jill E. Butcher ’97 Cornelia Radford Butler ’76 Evelyn Day Butler ’66 Helen Pruitt Butler ’84 Kimberly Shrader Butterfield ’09 Linda Williams Buttrill ’70 Mary Buxton Buxton ’73 Virginia Claus Buyck ’83 Jean Shaw Byrne ’65 C. B. Fleet Company Jennifer Brodlieb Cacioppo ’92 Jeanette Rowe Cadwallender ’79 Margaret Wadman Cafasso ’61 Mr. and Mrs. David Cahoone Ann Walsh Cahouet ’54 Mrs. Craig J. Cain

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Eugenia Dickey Caldwell ’65 Evelyn B. Caldwell Louise Phinney Caldwell ’60 Tysha Noel Calhoun ’94 Rushton Haskell Callaghan ’86 Emily Virkus Calle ’98 Laura Mixon Camacho ’83 H. Stuart Camblos ’70 Anne Richards Camden ’69 Rose Thomas Camp ’74 Amy Leigh Campbell ’97 Benita B. Campbell Dana Varnado Campbell ’93 Illona Petrovits Campbell ’74 Ms. Jean Campbell M. Lin Campbell ’66 Mary Johnson Campbell ’58 Melanie H. E. Campbell ’06 Susan Graham Campbell ’81 William and Lynnette Campbell W. D. Campbell Insurance Paige Vaught Campion ’96 Nancy Hanger Canada ’81 Jodi and Gary Canfield Ann Arnspiger Canipe ’69 Mary Noble Caperton ’54 Capital Concrete Chelsea Capizzi-Walsh ’08 Anthony Caprio Betty Noland Caravati ’63 Jonita E. Carder ’74 Hallie Powell Cardwell ’78 Lucy Kreusler Carey ’50 Eithne Broderick Carlin ’80 Karen Holland Carlisle ’91 Carrie Ruda Carlsen ’78 Catherine Dillingham Carlson ’63 Dudley Pender Carlson ’58 Martha Baum Carlton ’62 The CarMax Foundation Frank J. Carnabuci III Barbara Hastings Carne ’69* Victoria White Carpenter ’72 Carolyn and Lemuel Hewes Account, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Alison E. Carr ’08 Katherine M. Carr ’98 Catherine Lanter Carrick ’96 Mary Woltz Carrison ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Carroll Lee Huston Carroll ’64 Sigrid Zirkle Carroll ’93 Victoria McCullough Carroll ’84

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Abigail Carter ’89 and Eric Rudenshiold Ann MacDonald Carter ’97 Anne Babson Carter ’61 Eleanor Jane Wells Carter ’83 Jessica Anne Carter ’04 Joan Carter Mr. and Mrs. Maculey Carter, Jr. Carter-Barger Family Fund of the Community Foundation of Gaston County, Inc. Vera LeCraw Carvaillo ’64 Ellen Reed Carver ’85 Amelia Gray Casey ’61 Caitlin E. Cashin ’07 Katherine Connors Cassada ’86 Elizabeth Gantt Castles ’82 Jennifer Taylor Catano ’02 Elizabeth Stanly Cates ’63 Elizabeth Brewer Caughman ’70 Ashley Celis Cavalier ’93 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Cavalleri Mary E. Cave ’53 Miriam Choi Cave ’06 Elaine Horton Cavener ’65 Mr. Paul Chaconas Sarah Chaffee Paris ’96 Jacqueline Razook Chamandy ’52 Bettye Thomas Chambers ’62 Champion Plastics Nell G. Champoux ’05 Jamila Hyder Champsi ’80 Janna McLarty Chandler ’96 Kristin M. Chapdelaine ’08 Kenneth Chappelle Lynn Mather Charette ’86 Charities Aid Foundation of America Wendie Charles Charles ’11 Charles Jago Elder Foundation, Inc. Charles M. Caravati Foundation Charles Lee Smith, III Family Fund of Triangle Community Foundation Charles S. and Beth D. Baldwin Advised Fund, a donor-advised fund of The Winston-Salem Foundation The Charlotte H Herbert Fund of Vanguard Charitable Charis Lease-Trevathan Chase ’06 Danielle F. Briggs-Hansen ’07 Katharine Barnhardt Chase ’67 and Robert L. Chase Lee Anne MacKenzie Chaskes ’83 Cynthia Manning Chatham ’75 Mr. and Mrs. James Allan Chatt II Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cherna Courtney Warrick Cherna ’84

DONOR HONOR ROLL Stephanie Alford Collett ’84 Virginia Marks Collier ’92 Ann H. Collins ’76 Anne Collins ’96 Cissel Gott Collins ’72 Mrs. Karen R. Collins Kelly Collins Lear ’96 Elaine Dies Colmer ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Colvin C. Victoria Coxe Commander ’64 Community Foundation of Gaston County, Inc. Community Foundation of North Florida The Community Foundation of Western Carolina, Inc. Nancy Lenihan Conaty ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Conley Anne White Connell ’54 Barbara Tragakis Conner ’85 Christine Strous Conner ’63 Elizabeth Snider Conner ’98 Catherine Louise Connor ’77 Jocelyn Palmer Connors ’62 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Connors ( Jocelyn Palmer Connors ’62) Marion Thorington Conover ’58 Cynthia M. Conroy ’74 Tara L. Conte ’03 Elizabeth Moore Conti ’78 Maureen Conway ’71 Hilary Cooper Cook ’05 Mr. and Mrs. James B. Cook Joan Kells Cook ’55 Katherine Cook ’94 Louise Mueller Cook ’79 Foy Roberson Cooley ’65 Susan Stevens Cooley ’57 Barbara Bush Cooper ’81 Dale A. Cooper ’61 Elizabeth B. Cooper ’05 Gloria J. Cooper Harriet Y. Cooper ’56 Jill Haden Cooper ’67 Mr. Leslie Kent Cooper Octavia Wood Cooper ’68 Anne Peyton Cooper ’50 Christine Francis Copeland ’71 Meredith Cope-Levy Dr. and Mrs. Kevin Coppersmith Madeleine Blanchard Corbo ’89 Martha Tisdale Cordell ’82 Maria Corpora Caroline F. Corum ’88 Elizabeth Meyer Costello ’74

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Cary Lamond Courier ’62 Melinda Treutle Courtland ’79 Mary Cowell Sharpe ’79 Evelyn Carter Cowles ’73 Mr. Frederic H. Cox, Jr. Lenore L. Cox ’78 Virginia Baldwin Cox ’69 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Craddock Susan M. Craig ’73 Virginia S. Craig ’78 Craig and Emily Wall Family Foundation Molly Rogers Cramer ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Page D. Cranford Rose Toppin Cranz ’75 Mackenzie R. Crary ’18 Margaret A. Craw ’72 Virginia Ramsey Crawford ’59 Martha Baird Boxley Creasy ’85 Lisa C. Crego ’92 Emily Gooch Crenshaw ’70 Kelly Crist ’06 Michael Crites Cutler Bellows Crockard ’72 Susan Bronson Croft ’64 Susan Brush Croft ’68 Faith Rahmer Croker ’54 Sally L. Croker ’92 The Cromarty Foundation, Inc. Laura K. Cromwell ’09 Mr. and Mrs. William E. Cromwell Margaret Reeder Crosbie ’64 Martha Stewart Crosland ’71 Bruce Croushore Lynne Smith Crow ’64* Katherine Nicole Crowder ’03 Katherine T. Clarke ’09 Crum Charitable Foundation Sherrill Milnor Crump ’70 Ameka Reeves Cruz ’01 Stacey Vilar Csaplar ’88 Emily Ward Culp ’64 Culter Charitable Account, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Electa Hoffman Culver ’68 Mr. and Mrs. William K. Curling Molly Currens ’89 Jaquelin Ambler Cusick ’57 Robin R. Cutler ’66 Caroline T. Czarra ’22 Penelope Czarra ’75 Mrs. Charlotte Gmelin Dabney Gerald Dackin Alexandra G. Dagher ’17

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Annette Teng Cheung ’79 Chevron Products Company Patricia Chick Mary Montgomery Childers ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Chope Sharon Bradford Christhilf ’65 Patricia F. Christian ’89 Ingrid Christner ’79 Lt. Col. and Mrs. Wallace G. Christner Barbara Little Chuko ’64 Ginger Ryon Church ’85 Melissa Cicotello ’99 Sandra Ahern Cimons ’83 Sharon Van Cleve Cipriano ’64 Citizens Charitable Foundation Citrix Systems, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Clark Edith Knapp Clark ’58 Eileen Stroud Clark ’65 Laura Morrissette Clark ’85 Lynn Adams Clark ’61 MJ Clark ’15 Nancy Hamel Clark ’52 Temma Clark-Braverman ’10 Elizabeth Hodges Clarke Ms. Jennifer Clarke Katherine Wood Clarke ’65 Kirkland Tucker Clarkson ’53 Lucile McKee Clarkson ’69 Mr. and Mrs. David R. Clayton Jan Schnibbe Cleary ’75 Carol E. Clement ’75 E. Anne Clement ’78 Sarah Preston Clement ’75 Kristin K. Clemons ’99 Heather Tully Click ’70 Joan Dabney Clickner ’91 Clifton Foundation, Inc. Barbara Darnall Clinton ’56 Mr. and Mrs. John Christopher Clough Cailey N. Cobb ’20 Mr. and Mrs. Mike Cobb Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Cochran Vereen Coen Mr. and Mrs. Leonard James Coffey Sara J. Coffey ’06 Sheila Cohig Harriotte Bland Coke ’48 Christopher Colburn Alexandra Carpenter Cole ’58 Lucy Darby Cole ’78 Stephanie Ewalt Coleman ’67 College For A Day In Colorado, Inc.

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Suzanne Gay Dailey ’83 Daks Nongkran Bergen Hall Daley ’95 Elizabeth Day Dalrymple ’78 Claudette Harloe Dalton ’69 Shannon L. Dalton Susan Holbrook Daly ’70 Mr. James R. V. Daniel The Daniel Kress and Patty Glick Fund of Vanguard Charitable Pamela Boyd Daniel ’68 Roberta T. Daniel Rebecca Klauder Danziger ’85 Mary Landon Darden ’74 Linda Manley Darling ’85 Page Darney ’98 Lisa Buckingham Darr ’95 Jane R. Davenport ’70 Elizabeth Ripley Davey ’47 Katherine Robison Davey ’83 David and Deana Sullivan Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. James Davidson Lisanne Purvis Davidson ’78 Nancy Daugherty Davidson ’82 Amy Calandra Davis ’90 Holly Chaikowski Davis ’61 Carolyn Foster Davis ’75 Elizabeth Haeberle Davis ’01 Gina Pollock Davis ’89 Ret. Col. and Mrs. James W. Davis, Jr. Julia Brooke Davis ’81

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Lisa Heisterkamp Davis ’80 Mary Reynolds Davis ’84 Michael R. Davis, Jr. Jacqueline A. Dawson Mr. and Mrs. John F. Day Constance Williams de Bordenave ’68 Calvert G. de Coligny, Jr. Amanda de Coligny ’68 Mary Donaldson De Figard ’68 Georgia Riley de Havenon ’68 Jennifer Grimm de Mello e Souza ’92 Donna J. Mateski De Sanchez Rapti M. de Silva ’88 Jean Lindsay de Streel ’58 Morgan Nicole Deal ’16 Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel Toni Duffield Dean ’88 Polly Plumb deButts ’52 Emily Kitchel DeCamp ’83 Ellie Spivey Decker ’67 Dianne Delledera ’80 Marlene Weber Delledera ’81 Delta Air Lines Marianna V. deLyon ’13 Victoria Hutcheson DeMichele ’91 Margaret T. Dempsey ’84 Debrah L. Denemark ’70 Suzanne M. Denning Sarah Strapp Dennison ’10 Hannah G. Denson ’22 Emily Marie Dent ’12 Hilda H. Dent ’76 Elise Wachenfeld dePapp ’55

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Beverley Birchfield Derian ’59 Rolfe Joyner DeShazor ’82 Mr. Christopher Davis Desloge Mary Dubuque Desloge ’75 Mr. Patrick Henry Dessart Lynne Gardner Detmer ’68 Susan C. Detweiler ’88 Eva M. Devine ’81 Linda C. DeVogt ’86 Pamela J. DeWeese Ms. Caroline Dewey Cassidy Jones DeWitt ’11 Amanda Diamond Ring ’98 Corin A. Diaz ’19 Adriana Beckman Diaz-Farias ’89 Jennifer L. Dick ’07 Rebecca Dick Eleanor L. Dickinson ’95 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. Dickson Eleanor Griggs Diemar ’66 Ann King Dietrich ’53 Elizabeth and Luther Dietrich Jenny Walkiewicz Dill ’09 Leigh Darrell Dillon ’06 Yennifer Dineen Alice Elizabeth Dixon ’82 Emily Pitts Dixon ’71 Louisa S. Dixon ’75 Mrs. Joseph M. Dixon, Jr. Meredith Dixon Alice V. Dodd ’65 Vincent J. Doddy Mr. and Mrs. Michael Carlton Dodge The Dodger Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation Angelique Milone Dodson ’03 Emily B. Dodson ’18 Ms. Margaret Dodson Lee Foley Dolan ’96 Brooke Thomas Dold ’71 Margaret S. Doley ’94 Dominion Resources, Inc. Elizabeth Kyle Donahue ’82 Misty D. Donathan ’99 Ann Thomas Donohue ’54 Michele Dore ’74 Joelle Jackson Doss ’98 Douglas G. Lindsey Giving Account, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Tria Pell Dove ’64 True Dow ’80 Ethel Burwell Dowling ’82 Barbara Bolling Downs ’64

DONOR HONOR ROLL C. Cliff Edahl, Sr. Donna H. Edgerton ’68 Mary Evans Edwards ’64 Mildred A. Edwards ’20 Anne Wrightson Efird ’63 Leslie Eglin ’84 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ehlen, Jr. Cynthia Seiler Eister ’76 El Mariachi Harriet Thayer Elder ’52 Virginia Jago Elder ’53* Leslie Smith Elger ’63 Patricia Littleton Eliades ’83 Elise W. dePapp, M.D. Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. David S. Elkins Caroline Robinson Ellerbe ’56 Jordyn L. Elliott ’17 Jacqueline Littell Ellis ’58 Sarah Baxter Ellison ’75 Pamela Koehler Elmets ’80 Andrea Dickson Elu ’93 Margaret Jenks Emerson ’68 Hannah Davis Emig ’83 Emily and Zach Smith Donor Advised Fund of the Foundation For The Carolinas The Employees Charity Organization (ECHO) of Northrop Grumman Dana Dotten Endacott ’78 Alan M. Engler Jane Campbell Englert ’57 Kenneth A. Englund Sarah Colhoun Engram ’79 Kathy Knox Ennis ’60 Catherine Erickson Katherine Taylor Erickson ’80 Nancy Erickson Mary Jane Eriksen Ertman ’51 Louise Wright Erwin ’79 Maria Ward Estefania ’69 Eva and Calvert de Coligny Fund of Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia Mrs. Betty A. Evans Carol Brewer Evans ’75 Julia Johnson Evans ’73 Rebecca Dane Evans ’78 Teresa Lear Evans ’74 Virginia Brent Evans ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Bernard L. Everett Melinda Brown Everett ’68 Chloe Briscoe Ewalt ’73 ExxonMobil Foundation Simone Margaret Faas ’14

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Genevieve and Tim Fadool Marianne C. Fahs ’71 Keri L. Falk ’11 Patricia Dolph Fallon ’84 Paula Kilbourne Steers Farese ’93 Tabb Thornton Farinholt ’59 Mary Anne Calhoun Farmer ’66 Suzanne Gipson Farnham ’57 The Family Associates Inc. Fund of Vanguard Charitable Anne Marie Farrell ’87 Sarah Engleby Farrell ’86 Lenora L. Farrington ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Rodger W. Fauber (Ann Sims Fauber ’64) Kory Aldrian Faulkner ’92 Lisa Koob Fawcett ’89 Nancy Banfield Feher ’64 Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Fein Phyllis Feddeler Fejzuli ’83 Margaret Mather Feldmeier ’71 Kimberly Harden Fella ’00 Laura Penick Felt ’66 Mary Jane Roos Fenn ’54 Carol Holbrook Ferguson ’12 Frances McClung Ferguson ’80 Laura Marie Ferrazzano ’88 Alice Mighell Foster Ficken ’65 Sarah Kalber Fiedler ’66 Nicole J. M. File ’95 Robyn Peckol Filimaua ’96 The Filling Station Shelbie Brooke Filson ’91 Elizabeth Finfeis Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Fine Linda S. Fink Mary Fleming Willis Finlay ’66 Gretchen Smith Finley ’93 Susan Bassett Finnegan ’54 June Eager Finney ’49 Kirkland Wohlrab Fiorella ’04 Leslie Hertz Firestone ’82 Elizabeth Fisch Ulrike M. Fischer ’90 Autum MatysekSnyder Fish ’04 Robin Bettger Fishburne ’96 Grace Jones Fishel ’52 Elizabeth Potts Fisher ’75 Elizabeth Weil Fisher ’47 Libby Glenn Fisher ’83 Frances Butt Fisher ’66 Susan Croker Fisher ’84 Diana Howard Fisketjon ’83 Linda A. Fite ’67

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Joan Lamparter Downs ’58 Sarah Margaret Doyle ’09 Dr. and Mrs. Marc Carpenter Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Kathleen Walsh Drake ’72 William B. Drake, Jr. Elizabeth White Drbal ’77 Patricia Markle Dresden ’65 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas John Dresing Ellen Clare Gillespie Dreyer ’83 Lynne Higgins Dreyer ’86 Lucy Elizabeth Drinkwater ’15 Marion West Dripps ’69 Amy Ayers Peck Driscoll ’92 Susan Page Driver ’66 William and Kathy Dubishar Judy Loving Dudley ’73 Donna M. Duff Jeanne Duff ’53 Roberta Ellen Duffie Fritz ’89 Anne Merriman Duffy ’86 Jane Yoe Duggan ’53 Anne R. Duguid ’60 Ann Plumb Duke ’58 Maria Shields Duke ’76 Melanie C. Duke ’91 Susan Hancock Duke ’73 Duke Energy Foundation Mimi Galloway Duncan ’42 Anne Fisher Duncklee ’59 Cathleen Brooke Dunkle ’85 Barbara Baur Dunlap ’68 Dunlap Williamson Youmans Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, Inc. Elizabeth Space Dunn ’59 Helen C. Dunn ’64 The Dunn Foundation Sonja Gruhl Dupourque ’90 Catherine Meacham Durgin ’57 Helen Masters Durham ’81 Annette C. Dusenbury ’97 Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Dusenbury Courtney A. Dwyer ’16 Elizabeth Walker Dykes-Steib ’54 Meredith Taylor Eads ’01 Paula K. Eanes Marie Engel Earnhart ’82 Brentz Basten East ’05 Erin Wright East ’00 Melissa C. Eaton ’96 Virginia Eldridge Eaton ’70 Lynne Manov Echols ’71

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Martha Field Fite ’56 Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Fitton Charlotte Marie Prassel FitzGerald ’82 Fitzgerald Family Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Libby Harvey FitzGerald ’68 Margaret Handly Fitzgerald ’67 Emily FitzHugh ’61 Stephanie Stitt Fitzpatrick ’81 Catherine Flaherty ’80 Heather Willson Flaherty ’84 Jacqueline Weiner Flaherty ’98 Elizabeth Engelsmann Flanigan ’82 Mary-Linda Morris Flasche ’94 Margery E. Fleigh ’64 Carey Johnson Fleming ’78 Marion Lucas Fleming ’61 Catherine Watjen Flemings ’59 Judith Brown Fletcher ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Charles Florio Lucile Redmond Flournoy ’82 Ann McCullough Floyd ’58 Susan Seitz Jackson ’02 Abby E. Flynn ’72 Jennie Lyons Fogarty ’68 Judy Schlatter Fogle ’67 Carol Remington Foglesong ’71 Janet Foley Stacey Foraker Jeanne Brassel Ford ’68 Patricia Lynas Ford ’51 Sarah Ford C. Ashley Forehand Oakley ’05 Leigh McDonald Forrester ’78 Deborah Blair Forrey ’84 Margaret White Forsberg ’90 Thomasin A. Foshay ’93 Dabney Bragg Foshee ’77 Joanne O’Malley Foster ’52 Sally Bianchi Foster ’50 Barbara Childrey Fowler ’61 Kathleen J. Fowler ’02 Anne Gwinn Fox ’57 May Humphreys Fox ’70 Theresa Walters Fox ’96 Ms. Ann Edwards Fragale Ms. Sandy Fraley Alexandria S. Francis ’74 Eugenia Francis Frank and Ann Sidles Charitable Fund of the Lincoln Community Foundation, Inc. Daun Thomas Frankland ’74 Page E. Franson ’87

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Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Franson Catherine Gornto Freeman ’92 Ms. Monica G. Freeman ’73 Nancy Powell French ’62 Rebecca Nelson Freudigman ’94 Kristen Noelle Frey ’16 Mrs. Eric G. Friberg Kelleigh Klym Friesen ’90 Nancy R. and Stephen P. Friot Mary Stockburger Fritzges ’88 Caroline Bailey Fritzinger ’50 Deborah A. Fritzler Rex Fritzler Betty Works Fuller ’72 Fuller Family 1620 Fund of The Chicago Community Foundation Kimberly Wood Fuller ’80 Patricia I. Fuller ’71 Sheila Nolan Fuller ’66 Penn Willets Fullerton ’66 Gail Sims Furniss ’64 Ria Fyffe-Freil ’11 Carolyn Gabel-Brett ’63 Chesley Phillips Gaddis ’03 Rebecca L. Gagne ’16 Deborah Walz Gaither ’84 Anne Crow Galanides ’91 Jaimie Del Monte Galbreath ’92 Susan Soriero Galbreath ’67 Carol Provence Gallivan ’73 Joan Fisch Gallivan ’56 Marianne Schultz Galt ’68 Betsie Meric Gambel ’73 Gambel Communications, LLC Ann Mountcastle Gamble ’51 Lynn Crosby Gammill ’58 Charles Richard Gamper, Jr. (Maria Rixey Gamper ’78*) Mary Goodwin Gamper ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Lanny Gantz Kristin Palbicke Garces ’06 Gardeners of the Junior League of Washington DC Bridget Wray Gardner ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Ray L. Garland Carolyn Garneau Elza Long Garnett ’72 Heather Ayers Garnett M. Lee Garrison Mary Moore Garrison ’78 Mary Cox Garry ’83 Virginia Carson Garver ’41 Virginia Woodward Gast ’73 Barbara Gastel

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Frances Diane Dilworth Gates ’80 Gay Owens Gates ’77 Patricia Frawley Gates ’59 Ms. Dawn Gatewood Tracy Gatewood ’83 Laura Powell Gatling ’96 Katrina Evans Gatti ’88 Kelly Turney Gatzke ’99 Jill E. Gavitt ’97 Nancy E. Gavitt Anne Pinckney Gay ’63 Karen Greer Gay ’74 Mary Bryan Gay ’72 GE Foundation Genevieve Hammel Geer ’50 Constance A. Gehrman ’91 Heather Minor Gelormine ’02 The Generosity Trust Victoria Bradley Gentry ’12 Thomas W. George Georgia Power Company Allison A. Gerber ’98 Edward R. Gerber Lucy Martin Gianino ’60 Nancy Corson Gibbes ’60 Margaret Works Gibbs ’51 Cynthia Livingstone Gibert ’63 Janet Nelson Gibson ’72 Katherine Artley Gibson ’83 Susan Roessel Gibson ’69 Melissa J. Giggenbach ’96 Anne Green Gilbert ’69 Barbara McCullough Gilbert ’52 Nancy Hawbaker Gilbert ’58 Penelope Walsh Gilbert ’72 Elizabeth Gilgan Bianco ’94 Anne Kilby Gilhuly ’55 Gerald Gill Jill Berguido Gill ’67 Robert M. Gill Mary McGuire Gilliam ’47 George and Melanie Gillies Cheryl Bishop Gilman ’90 Weezie Blakeslee Gilpin ’73 Nancy Young Gilpin ’71 Edith Dobyns Gilson Gilson Investments, Inc. Tracy Worthington Ginn ’89 Edward J. Ginty Marion Phyllis Girard ’69 Leigh Glaeser Ashley Wheeler Glass ’96 Glaxo Wellcome, Inc. Courtney Yerdon Gleason ’03

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Mary Murchison Gornto ’69 Anne Evans Gorry ’64 Mary Ann Gosser Patricia Roby Gotfredson ’84 Jane E. Gott ’70 Claire Christensen Goves ’96 Anna Nicolaisen Graham ’04 Dale Shelly Graham ’72 Kathryn Keys Graham ’72 Pamela Cogghill Graham ’74 Sara E. Granath ’68 Mercedes Gravatt Grandin ’72 Jo Gulick Grant ’50 Priscilla R. Grant ’83 Anne Lee Gravely ’62 Mr. and Mrs. Greg G. Gray Lea Marie Gray ’15 Lendon F. Gray ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Gray Rachel Cooper Gray ’96 Beth Hodgkins Green ’89 Clara Barton Green ’89 Elizabeth Duggins Green ’86 Elizabeth Miller Green ’68 Mary Polk Green ’82 Mr. and Mrs. William D. Green Virginia Chamblin Greene ’55

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Susan E. Greenwald ’71 Kelly Bowman Greenwood ’98 Katherine LaRoche Greer ’68 Greer Family Foundation Jennifer Anne Gregg ’91 Mary Shine Gregg ’62 Catharine Toomey Gregorie ’84 Elizabeth M. Gregory ’02 Marian Finney Grenn ’82 Mary E. Gress ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bruce Grey The Greyson and Garland Tucker Charitable Fund of the National Christian Foundation Carolinas Greyson Lucas Designs Ann Crowe Griffin ’66 Annabeth Griffin ’18 M. Keating Griffiss ’60 Mr. Jeff Griffith Leza M. Griffith ’89 John Grigsby Courtney Kneece Grimm ’89 Cecelia Williamson Grinstead ’68 Dawn Everett Grobe ’98 Alexandra F. Grobman ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Grobman Mr. and Mrs. Jack Groesch

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Jane Piper Gleason ’74 Stephanie Gleason ’04 Mary Elizabeth Ryan Glenn ’78 Gwen Maureen Fisher Glew ’91 Patricia S. Glick ’86 Susan Hill Glick ’68 Gail Nancy Glifort ’86 Laura Hand Glover ’86 Barbara Glynn Elizabeth Freeman Goetz ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Victor R. Gold, Jr. Kathleen Anne Golden ’77 Nancy L. Golden ’81 Goldman Sachs & Co. Laura Radford Goley ’52 Rebecca Frost Good ’77 Wayne Stokes Goodall ’48 Barbara Paulson Goodbarn ’83 Barbara Ross Goode ’62 Lucy Regester Goode ’51 Janice van den Heuvel Goodman ’86 Elizabeth Williams Gookin ’44 Helen Milner Gordon ’77 Patricia Groesbeck Gordon ’46 Tarl Gordon Margaret Laurent Gordy ’78 Cheryl L. Gorman ’84

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Marie Pickering Grose ’61 Betsy Shure Gross ’62 Ila Lane Gross ’62 Susan Griffith Grossman ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Grover Gryphon Financial Partners Isabelle Viguerie Gsell ’86 Lindsay Drake Guenther ’04 Camelia Washington Gunn ’89 Barbara Sublett Guthery ’62 Sheila Miller Guttenberg ’95 Lottie Lipscomb Guttry ’56 Brigitte C. H. Guttstadt ’52 Percy Clarke Gwinn ’68 Mary Koonz Gynn ’56 Ann Morton Young Habliston ’82 Leah Marie Haes ’16 K. Ellen Hagan ’81 Jane Eastin Hager ’67 Margaret C. Hager The Rev. and Mrs. Donald F. Hague Nancy H. Haight ’75 Barbara M. Hale ’60 Gabrielle Fraser Hale ’65 L. Pryor Hale ’65 Alison S. Hall ’97 Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Hall Elizabeth Nott Hall ’86 Kate Hall ’97 Kelly E. Hall ’95 Metta Streit Halla ’55 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Malcolm Halliday, Jr. Jennie Bateson Hamby ’76 Elizabeth Taylor Hamilton ’69 Jeanne Bounds Hamilton ’61 Hamilton Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Hammock Mary M. Hammock ’08 Patricia M. Hammond Frances G. Hanahan ’64 Elizabeth Wood Hancock ’63 Jeanette Kennedy Hancock ’55 Juliet Young Hancock ’65 Sudie Clark Hanger ’42 Richard P. Hankins, Jr. Elizabeth Becton Hannah ’84 Anne Edmunds Hansen ’82 Brendy Reiter Hantzes ’81 Mary Beverley Taylor Haque ’73 The Harbor Foundation Elisabeth Sartor Harden ’68 Margaret May Harden ’73 Dr. and Mrs. Byron B. Harder Jean Mann Hardesty ’72

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Carolyn Gough Harding ’60 Rosemary C. Hardy ’82 Susan Negaard Harley ’78 Heather Riegel Harper ’83 Sandra Elder Harper ’58 Sarah Jennings Harper ’11 Kara Elizabeth Harpham ’17 Harrell Charitable Gift Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Terrell Luck Harrigan ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Phillip R. Harrill ’66 Lynn Prior Harrington ’58 Elizabeth Harris Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Harris Jennica A. Harris ’08 Kathryn H. Harris ’70 Mary C. Harris ’99 Mary Lawrence Harris ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Harris, Jr. Trudy Harris Harris Foundation Katherine G. Harrison ’56 Martin Leigh Harrison Penelope Parker Hartline ’84 Nancy Laemmel Hartmann ’52 Deborah R. Harvey ’82 Donna Hoogland Harwood ’99 Kristen Lisa Summers and Joel St Claire Hasbrouck Connie G. Haskell ’70 Anne Mobley Hassett ’87 Mary Patterson Hatcher ’84 Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Hatfield Anne Booth Hauser ’64 Meghan M. Hauser ’03 Kathryn L. Haw ’92 Emily B. Hawk ’18 Penny Oliver Hawkins ’68 Judith Williams Hawthorne ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Vernon B. Hayden Louise L. Hayman ’70 The Haynes-Eskrigge Fund of The Community Foundation of Western Carolina, Inc. Caroline Chappell Hazarian ’09 Camilla Reid Hazlehurst ’68 Elizabeth Sutton Healy ’65 Ann B. Hearin ’59 Ramona Achterberg Heers ’01 Barbara Cain Hegarty ’73 Jaime L. Heimbegner ’04 Elizabeth Biggar Hellmuth ’74 Susan Calhoun Heminway ’58 Courtney Lammers Hemmer ’97

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Maria Wiglesworth Hemmings ’67 Ann Stewart Matthews Hemphill ’68 Katrina Groat Henchman ’61 Achsah Easter Henderson ’50 Anne Johnston Henderson ’62 Henderson Foundation Rickey L. Hendricks ’68 Shirley Pinson Hendricks ’03 Mayde Ludington Henningsen ’48 Vida Henry-Fonseca ’84 Stephanie Giles Hensley ’07 Catherine Goodhart Henson ’77 Gillian M. Heptinstall ’73 Anna Fines Herbert ’03 Charlotte Hoskins Herbert ’67 Carlisle Adams Hernandez ’10 Dr. and Mrs. Rafael E. Hernández Heather Hernandez-Theis ’95 Alexandra Herrera ’11 Fred Deen Herring (Helen Chapman Herring ’61*) Ann Banks Herrod ’68 Jessica R. Crowley ’96 Deborah and James Hershman Karen Goodspeed Hertlein ’84 Kristin Herzog ’70 Hannah E. Hesser ’10 Elizabeth G. Hester ’79 Anne Willis Hetlage ’56 Carolyn Mapp Hewes ’69 Trienel Ahearn Hickman ’92 Karla Kennedy Hicks ’85 Jill A. Higginbotham ’94 Elizabeth Simpson Hilberts ’81 Brandi Whitley Hilder ’99 Elizabeth Hill ’67 Eve L. Hill ’86 Latané Spencer Hill ’89 Leslie Elbert Hill ’74 Mary A. Hill ’00 Melissa Henning Hill ’99 Preston Hodges Hill ’49 Susan Sudduth Hiller ’66 H. Therese Robinson Hillyer ’83 Cynthia Hague Hineline ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Hines Abigail Phillips Hinga ’96 Cameron Cox Hirtz ’88 Nancy Collier Hitchins ’65 Katherine Cole Hite ’88 Melissa Schoen Hitt ’85 Dorothy Duncan Hodges ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Emory Melvin Hodges Linda Schwaab Hodges ’65

DONOR HONOR ROLL Susan Miller Hudson ’78 Tricia Hudson Alexandra Hanson Huebner ’92 Martha Bugg Hughes ’72 Mary Farmer Hughes ’99 Dayna Avery Hulme ’86 The Hulme Family Foundation The Humana Foundation, Inc. Arthur F. Humphrey III Cissy Humphrey ’76 Marion McKee Humphreys ’73 Conover Hunt ’68 LuAnn Haag Hunt ’90 Susan Thorndike Hunt ’64 Amy Schroeder Hunter ’95 Louise Lambert Hunter ’77 Sarah W. Hunter ’16 Rebecca Doyle Huppert ’91 Courtney Louise Hurt ’10 Hallam Hurt ’67 Katherine Hoelz Hurt ’11 Joan Anson Hurwit ’54 Lori A. Husein Katherine Grosvenor Hutcheson ’83 Lauren MacMannis Huyett ’79 Huyett Family Charitable Fund (a donor advised fund) of the BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund Alice Wright Hyde ’65 Elizabeth Richmond Hyder ’84 Kathleen Meredith Iacobelli ’88 Ruth Schmidt Igoe ’66 Carolyn Gaisford Imbriglia ’75 Sarah Elkins Ince ’99 and Keith A. Ince Sarah Paradise Ingber ’68 Lynn Rosemarie Hanna Ingram ’82 Investment Charitable Gift Fund Mary Amanda McThenia Iodice ’55* Paul Irwin Isabel Ware Burch Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Kim E. Izquierdo ’98 J. M. Huber Corporation J. P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated The J.P. Morgan Securities Charitable Giving Fund of the National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) Jack & Moira Lawrence Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Ann Biggs Jackson ’68 Karen Jackson Nancy Ord Jackson ’53 Alice Preston Jacobs ’68

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Marian Shanley Jacobs ’44 Juliet Jacobsen Kastorff ’84 Julie Lindauer Jacobson ’88 Virginia Moncure Jamerson ’08 Catherine Blaik James ’94 Deanne Dawson James ’86 Jane Knutson James ’73 Murray Armstrong James ’48 James and Marilyn Bamborough Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Rebecca Garrett Jamison ’80 Susie Venable Jamison ’61 Margaret Enochs Jarvis ’83 Michelle Francesca Johnson Jay Jay and Jennifer Mills Fund at the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, Inc. The Jean M. and Benjamin A. Hardesty Fund of the Ayco Charitable Foundation Jeff and Julie Harris Family Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Elizabeth Gallagher Jeffery ’86 Elizabeth V. Jensen ’08 The Jewish Community Foundation of the West Kaufman/Weinberg Philanthropic Fund of The Jewish Community Foundation of the West JMD Donor Advised Fund of the Foundation For The Carolinas Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Joerger John M. Goss Charitable Gift Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund John and Mary Camp Foundation Karole Boggs Johns ’86 Dearing Ward Johns ’63 Abigail Ryalls Johnson ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Johnson Cynthia Jill Johnson ’72 Jan Pettypool Johnson ’74 Jennifer Brown Johnson ’02 Jorgee Boyles Johnson ’03 Margaret K. Johnson ’13 Melville Johnson Molly Katherine Johnson ’82 Priscilla Johnson Sarah Harrington Johnson ’88 Vicky Toof Johnson ’54 Alice Johnson Krendel ’72 Nicole Johnson Kaler ’96 Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Johnstone, Jr. Laura Rihl Joiner ’96 Mr. and Mrs. Tom Joiner Alison Jones ’71 Andrea Niles Jones ’73 fall 2019

Elizabeth Carper Hoffman ’54 Katherine Cooper Hoffman ’91 Louise Chapman Hoffman ’61 Sally Thomas Hoffman ’66 Katherine M. Hoffner ’84 Ms. Deborah K. Hogan Meaghan K. Hogan ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoilman Jennifer Frost Holden ’86 Katherine Judd Holland Lucie Stevens Holland ’82 Paula Hollingsworth-Thomas ’74 Elsbet Smith Hollywood ’04 Bridget O’Reilly Holmes ’83 Margaret Millender Holmes ’63 Emily Moravec Holt ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Sidney G. Holthaus, Jr. Jessica L. Holzer ’70 Barbara Lee Homiller ’69 Zeda Elizabeth Homoki-Titus ’94 Maria Garnett Hood ’61 Kristen Blair Hooper ’93 Ruth S. Hoopes ’69 Kathryn Levi Hoover ’81 Betsy Benoit Hoover ’65 Cynthia Heye Hopkins ’72 Joanne E. Hopkins ’98 Margaret Ellisor Hopkins ’76 Mr. and Mrs. William R. Horbatt Laura Lechler Hornef ’96 Leslie A. Hornor ’83 Elizabeth Mason Horsley ’90 Julie M. Horton ’20 Marshá Taylor Horton ’76 Elizabeth B. Hoskinson ’82 Ms. Elizabeth Bailey Hoskinson and Mr. Gary Finger Sue B. Hostetler Dr. and Mrs. Philip D. Houck Nancy Lea Houghton ’74 Dr. and Mrs. Alan Frazier Houston Elizabeth Meade Howard ’60 Pamela Howard Ruth Faulkner Howe ’48 Howe Foundation, Inc. Samuel Howell Sarah Butcher Howell ’95 Wanda Cronic Howell ’74 Nancy Gilbert Howland ’42 Carolyn Barr Hoyt ’70 Sarah McCrady Hubbard ’65 Susan Taylor Hubbard ’51 Jessica Gindlesperger Hubbell ’96 How Kum Kuan Hubler ’83

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Bambi Jones Anne Smith Jones ’61 Deborah L. Jones ’70 Dona Van Arsdale Jones ’64 Elizabeth Brooks Jones ’75 Elizabeth Ellisor Jones ’57 Emery Jones ’86 H. Daniel Jones III Lise Anne Boutiette and James D. Jones Andrea Renee Covault and Jeffrey Allan Jones Judith Cowen Jones ’60 Lauren E. Jones ’22 Louise Coleman Jones ’51 Mary Sexton Jones ’53 Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Jones, Jr. Peggy Jones ’65 Becky and Bill Jones Rosanna Jones-Thurman ’90 Whitney Smith Jordan ’01 Ms. Roberta Jorgensen and Mr. David Muga Ruina Wallace Judd ’61 Julie S. and Thomas B. Rentschler, Jr. Fund at the Hamilton Community Foundation Diane Jumet Ellen Nichols Jump ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Kable Serena Basten Kachinsky ’02 Meghan M. Kaiser ’17 Monika Kaiser ’82 and Richard Baray John H. Kallis Karen Cole Kallis ’89 Emily Clark Kang ’99 Gwen Speel Kaplan ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Kaplan Courtney Gross Kappler ’99 Susan Ray Karlson ’76 Katherine Seder Karon ’97 Neal Kassell Hilary Carlson Katerberg ’96 Ellen Marcus Kates ’45 Mr. William E. Katz (Martha Legg Katz ’52*) Lizbeth Lynn Kauffman ’82 Patricia Swinney Kaufman ’70 Kathleen A. Kavanagh ’74 Elizabeth Keating Michaels ’00 Hope Keating ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Keating, Jr. Alice Mitchell Keister ’70 Briggett J. Keith ’72 Janet Sheppard Kelleher ’75 Nicole Kelleher-Linkonis ’97 Lesslie Guthrie Keller ’69 Arthur Kellerman Adele Laslie Kellman ’67

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Barbara LaLance Kelly ’70 Catherine Grier Kelly ’75 Elizabeth C. Kelly ’79 Anna Platt Kemper ’64 Sara K. Kemper ’03 Carolyn Pyle Kennedy ’98 Kenton and Amy Brown Fund, a donor-advised fund of The Winston-Salem Foundation Mary Stevenson Fontaine Keown ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Irwin Kerley (Donna C. Kerley ’10) Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Kerlin Elizabeth Adair Pierpoint Kerrison ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kerschl Nancy D. Kershner ’90 and William R. Kershner Debra J. Kertzman ’81 Bonnie and Charles C.* Kestner Alexandria Hiribarne Khalsa ’96 Mr. and Mrs. William A. Kientz III Kevin Paul Kiger Elizabeth J. Kilgallin ’14 Christina Cotter Kilhefner ’98 Kimberly-Clark Foundation Elizabeth Scott Kimmel ’75 Brenda Darden Kincaid ’68 Kincaid and Allison Mills Fund at the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, Inc. Caroline Hamilton King ’11 Cary Davis King ’73 Elizabeth Gilkeson King ’93 Elizabeth Markgraf King ’50 Sarah Strother King ’64 Harriet Heiden Kirchhoff ’51 The Kirchhoff Family Charitable Fund of Vanguard Charitable Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride ’56 Katherine Anne Kirkwood ’04 Virginia Lynch Kiseljack ’84 Virginia MacKethan Kitchin ’59 Page M. Kjellstrom ’70 Deborah Davison Klein ’78 Mr. and Mrs. William F. Klein Dr. and Mrs. Scott A. Kleiner Charlotte Evans Klett ’73 Michelle Scherrer Klimt ’84 Jeanie Kline Laure Klopsis Linda Whitlow Knight ’71 Sarah Johnston Knoblauch ’74 The Rev. and Mrs. Peter N. Knost Rebecca Faxon Knowles ’55 Crayton Benson Knox ’98 Brooke Patterson Koehler ’65

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Kyle Koehler Martha Wallker Konvicka ’79 Kama Boswell Koudelka ’85 KPMG U. S. Foundation, Inc. Lynda Krause Melville Douglass Krebs ’69 Leanne Weber Kreis ’85 Creigh Casey Krin ’73 Amy Jane Kroeger ’90 Cathleen Cummings Krolczyk ’95 Elizabeth Landen Krone ’81 Bruce Watts Krucke ’54 James Kulikowski Jane Shipman Kuntz ’58 The Kuntz Foundation Priscilla Blackstock Kurz ’67 Kurz Family Giving Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Susan Herbert Kyle ’68 Sally Byron LaBarre ’79 Peter M. Labombarde Barbara Bullis LaFayette ’60 Ashley Rogers LaGanga ’05 Aileen H. Laing ’57 Dorothy Senghas Lakner Jennifer Stringfellow Lamanna ’01 Karen Holt Ashworth Lambert ’89 Muriel Wikswo Lambert ’66 Amy Campbell Lamphere ’80 Anna T. Lane Margaret Johnson Laney ’62 Hibernia Cuthbert Langley ’73 Willie Ann Newbury Lansing ’62 Shapleigh Donnelly LaPointe ’86 Reyhan Tansal Larimer ’62 Cara Ardemagni LaRoche ’92 Kirsten Vold Larsen ’84 Mary Pat Behnke Larsen ’66 Andrew Loy Larson Jeannine Petersen Laskey ’75 Wesley Powell Lassen ’89 Nancy Dew Lathrop ’67 Lynn M. Laufenberg Catharine King Laufer ’96 Blair Walker Lawrence ’68 Katherine Schuhmacher Lawrence ’60 Moira Erickson Lawrence ’80 Dorothy Moore Lawson ’59 Kathryn Elizabeth Lawson ’04 Laura Connerat Lawton ’62 Marilyn Clark Leathers ’54 Harriet Harrison Leavell ’81 Martha Dabney Leclere ’54 Donna Mihalik Gelagotis Lee ’78

DONOR HONOR ROLL Elizabeth M. Lee Nancy Fink Leeds ’57 Virginia Bennett Leeds ’88 Daniel Alexander Leggett Madeline E. Miller and Mr. H. Gordon Leggett, Jr. Rachel Bostain Legum ’03 Judy Nevins LeHardy ’59 Susan C. Lehman Olympia A. K. LeHota ’20 Sarah Hall Lehtinen ’09 Leslie Braginetz Lemish ’89 Nancy Newell Lennon ’64 Ruth Willingham Lentz ’74 Ann Colston Leonard ’47 Keedie Grones Leonard ’76 Harriet Ivey Leonard ’80 Rachel E. Leonard ’08 Jessica E. Leonardi ’07 Diane M. Leslie ’73 Page Brydon Leslie ’54 Emmy Sau Han Leung ’89 Christine Eng Leventhal ’73 Karen Harcum Levy ’86 Susan Mann Levy ’86 Cortney D. Lewandowski ’12 Naomi Lewin Elizabeth M. Lewis ’69 Helen Smith Lewis ’54 Jean Graceanne Lewis ’87 Jean Price Lewis Larry Lewis Lynn D. Lewis Sarah E. Lewis Lorie Teeter Lichtlen ’82 Virginia Sheaff Liddel ’52 Nancy Palermo Lietz ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Gary Lightbody Jane Perry Liles ’53 Camelot J. Lindauer ’93 Nancy Robinson Lindberg ’78 Wendy and Ryk Linden Karin Lindgren ’75 Susan Lynne Dickinson Lindner ’84 Mr. Douglas G. Lindsey (Sara McMullen Lindsey ’47*) Elizabeth R. Lindsey ’86 Mrs. Susan Lindsey Susan Anthony Lineberry ’79 Linda Lipscomb ’73 Kathryn Bird Lischick ’09 Suzanne Petrie Liscouski ’91 Suzanne M. Little ’68

Astrid M. B. Liverman ’98 June Krebs Liversage ’49 Gail P. Lloyd ’60 Jennifer Beck Locke ’96 Peggy Jean Fossett Lodeesen ’58 Whitney Bolt Loeber ’88 Rebecca Loewenthal Cheryl Harris Lofland ’79 Nan Dabbs Loftin ’81 Edna-Ann Osmanski Loftus ’72 Kelly Straughn Logan ’89 Katharine Fish Lohr ’09 Sarah Bryant Loken Martha Watson Lombardy ’82 Carroll C. Long ’67 Ellis B. Long ’63 Mary E. Long Randi Miles Long ’66 Savannah Humphrey Long ’05 Johanna Brown-Woodfin Lopez ’89 Harrah Lord ’66 Valerie Stoddard Loring ’59 Stephanie Belk Loter ’98 Hannah Lott Amy Tyler Louthan ’97 Mary C. Love ’70 Virginia Page Love ’50 Love Wins, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Sally Gray Lovejoy ’80 Nancy Morrow Lovell ’52 Candida Connard Low ’68 Anne Simonds Lowe ’78 Katharine Tilghman Lowe ’57 Virginia Bramlett Lowrance ’54 Kristen Whitney Lowrey ’87 Christine Smith Lowry ’57 Ann Key Lucas ’78 Perry Liles Lucas ’85 Wendy S. Lucia ’93 Jerry Dreisbach Ludeke ’54 Stacy Ludington ’12 Virginia Timmons Ludwick ’53 Ms. Carol Lukemeyer Betty Phillips Lupton ’58 Lisa M. Lussier ’03 Elizabeth Hanger Luther ’65 Barney Walker Lutsk ’65 Cheryl Lux ’76 Ary Jane Lotterhos Lyle ’60 Mary Lynn Lyle ’67 Mary Stollenwerck Lynch ’63 Patricia Sparks Lyndon ’68

Jennifer Swisher Lynes ’97 Elizabeth Francke Lynn ’74 Jennifer N. Lynn ’06 Jennifer Lyon Megan Coffield Lyon ’80 Mary Rhoda Mabry ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. MacDonald III Mary Steketee MacDonald ’62 Faith Bullis Mace ’61 Mrs. Marian D. MacGregor Sarah C. Machinist ’01 Whitney W. Machnik ’85 Amber Lee MacKay ’15 Elizabeth Eisinger Mackes ’86 Julie Whitehurst MacKinlay ’66 Brooke Hamilton MacKinnon ’62 Mr. and Mrs. John A. MacKinnon Monna Simpson MacLellan ’51 Nancy E. MacMeekin ’65 Tonia W. Macneil ’68 Marion MacRae ’67 MacRae Family Foundation Fund of ACT for Alexandria Jordan P. Macurak ’21 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Madden H. Owen Maddux Kristen Kestner Meta Bond Magevney ’63 Linda Poole Maggard ’75 Cecilia J. Mahan ’19 Sarah Mahan Katherine Cooley Maher ’68 Monica C. Mahoney ’89 Jennifer Schmidt Major ’99 Ann Vandersyde Malbon ’80 Ann South Malick ’75 Mariah Smith Malik ’86 Margaret Milnor Mallory ’76 Karen Malmquist ’90 Ann Marie E. Beatty Malone ’90 Audrey S. Malone ’21 Frances Redmond Malone ’77 Jane A. Maloney ’74 Laura A. Mangus ’89 Sue Corning Mann ’49 Alexandra Stewart Manwarren ’94 Marathon Oil Company Cynthia Wacholtz Marbut ’86 Mary Mahan Marco ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Dale R. Marfell Margaret A. Craw Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund

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DONOR HONOR ROLL Marie C. Reed Foundation, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Nancy Blackwell Marion ’74 Jeffrey Markert Mark and Ieke Scully Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Mary Shaw Halsey Marks ’74 Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Anne Randolph Marshall ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Marshall Diana E. Marshall ’04 Eleanora L. Marshall ’70 Edna L. Martin ’81 Harriet Wall Martin ’65 Jesse K. Martin ’02 Laura Rose Martin ’91 Molly Dunn Martin ’73 Peninah Meighan Martin ’58 Susan Elder Martin ’57 Ms. Delia E. Martinez Marcia Brandenburg Martinson ’74 Judith Harbottle Maselli ’68 Susan Hickman Mason ’95 Eleanor Gilmore Massie ’66 Lourine Mays Massie ’67 Elinor Vorys Matchneer ’54 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Mather Fionna J. Matheson ’98

Mary Matheson ’68 Ann C. Mathews ’69 Melanie Stembal Mathews ’68 Kathryn Carroll Mathewson ’66 Barbara Offutt Mathieson ’70 Mathieson Giving Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Elizabeth Howard Mattingly ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Mattingly, Jr. Nancy Fox Cunningham Mauck ’83 Helen Chatt Mauney ’10 Laura Maus Sarah Madison Maxey ’02 Emory Furniss Maxwell ’74 Judy Addison Mayberry ’67 Paul Mayberry Cathy Cash Mays ’84 Mr. and Mrs. William N. Mays Mary U. Mazgaj ’09 Caitlin Webber Mazzucca ’04 Karen Jaffa McGoldrick ’79 Virginia Tripp McAdams ’05 Emily Dick McAlister ’78 Andrew Scott McAllister Anne Stupp McAlpin ’68 Elli McBride Cynthia Hardy McCabe ’75 Erlend Carlton McCaffree ’54 Maline Gilbert McCalla ’60

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Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Barbara Beury McCallum ’61 Allison Jennings McCance ’64 Amy Thompson McCandless ’68 Shannon M. McCarthy ’16 Marilyn K. McClelland ’76 Bonnie Chapman McClure ’65 Polly Parker McClure ’83 Elizabeth Parker McColl ’63 Gary McCombs Meredith Leigh McCool Elizabeth Waring McCracken ’02 Amelia Wyly McDaniel ’94 George W. McDaniel Dorothy and Matt McDaniel Nancy Moss McDaniel ’65 Harriotte Dodson McDannald ’65 Emily Quinn McDermott ’80 Kathryn Mendelson McDonald ’60 Susan Strong McDonald ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McDonough Carter Donnan McDowell ’57 Elizabeth Kennon McElroy ’16 Mary Earle McElroy ’84 Sorrel Mackall McElroy ’59 Fiona Margaret McFadden ’12 Margaret Hoy McFadden ’72 Jane A. McFaddin ’73 Margaret S. McFaddin ’75 Joan M. McGettigan ’83

DONOR HONOR ROLL Jane Jamison Messer ’59 Mary Watt Messer ’83 Lisabeth S. Metzler ’81 Helene Mewborn Mary Trabue Meyer ’63 Patricia Stanton Meyer ’61 Petsy Gautier Mezey ’55 Jean Chaloux Miani ’72 Deborah Glazier Michael ’62 Rosalinda Guardabassi Michael ’77 Scott Michaels Estate of Julia Gray Saunders Michaux ’39* Amy Daugherty Michel ’96 Joan Hess Michel ’51 Joan Adriance Mickelson ’69 Julie Elizabeth Midgley ’08 Carolyn Grant Milden ’88 Lucy Chapman Millar ’83 Jarrett Dudley Millard ’70 Barbara Yocom Miller ’63 Catherine Adams Miller ’82 Chasity Clarke Miller ’04 Frances J. Miller Warren Moore Miller ’72 Jeannette Bush Miller ’71 Jenaveve Hoskins Miller ’93 Kathryn Montz Miller ’69 Keithley Rose Miller ’69 Kirsten Emma Miller ’10 Leslie Forbert Miller ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis N. Miller, Jr. Paul M. Miller Rebecca Denise Miller ’97 Sharon Resener Miller ’81 Laura McGlamery Million ’96 Elaine L. Mills ’74 Mr. and Mrs. James Mills Mr. and Mrs. Kincaid Mills Lindsay Elizabeth Mills ’09 and Stephanie Althoff Mills ’09 Julia Walton Milstead ’86 Katharine Crommelin Milton ’62 Meri T. Minatel-Schreiber ’89 Catherine Hollberg Minor ’90 Nancy Ettinger Minor ’56 Minor Foundation, Inc. Katharine Shaw Minton ’52 Kimberley Schmidt Miscavage ’01 Jennifer Green Mitchell ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mittelholtz Katharine A. Mockett ’66 Sarah Bonham Mohle ’77 Kelly Schmitt Molique ’94

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The Mona and Robert Armistead Fund, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation Juliette Monet Carolyn Westfall Monger ’57 Sue Monk and Joe Monk Mary Gillespie Monroe ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Carrington Montague Jackelinne R. Montero ’13 Angela Browning Montgomery ’01 Denise L. Montgomery ’75 Elizabeth Apple Montinaro ’88 Benjamin Mooney Dorothy Lear Mooney ’78 Jane D. Mooney ’77 Catherine Taylor Moore ’78 Cecilia A. Moore ’88 Franklin Moore Kara D’Ambra Dickey Moore ’95 Maria Kitchin Moore ’04 Mary Varn Moore ’72 Sally Hamilton Moore ’61 Sarah Jane Murdock Moore ’59 Kimberly Roda Moorhead ’95 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Daniel Mooza Mrs. Diana W. Moran Hannah Craighill Morehead ’79 Daria O. Morgan ’65 Mr. and Mrs. John Luther Morgan III Megan Lincoln Morgan ’76 Lena Marie Morrill ’11 Carter Heyward Morris ’73 Christina Babcock Morris ’86 Drs. David and Susan Morris Laurel Roe Morris Marilyn Garabrant Morris ’66 Miriam Baker Morris ’83 Jane Clark Morrison ’79 Morrison Family Foundation, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Ms. Norma Morrison Betty Booker Morriss ’66 Melissa Cope Morrissette ’83 Vaughan Inge Morrissette ’54 John Morrissey Margaret Moran Morrow ’67 Elvira Whitehead Morse ’48 Jenny Mortimore Caperton Morton ’85 Mary Payne Morton ’64 Monique Moshier ’02 Marguerite McKee Moss ’66 Virginia Blair Moss ’98

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Ms. Nancy Call McGill Sarah Dean McGill ’66 Dorothy Courington McGinley ’72 K. Holly McGlothlin ’78 Martha E. McGrady and Yeong Kheavy Loke Thelma Houk McGrory ’57 Mary Boyd McGuire ’89 Catherine Roberts McHaney ’55 Comber R. McHugh ’86 Louise Dempsey McKean ’71 Virginia Ready McKeel ’62 Lauren Friend McKelvey ’03 Becky Mulvihill McKenna ’78 Ms. Renee McKenney Stephanie Lyon Pratt McKinney ’91 Sarah E. McLemore ’08 Mary Horner McLeod ’57 Sherrie Snead McLeRoy ’74 Kathryn Cunningham McMahon ’97 Elizabeth J. McMartin ’79 Carl McMillan Lynne Pottharst McMillan ’69 Ms. Jacqueline McMillian Elizabeth D. McMullen ’68 Janie Willingham McNabb ’67 Barbara Bailey McNeal ’68 Leyte C. McNealus ’18 Ms. Lisa McNealus Heather Marianne McTague ’11 Sheila M. McWilliams ’92 Caren J. Meade ’06 Frances deSaussure Meade ’68 Mr. Robert S. Meade Mary Beeler Meadows ’69 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Meadows III Katherine Turner Mears ’53 Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Hill Mebane Medica Health Insurance Rebecca Bottomley Meeker ’71 Miriam Washabaugh Meglan ’71 Carson Freemon Meinen ’80 Virginia Borah Meislahn ’62 Linda Pattberg Meixner ’68 Anne Milbank Mell ’71 Anne Ford Melton ’57 Frances Crispin Davis Menefee ’98 Susan Somerville Menson ’68 Carolyn Foster Meredith ’61 Eve G. Mergenthaler ’16 Meriwether-Godsey Angela Elliott Merrick ’98 Anne Rhett Taylor Merrill ’69 Wendy B. Merrill Carolyn M. Mertes

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Virginia Harsh Mossburg ’83 Lorelei Bahret Mote ’94 Joy Reynolds Mouledoux ’84 Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Mountcastle, Jr. Patricia Mountrey ’68 Sarah Mouri ’06 Mr. Alan F. Rothschild, Jr. through The Fort Trustee Fund, CFCV Mr. and Mrs. James F. Gallivan, Gallivan Family Advised Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Blanche Mudry Jeanne Weaver Mueller ’80 Anne Carroll Mulholland ’56 Amy Elizabeth Mullen ’02 Audrey H. Mullen ’89 Patti Snodgrass Mullins ’82 Linde Mullis Carole E. Munn ’67 Catharine Adams Murphy ’72 Dagmar Stoll Murphy ’64 Elizabeth Burdge Murphy ’75 Helen Turner Murphy ’56 Kelly Lauren Murphy ’10 Mary Petree Murphy ’70 Bettina Patterson Murray ’64 Caroline Tuttle Murray ’71 Christine Kulczycki Murray ’68 Courtney Cash Mustin ’68 Kerry Keins Mutschelknaus ’04 Katherine Johnston Myatt ’64 Christina Hoefer Myers ’75 Katharine Vaughan Myers ’06 Susan Waller Nading ’72 National Christian Foundation Carolinas Frederika Merriman Naylor ’55 Emma Malone Neave ’12 Jan Jennings Need ’05 Candace Sheffield Neilson ’73 Anne Garrity Nelson ’79 Courtney L. Nelson ’20 Harriet Hurley Nelson ’60 Howard Page Nelson Jennifer M.Gaudette Nelson ’95 Julie Hildebrand Nelson ’96 Patricia Smith Nelson ’48 Network For Good Jan Armstrong Neuenschwander ’57 Susannah M. Nevison New York Life Foundation Anna L. Newberg ’11 Carol D. Newman ’71 Meredith B. Newman ’09 Lindsay Smith Newsom ’67

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Beth Ann Trapold Newton ’86 Betsy Knode Newton ’65 Louise Cooke Newton ’82 Pamela Tipton Newton ’69 Lillian Pham Nguyen ’52 Joseph J. Nicholls Martha Clay Nichols ’56 Karen Gonya Nickles ’86 Barbara Ashton Nicol ’74 Anne Irvine Nicolson ’83 Britton Hassell Nielsen ’67 Diana Crandall Nielsen ’84 Catherine Winship Nihem ’95 Molly Reeb Nissman ’77 Nancy Nix-Karnakis ’63 Louise Konsberg Noll ’44 Nicole Noll Lindsay Crumpler Nolting ’42 Lynn Watson Norfleet ’74 Anne Garrett Norloff ’72 Kimberly Knox Norman ’85 Mary Kyger Norman ’70 Mary Humelsine Norment ’68 Dorsey Tillett Northrup ’75 Julie Seibels Northup ’68 Ms. Mary Norvell Mary Bush Norwood ’74 Pamela Noyes ’69 Virginia Marchant Noyes ’59 Beth Slayman Nubbe ’84 Mercedith M. Nuesca ’05 Julie Brooks Nyquist ’90 Andrea Williams Oakes ’89 Ann Shipper Oates ’71 Nathalie C. Oates ’13 Mrs. Donald R. Ober Martha Bulkley O’Brien ’59 Susan Murphy O’Brien ’74 Anita McVey O’Connor ’73 Cecily Bay O’Connor Denise Wisell O’Connor ’71 Eleanor R. O’Connor ’07 Beth Gottlieb O’Connor ’89 Shawn William O’Connor Mr. Lawrence N. Odence H’55 (Susanna Bernard Odence ’55*) Janice P. O’Donnell ’75 Magnolia F. O’Donnell ’18 Linda J. Odum ’72 Ashley Thorner Oelrich ’96 Deborah Mutch Olander ’76 Josephine Noland Old ’66 Old Dominion Box Foundation, Inc. Deborah Fischer Oleisky ’85

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Shirley M. Oliver ’84 Suzanne Marie O’Loughlin ’98 Mr. and Mrs. James A. O’Neal, Jr. Leslie Sidwell O’Neal ’03 Barbara Callahan O’Neill ’84 Nora S. Oney ’92 Barbara Falge Openshaw ’57 Ellen O. Oppenheimer Orange Tree Foundation Dina Ruth Orbison ’00 Mary Beth Miller Orson ’86 Amy Boyce Osaki ’83 Carol Osborn ’69 Mary Anne Osborn ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Albert V. Osterholm, Jr. Anne Osterholm ’96 and Gregory Pribble Amy Marian Ostroth Dejerianne Ostrow ’96 Drucilla Springer Oswalt ’78 Susan C. O’Toole ’73 Caroline Heltzel Overstreet ’12 Elizabeth Donald Owen ’89 Elizabeth Farmer Owen ’62 Ann Prichard Pace ’61 Elizabeth Conner Pace ’86 Wilma L. Packard ’70 Barbara Rose Page ’83 Ben Page Donna G. Page Anna Chao Pai ’57 Jennifer Trzupek Pala ’96 Mr. James Lee Palazzolo and Ms. Barbara L. Wuehrmann, MD Mr. and Mrs. Carmen J. Palermo Clifton W. Pannell Mrs. Winnie P. Pannell Kathy Gagnon Pappas ’81 Leila Kucewicz Parham ’63 Julia Paris ’99 Dr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Parker Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Parker Patricia V. Parker ’75 Margaret Weimer Parrish ’76 Megan Fletcher Parry ’96 Sara Buttine Parsatoon ’11 Dr. Lynn Pasquerella Nina Pastuhov ’83 Maggie Saylor Patrick ’07 Emily Sartor Patterson ’99 Taylor Renee Patterson ’16 Olivia Cantey Patton ’53 Cathryn Gray Paul ’69 Lindsay Eneguess Paulette ’11

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Mr. and Mrs. John J. Petchul Elaine Newton Peters ’57 Melanie Chriscoe Peters ’97 C. Gregg Petersmeyer Mr. and Mrs. William J. Petrie Desiree A. Petrus ’86 Almena Hill Pettit ’69 Pettit Family Community Fund of the Community Foundation of North Florida Lauretta Scovel Pfeifer ’84 Darelle A. Pfeiffer ’98 Christine Weiss Pfeil ’74 Anne Allen Pflugfelder ’54 Mr. and Mrs. Jay Phaup Mr. and Mrs. George G. Phillips, Jr. Laura Haskell Phinizy ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Stanley Phister, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Edward H. Piepmeier, Jr. Lucinda Lawrence Pierce ’72 Margaret Booth Pierce ’45 Bonnie Blew Pierie ’67 Rachel A. Pietsch Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Pike Hannah L. Pillsbury ’74 C. Cotesworth Pinckney Helen Raney Pinckney ’66 Lauren Martin Pinion ’06 Nancy Mortensen Piper ’74

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Stephanie Beaudouin Piper ’69 Ellen Ober Pitera ’93 Bonnie L. Pitman ’68 Briana Beckham Pitt ’04 Pitts Giving Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Betsy Brawner Pittman ’59 Julia S. Pittman ’11 Amy Jo Downing Pitts ’99 Ruth Carpenter Pitts ’58 Kathleen S. Placidi Claudia Forman Pleasants ’70 Virginia Penn Plexico ’61 PNC Bank Foundation Janice E. Pogue ’71 Dana Bordvick Poleski ’98 Virginia Spangler Polley ’76 Saynor Johnson Ponder ’57 Miranda Ponton Ponton-Dean ’05 Emily L. Poore ’99 Eleanor Cain Pope ’58 Poplar Grove Ardis Fratus Porter ’48 Catherine Porter ’68 Elisabeth Scott Porter ’64 Kirsten A. Porter-Stransky ’09 April Collins Potterfield ’96 Thom Potts

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Paulett and Ganson Taggart Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Marie-Elysse B. Paulhus ’01 Susan Verbridge Paulson ’76 Leslie Davis Paxton ’62 Brenda Childress Payne ’88 Aimee Armentrout Peacemaker ’99 Phoebe Brunner Peacock ’68 Susan Kirby Peacock ’73 Mr. Franklin V. Peale, Jr. Parker Shultis Pearson ’90 Angelina Marlene Peck ’14 Barbara Behrens Peck ’78 Sally Shapard Peek ’82 Ms. Helen C. Peemoelle and Mr. Ben Simon Carolyn Clark Pegg ’63 Carol Cole Pelzer ’65 Jacqueline Coles Penny ’71 PepsiCo Foundation Mitzi Perdue Virginia Stanford Perdue ’69 Lauren Michelle Perhala ’12 Mr. David W. Perkins Perrin Henderson Fund of the Foundation For The Carolinas Helene Perry ’57 Sally Sharrett Perryman ’62

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Averala Paxton Poucher ’57 Anne Litle Poulet ’64 Catherine Cleveland Powell ’95 Jeanne Forsyth Powell ’68 Judith B. Powell ’69 Margaret Morris Powell ’54 Ann Kerr Preaus ’66 Barbara Prentiss ’73 Ann Tippin Prestney ’71 Barbara Mendelssohn Price ’78 Mary Lanford Price ’91 Rachel Baltus Price ’96 Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP Elizabeth Cate Pringle ’62 Pringle-Read Endowment of Coastal Community Foundation of SC Martha Bennett Pritchett Conner ’68 Anne K. Proctor ’07 Elizabeth Proctor ’84 Cynthia Gridley Pruden ’71 Cynthia Bumgardner Puckett ’98 Elissa Pugh ’00 Dana W. Purcell ’98 Robin Sue Purcell Virginia Stevens Purcell ’72 M. Claire McDonnell Purnell ’81 Louise Durham Purvis ’62 Serena K. Putegnat ’98 Daisy E.A. Quarm ’70 Leslie Heye Quarrier ’62 Consuelo Martinez Quattrocchi ’82 Cecilia Robertson Queen ’75 James B. Query Elena Quevedo ’83 Meredith Borst Quillman ’78 Catherine Catlett Quinlan ’76 Stacey Hannan Quinn ’89 Melissa Murray Quinones ’87 Catherine Raeder Wallis Wickham Raemer ’70 Marcia Pollock Ragsdale ’70 Carolyn Rogers Rainbow ’70 Dr. and Mrs. Dudley A. Raine, Jr. Lynn Rainville Janet Rakoczy ’78 Shanti Ramesh ’06 Gail Anderson Ramey ’64 Mr. and Mrs. Raul Ramos Bonnie Damianos Rampone ’75 Col. and Mrs. Donald A. Ramsay, Ret. Melody McCormick Randall ’64 Milbrey Sebring Raney ’65 Pamela J. Rasche ’73 Nancy Pesek Rasenberger ’51

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Carolyn King Ratcliffe ’60 Mary Scott Rauch ’62 Shaina Jetha Rawji ’93 Katherine Rose Rawls ’75 Mary Lyman Ray ’71 Shannon Young Ray ’84 Betty Forbes Rayburn ’56 Melissa Gail Raymond ’12 Michelle D. Raymond ’09 Raytheon Company Ellen Pringle Read ’60 Cynthia Rakow Readyhough ’96 Estate of Ann Morrison Reams ’42* Red Hat Matching Gifts Program Gretchen Armstrong Redmond ’55 Nancy Bullard Reed ’66 Patsey Carney Reed ’62 Kathryn Ingham Reese ’88 Kimberly H. Reese ’04 Barbara L. Regester ’12 Elisabeth Burwell Reichard ’84 Ashton E. Reid ’17 Mary Reid Roach ’74 Brian Reidy Mr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Reidy Sarah Reidy-Ferguson ’96 Diane Dale Reiling ’73 Kirsten M. Reinhart ’20 Ann Moore Remington ’44 Alicia Mariane Renfrow ’03 Page Munroe Renger ’67 Robin Ould Rentsch ’60 Julie Smith Rentschler ’80 Mary Beirne Rewcastle Anne Leavell Reynolds ’63 Catherine Cox Reynolds ’49 Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Reynolds Marguerite Morgan Reynolds ’65 Vanessa K. Rhodes ’90 Lucy Batten Ricardo Susan Bloomer Rice ’69 Anne H. Richards ’84 Melissa Farmer Richards Michael D. Richards Robbin Richardson ’71 Sarah Haskell Hulcher ’67 Meredith K. Richel ’05 Mr. and Mrs. Steven Richel Celia Loving Richeson ’58 Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Richeson (Celia Loving ’58) Victoria Clarendon Richter ’80 Amy Dickson Riddell ’92 Deborah Luby Rie ’68

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Melissa Greenwood Riemer ’75 Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Rihl Elizabeth Hansbrough Riley ’13 Hollylane Riley ’06 Mary Cosby Rinehart ’61 Carroll Weitzel Rivers ’57 Alice Haywood Robbins ’65 Sabryna McClung Roberson ’93 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nancie Howe Entenmann Roberts ’56 Sarah Dennis Roberts ’96 Roberts and Allison Brokaw Family Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Brooke Robertson Katie Clarkson Robertson ’97 Edith Brooke Robertson ’50 Jane Nexsen Robertson ’69 Raina S. Robeva Susan Scott Robinette ’63 Deborah Schmidt Robinson ’89 Captain and Mrs. Evan D. Robinson Julie Anne Dopheide ’13 Kelly L. Robinson ’04 Olive Wilson Robinson ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Roby Robinson Kathryn Robinson Hillestad ’89 Nicole Balding Roca Ann T. Rockwell ’80 Laurel Speilman Rodgers ’03 Sarah Weigel Rodriguez ’89 Lee Carroll Roebuck ’87 Thomas Allyn Rogers Virginia Luscombe Rogers ’50 Lynn Kahler Rogerson ’76 Kelli M. Rogowski ’99 Sarah Bradford Rohr ’01 Blair Josephs Rohrer ’69 Susan Castle Rolewick ’74 Ms. Melissa Rollosson and Mr. William Murphy Frances A. Root ’80 Leslie Wright Root ’83 Mary Ann Mellen Root ’53 Mary K. Rora ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Rora Nan Locke Rosa ’53 Rachelle Colquitt Rose ’97 Carla L. Rosenbloom and H. David Rosenbloom Anne Sargeant Rosenthal ’81 Amy Biathrow Ross ’94 Katharine M. Roth ’88 Nancy Buckey Rothacker ’86 Jewett Winn Rothschild ’83 Jennifer A. Rotman ’84

DONOR HONOR ROLL Jennifer Kirby Savin ’84 Wendy Savino Diana Simrell Savory ’66 Jana L. Sawicki ’74 Elizabeth Miller Sayler ’55 Ms. Laurie Bell and Mr. Charles Saylor Sweet Briar College Alumnae Club of Roanoke Laura Jane Schaefer ’07 Kathryn Smith Schauer ’56 Deborah Byers Schechter ’72 Debra Schellhammer Katherine Maxwell Schellhammer ’95 Christina Bacchiani Schieffelin ’68 Gracie Tredwell Schild ’82 Georgia Schley Ritchie ’80 Kathryn Sell Schlosberg ’59 Anne Parker Schmalz ’62 L. Angelyn Schmid ’87 Jennifer Wiley Schmidt ’06 Marylew Redd Schmieg ’83 Julia M. Schmitz, PhD ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Schmitz Mr. and Mrs. Edgar W. Schneider, Jr. Linda-Jean Smith Schneider ’76 Elizabeth Kopper Schollaert ’64 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schreiber Alexa T. Schriempf ’97 Vikki A. Schroeder ’87 Judith Greer Schulz ’61 Mary Boehling Schwartz ’81 Nancy Hatch Schwartzmiller ’79 Anna Garrer Scott ’60 ’60 Constance A. Scott ’74 Glenn Scott Joyce M. Scott ’05 Prudence Sandifer Scott ’59 Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Scott Margaret Scouten Cornelia Harrison Scribner ’62 Ann Harwood Scully ’64 Ieke Osinga Scully ’78 Elizabeth Duke Seaman ’59 Stella Mae Renchard Seamans ’67 Mr. and Mrs. John Raymond Sears III Mary Lou Morton Seilheimer ’63 Seilheimer Foundation Bonnie L. Seitz ’01 Pamela Dickens Sellars ’83 Sandra Compton Sellman ’89 Mira Selm Anne Frierman Sewell ’84 Antoinette F. Seymour Cannie Crysler Shafer ’78 Harriet Houston Shaffer ’64

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Pamela Leary Shandrick ’66 Patricia L. Shannon ’74 Elizabeth Hutchins Sharland ’61 Janeen K. Sharma ’96 Elizabeth Cahill Sharman ’84 Rosemary Smith Sharp ’67 Andrea L. Sharretts ’99 Mary MacKenzie Shaw ’61 Dr. Travis Shaw Laura Wolcott Shea ’12 Kathleen Tyler Sheldon ’59 Shell Oil Company Foundation Nancy Anderson Shepard ’55 Rebecca Patton Shepard ’63 Cindy Harper Sherrell ’88 Julia Shields ’62 Shields1117B Fund for Charitable Enrichment: Stockholdings Unsold, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Anne Ross Shipe ’75 Mr. and Mrs. E. Reiman Shober, Jr. Erin Shore Margaret Shortlidge ’06 Virginia Yelverton Showalter ’67 Anne Whitney Bay Shuck ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Freeman Shuford, Jr. Megan E. Shuford ’16 Heather Dorothy Shumaker ’04 Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Sidles Penelope Steketee Sidor ’66 M. Todd Sigler ’66 Silicon Valley Community Foundation Courtney Arnott Silverthorn ’03 Anne Smith Simet ’63 Amy Ann Simmons ’86 Elizabeth Perkinson Simmons ’78 Margaret Lawrence Simmons ’49 Gloria R. Simon Sophie Simonard ’98 Joseph Simons Diana K. Simpson ’08 Ann Connolly Simpson ’80 Kendra Hawkins Simpson ’07 Martha L. Simpson Susan D. Sinclair and Louis Burns Mary Todd Singh ’59 Martha Bickham Singleton ’71 Mr. and Mrs. James W. Sinner Anne Sinsheimer ’51 Sirius XM Radio, Inc. Judith E. Sirkis Betty C. Skeen ’07 Ginger Carter Skoog ’97 Jennifer Slade Belovsky ’71

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Mr. and Mrs. Karl Roulston Susan Hight Rountree ’59 Wendy Wise Routh ’75 Megan Thomas Rowe ’01 Victoria Nalle Rowland ’66 Nancy Rubens Donna Daniels Rubin ’76 Paige Kaylor Ruddy ’10 Eden L. Rue ’89 Jill Steenhuis Ruffato ’80 Suzanne Ruffin ’61 Teresa Baldus Rugeley ’84 Meriwether Hagerty Rumrill ’59 Caitlin Sundby Russell ’94 Cornelia Sage Russell Graham Maxwell Russell ’79 Lynn Pearson Russell ’69 Susan Clay Russell ’81 Adelaide M. Russo ’68 Fleming Parker Rutledge ’59 Mary Leith Rutrough ’52 Helen Jenkins Ryan ’68 Kathleen E. Ryan ’08 Margaret Christian Ryan ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Ryan Key S. Ryang Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ryder Emelia Weatherly Ryder ’22 Eugenia Bull Ryner ’67 Nicole M. Sabovik ’19 Jessica Porter Sadeq ’04 Acacia Marie Salazar ’15 Sarah Andres Sale ’90 Shelby Lewis Salerno ’11 Hilary Harris Salley ’87 Shannon Salmon ’71 Christie Calder Salomon ’64 Jessica Salvatore Magdalena Salvesen ’65 Margaret Lyle Samdahl ’72 Courtney L. Sames ’06 Fernanda Castelli Sammis ’62 Nicholas E. Sanders Julia Grosvenor Sanford ’80 Betty Rau Santandrea ’70 Margaret Elizabeth Stookey Sargent ’88 Jessica McCarthy Sarolli ’08 Polly Sattler ’88 Deborah Hooker Sauers ’74 Catherine Callender Sauls ’86 Elma L. Savage ’68 M. Christina Hegarty Savage ’73 Mr. Robert. E. Savage (Ann Orr Savage ’48*)

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Carter Van Deventer Slatery ’49 Mr. and Mrs. William C. Slattery Emily Hunter Slingluff ’55 Jacqueline Sloves Deborah B. Slutz ’10 Wylie Jameson Small ’83 Catherine Brownlee Smeltzer ’59 Alene Smith Ann R. Smith ’74 Ann Whittingham Smith ’52 Anne G. Smith ’86 Bethannie Swisher Smith ’01 Blair Beebe Smith ’87 Carolyn L. Smith ’53 Catherine Cassidy Smith ’81 Charles Lee Smith III Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Noel Smith Elizabeth Oakley Smith ’73 Ellen Bryan Tozzer Smith ’87 Emily Pleasants Smith ’65 Frances Street Smith ’52 Gloria Smith Hallie Darby Smith ’67 Jacob Wade Smith Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth K. Smith Lochrane Coleman Smith ’76 Margaret Lotterhos Smith ’54 Olivia Trees Smith ’14 Peggy Arduser Smith ’58 Sally Smith ’63 Sheila Haskell Smith ’61 Teresa Powell Smith ’82 Nancy Gayle Smith-Jackson ’82 Elizabeth Shelton Smolens ’75 Alice Allen Smyth ’62 Amy Hess Snawder ’00 Susanne Williams Snead ’64 Judith Whitacre Snider ’62 Kathleen M. Snyder ’20 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis S. Soliwoda Jane Hamill Sommer ’65 Andrea Beerman Sonfield ’68 Suzette Morton Sorenson ’47 Lorna Allen Sorley ’68 Nikki M. Soulsby ’09 Katherine Blythe Southerland ’69 Susan Moorman Southworth ’66 Epiphany Danielle Soward ’15 Nancy Lumpkin Sowers ’89 Tracy Glaves Spalding ’84 Judith Dunn Spangenberg ’64 Cynthia Hubard Spangler ’63 Rosalind Ray Spell ’74 Arielle Sperrazza ’15

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Virginia Beeland Spigener ’84 Monica Saumweber Spillias ’73 Katharine Osborne Spirtes ’75 Joan Hobbs Spisso ’72 Marian Spivey-Estrada ’01 Laura Saunders Spratley ’66 Ingrid Weirick Squires ’86 Elizabeth Morriss Srinivasan ’85 Amy B. St. John ’06 Carol Ann Leslie St. John ’75 Victoria A. Stacpoole ’20 Helen Graves Stahmann ’52 Wenllian Jenkins Stallings ’47 Caville Stanbury-Woolery ’06 Jane Johnson Stanek ’68 Mrs. Gloria T. Stanford DJ Stanhope ’81 David Stanley Virginia Williams Stanley ’66 Mr. and Mrs. James Beach Stanton (Christina Benson Stanton ’97) Gary Stanton Margaret Stanton Sarah Anderson Stanton ’89 Peter Marcus Staples Sarah Riggs Stapleton ’01 Starke Foundation Andrea Marie Stassi ’04 Clélie D. D. Steckel and Joshua A. Barrow Estate of Louisa Steeble ’23* Jane Street Steele ’56 Kathleen Pretzfelder Steele ’73 Linda Lucas Steele ’75 Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Steele, Jr. Victoria K. Steele ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Steenwyk Janice Renne Steffen ’74 Melanie Bowen Steglich ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Lars Steib Lucinda Lowry Stein ’61 Barbara H. Steiner Celia Newberg Steingold ’68 Stephanie B. Steinmetz ’93 Anne Stelle ’78 Stephen and Clara Smiley Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Aja Grosvenor Stephens ’02 Jocelyn M. Stephens ’11 Tamara Stephens Patricia Cesak Stephenson ’73 Dr. and Mrs. Steven L. Stephenson Renee Sterling ’73 Annie Ward Stern ’66

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Margaret Jones Steuart ’54 Amanda Davis Stevens ’02 Catherine McNease Stevens ’86 Elizabeth Little Stevens ’77 Stacy McKimm Stevens ’97 Lisa Claypool Stevenson ’89 Alice Fales Stewart ’64 Philip and Joan Stewart Charlotte Snead Stifel ’52 Amanda Stiff Still Waters Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Alison Stockdale ’00 Mary Copeland Stockton ’96 Anne Stoddard ’68 Anne K. Stokes ’75 Anne Green Stone ’53 Elizabeth Smith Stone ’58 Hattie Hughes Stone ’54 Jacqueline Hekma Stone ’59 Stonehall Farm Bonnie Moe Stook ’72 Catherine H. Stopher ’69 Suzanne Elisabeth Stovall Clarke ’84 Jesse Durham Strauss ’96 Lynn Gullett Strazzini ’67 Jill O’Ree Stryker ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Stuckwisch Prudence Gay Stuhr ’63 Stupp Bros Bridge-Iron Co. Harriette Horsey Sturges ’66 Pamela Sinex Subalusky ’69 Elizabeth Nelson Suhr ’87 Mr. and Mrs. David B. Sullivan Rachael Sullivan Carroll Waters Summerour ’75 Susan T. and Eric G. Friberg Fund of Coastal Community Foundation of SC Marie E. Sushka ’67 Cornelia Kennedy Suskind ’81 Amanda Megargee Sutton ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Sutton Sarah Sutton ’83 Kristin Amylon Swain ’74 Scarlett E. Swain ’98 Martha Madden Swanson ’66 Lurline Tolbert Sweet ’65 Melinda Moore Sweet ’60 Sweet-Held Charitable Trust, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Dr. and Mrs. James A. Swenberg Jennifer McDonaugh Swiatek ’02 Mary Taylor Swing ’58

DONOR HONOR ROLL Marcia J. Thom-Kaley Alice Wood Thompson ’59 Cathy Weiss Thompson ’74 Christie Sears Thompson ’05 Grace Quirk Thompson ’88 Patricia Beach Thompson ’52 Susan Boline Thompson ’80 Joan Vail Thorne ’51 James Edward Thornhill Elizabeth Schneider Thornton ’80 Leslie C. Thornton ’75 Mary Catherine Hawley Thornton ’11 Eleanor St. Clair Thorp ’58 Christopher Kilcullen Thurlow ’65 Deborah Massie Thurman ’76 Ellen R. Thurman ’68 Payson Jeter Tilden ’65 Mary Bell Timberlake ’67 Lida Matthews Tingley ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Jim Tinsman, Jr. Maria Jones Tisdale ’75 Katherine Paige Tisher ’13 Sherilyn Irving Titus ’69 Janet Smalley Todd ’78 Elizabeth McMahan Tolbert ’57 Toledo Community Foundation, Inc. Edward Deal Tompkins Tompkins Giving Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carlton Tosh Terry Starke Tosh ’75 Tara Day Toth ’98 Mary Craighill Tourgee ’81 Angela H. Toussaint Laura Ann Humphress Toussaint ’06 Anita Grymes Towell ’60 Katy Warren Towers ’70 Linda W. Towers ’96 Cynthia Little Townsend ’79 Anne P. Toxey ’86 Christine Corcoran Trauth ’85 Travelers Companies, Inc. Helen W. Travis ’74 Holly Brooke James Trent ’97 Cathy Trezza Kathy Ann Trimble ’69 Mary Montelle Tripp ’82 Stephanie Banton Troutman ’91 Genivieve Ann Troxell ’03 Heidi L. Trude ’07 Victoria Anne Trudeau ’11 Ann Kays Tsuji ’96 Carol Exnicios Tucker ’53 Gretchen Gravely Tucker ’98 and Scott Tucker

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Greyson Shuff Tucker ’72 Lacey C. Tucker ’20 Susan Enns Tully ’63 Kathleen Stevenson Turner ’64 Lee Daughtridge Turner ’64 Louisa Z. Turner ’62 Nicole Brandt Turner ’06 Pamela Myre Turner ’75 Sidney Turner ’66 Harriet Newman Twigg ’74 Michal S. Twine ’68 Miranda A. Tyler ’16 Patricia Lynn Longest Tyler ’80 Elizabeth Tyree-Taylor ’71 Amy Tyson Linda R. Uihlein ’77 Suzanne Stryker Ullrich ’78 Ann Martin Goldmann Uloth ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy H. Ulsaker Virginia Everett Ulsaker ’07 Lori Waller Underwood ’85 Susan Knapp Hurley Upshaw ’99 Pilar Uribe ’84 The U. S. Charitable Gift Trust Elizabeth Byrne Utterback ’79 Carolyn Rose Vaccaro ’11 Virginia Jones Vail ’59 Mary Blair Scott Valentine ’59 Norma Stieh Bulls Valentine ’93 Sally Schall Van Allen ’42 Barbara Dublin Van Cleve ’66 Katharine Weinrich van Geel ’65 Ann Pritchett Van Horn ’74 McKenzie Reed van Meel ’86 Beverly Van Zandt ’71 Lucy Dennington Van Zandt ’73 Sharon Singletary Vanzant ’69 Kelly Brown Varga ’88 Susanna Varghese ’84 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Vari Mr. and Mrs. Roy B. Varnado Lyssa Ann Vaught ’95 Paula A. Veale ’86 Melissa Leib Veghte ’74 Mrs. Megan Combs Veney ’09 Dorothy Barnum Venter ’35 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Verbridge Susan Hampton VerNooy ’70 Wanda Vest Annabelle B. Vesterman ’16 Britt Vice Marion Harrison Vickers ’67 Virga Ventures LLC Virginia Commission for the Arts fall 2019

Elizabeth Smith Swoope ’83 Katharine Baker Sydnor ’66 Sarah Herndon Sydnor ’01 Sandra LaStaiti Sylvia ’59 Rebecca Trulove Symons ’79 Angela Szczesny Sophie Wackenhut Szymanski ’02 T & N Printing, Inc. Caroline L. Tade ’08 Ms. Ariana Tadler Penelope Tadler ’91 Paulett Long Taggart ’44 Margaret Cromwell Taliaferro ’49 Marcia Dutton Talley Margaret Robinson Tallmadge ’81 Amelia Watkins Tankard ’87 Joie Roderick Tankard ’90 Caroline Lewis Taraschi ’87 Leila Thompson Taratus ’56 Carol Moseley Tash ’69 Taylor-Tyree Family Trust Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Ann Alleva Taylor ’84 Ann T. Taylor ’58 Carol Eckman Taylor ’64 John K. Taylor Kathleen Watson Taylor ’65 Evangeline Easterly Taylor ’00 Mary Satterfield Taylor ’74 Sandra A. Taylor ’74 Sarah Goldstein Taylor ’09 Ann Collins Teachout ’54 Madeleine Long Tellekamp ’67 Mary Kimball Temple ’52 Toni E. Termotto and David J. Termotto Patricia Hassler Terrell ’47 Martha Roton Terry ’71 Ms. Ashley Tessmer Beth Bogdan Tetrault ’79 Deborah L. Thacker ’77 Maria Thacker Goethe ’02 Elizabeth Ball Thagard ’60 Jean Mackenzie Thatcher ’71 Penelope Writer Theis ’64 Caroline Keller Theus ’64 Cynthia Thiele ’92 Emma G. Thom ’18 Catherine L. Thomas ’98 Caroline M. Thomas ’19 Kay Morcom Thomas ’96 Mary Sue Morrison Thomas ’72 Penelope A. Thomas ’72 Cassandra Lynn Thomas ’97

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Lindsay Mactavish Vogt ’96 Cynthia H. Volk ’83 Elizabeth Volkmann Anne Souder von Weise ’86 Sarah P. vonRosenberg ’72 Madge Hall Vosteen ’85 Sarah Swift Voyles ’53 W. M. Jordan Company, Inc. W. Robert Paine Gallery Mr. and Mrs. Bernard W. Wackenhut Wacker Wealth Partners Lauren M. Wade ’05 Victoria McClintock Wade ’95 Virginia Joachim Wade ’63 Amanda K. Wager ’14 Yana Wagg ’95 Kearsley Rand Waggoner ’81 Marye Taylor Wagner ’73 Marian Roberts Wahlgren ’84 Margaret Walbridge Nan Sirna Waldstein ’51 Carolyn Peyton Walker ’64 Elissa C. Walker ’75 Julia Snodgrass Walker ’83 Laura Campbell Walker ’68 S. AtLee Walker ’69 Wendy Webb Walker ’99 Carrie M. Walkiewicz Marie Bandy Wall ’96 Edith Brainerd Walter ’42 Susanne Walters ’84 Lisa Moore Walton ’04 Lura Coleman Wampler ’60 Jessica Bemis Ward ’63 Phyllis Blythin Ward ’70 Winifred Ward ’60 Christine Devol Wardlow ’63 Pamela Compton Ware ’55 Patricia Coxe Ware ’59 Jane Oxner Waring ’58 Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Waring El Warner ’85 Pamela Walsh Warren ’82 Patricia Anderson Warren ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Warren, Sr. Wendy Hyland Warren ’84 Catherine R. Waterman ’11 Diana Duffy Waterman ’83 Lalita Shenoy Waterman ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Jon Waters Sarah Lawrence Watkins ’68 Suzanne Thompson Watkins ’69 Lindsay Hicks Watrous ’99

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Mr. and Mrs. George E. Watson Hallie N. Watson ’08 Nancy Cunningham Watson ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey V. Watts, Jr. Barbara Watts Elizabeth Andrews Watts ’74 Andrew D. and Elaine S. Weaver Katharine McCardell Webb ’70 Maj. Gen. William Webb, Jr. Barbara Chase Webber ’54

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Elizabeth Taylor Webster ’83 Ellen B. Webster ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Marvin W. Webster, Jr. Annegret P. Weckerle ’93 Jane Best Wehland ’57 Heather Bayfield Weidle ’94 Katie Keogh Weidner ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald F. Weigle Nancy J. Weigle ’95 Pamela Weiler ’79

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Ellen L. Weinberg ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Gary B. Weinberg Liisa-Ann Fink Weinberg ’90 Ellen R. Weintraub ’71 Meredith Leslie Welch ’65 Marguerite Geer Wellborn ’56 Elizabeth Melvin Wells ’99 Anne Harrell Welsh ’55 Edith Duncan Wessel ’72* Lynn V. Westine ’79 Robin Platt Wetherbee ’82 Nan Tull Wezniak Alice Anderson Wharton ’75 Elizabeth Kemper Wharton ’58 Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeremy T. Whatmough Courtney Huffman Whetstone ’95 Susan Whetstone Emily Whaley Whipple ’61 Caroline W. White ’79 Elizabeth McLemore White ’70 Ms. Jesse A. White ’86 Kimberly Diane Shaheen White ’96 Dr. and Mrs. Stephen W. White Joan McCarthy Whiteman ’49 Linda Learnard Whitfield ’56 Catherine Cranston Whitham ’75 Frances Ruth Fowler Whitlow ’82 Mary and Lyndon Whitmore Mr. and Mrs. F. Mark Whittaker Susan Curran Whitus ’79 Jane Merriam Wickens ’69 Karen Williams-Wickre ’84 The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation Margaret Richards Wiederseim ’78 Alysha Wiegand ’09 Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Neil Wigder The Wilbur S. Smith and Sally J. Smith Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Wilcoxson Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Wiley Emily C. Wiley ’07 Mr. and Mrs. Marvin E. Wilke Mr. Vance Wilkins William and Sherrie McLeRoy Family Charitable Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation Charlotte Moore Williams ’67 Dianne Hunt Williams ’68 Eleanor Keen Williams ’68 Elizabeth M. Williams ’78 Elizabeth Plunkett Williams ’48 Lacy Williams ’73

Louise Spilman Williams ’78 Margaret B. Williams ’97 Carol C. Williamson Mary Ann Hicklin Willingham ’56 Faye Rathgeber Willis ’57 Regina Mancusi Wills ’71 Ann L. Wilson ’54 Courtenay Sands Wilson ’66 Gail Hayman Wilson ’60 Hildee Williams Wilson ’89 Janet H. Wilson Madeline Wilson Wilson ’12 Jane Stephenson Wilson ’67 Nancy Ray Wiltshire ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Wimmers Haden Ridley Winborne ’69 Christine Jones Winder ’86 Camille Mitchell Wingate ’84 Gail Zarwell Winkler ’76 Patricia Layne Winks ’52 Winks Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Mary Gordon Winn ’66 Lisa Fowler Winslow ’73 Winton Farm Bet Bashinsky Wise ’75 Jennifer Solveig Wistrand Patricia Witcher Jordan ’89 Melissa Gentry Witherow ’80 Karin Wittenborg Marcia G. Wittenbrook ’72 Sallie Witting Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Wittle Georgianna Conger Wolcott ’87 Betsy M. Wolfe ’68 Molly Poole Wolfe ’65 Johanna Yaple Wolski ’70 Patsy Perkins Wolverton ’62 Edith Norman Wombwell ’53 Swee-Lan Wong ’80 Anthony C. Wood Joan Wright Wood ’83 Keitt Matheson Wood ’63 Nancy Trask Wood ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Wood III (Mina Walker Wood ’62) Elizabeth Clegg Woodard ’72 Helen Cantey Woodbridge ’44 Madison Woodward and Thomas Woodward Anne Little Woolley ’83 Nancy Finley Worcester ’85 Rosalie Barringer Wornham ’51

The Worrell Foundation Barbara Burns Wray ’81 Kathleen Harris Wray ’63 Mary Denny Scott Wray ’61 Joan Broman Wright ’56 Marty B. Wright Mary Aiken Wright ’76 Mtesa Cottemond Wright ’94 Merrilee Davies Wroten ’93 Barbara L. Wuehrmann ’71 Joan Collins Wyatt ’85 Alexandra Bernard Wyllie ’86 Jaquelin Nicholson Wysong ’64 Cheri Burritt Yates ’84 Suzanne Yates ’70 Susan Wooldridge Yeatts ’95 Laura J. Yim ’98 Ariel Alyannah Yoder ’12 Anne Dunlap Youmans ’62* Anne Kendig Young ’63 Jacqueline Lowe Young ’53 Jennifer E. Young ’11 Lauren Place Young ’78 Julia Bush Youngman ’66 Deshee Ann D. Young-Mitchell ’22 Avis Brown Yount ’69 Kathryn Hagist Yunk ’91 Letha Dameron Zackowski ’81 Catherine C. Zahrn ’98 Shannon Bazar Zahrn ’99 Mr. and Mrs. David Zak Amanda Ottaway Zambetti ’89 Janis Thomas Zeanah ’52 Katherine Schupp Zeringue ’94 Christy Holterman Ziegler ’01 Eileen MacMurtrie Zuckerman ’96 Ms. Sharon Holt and Mr. Michael Zuckerman

YOUNG ALUMNAE BELL TOWER SOCIETY

New to 2018-2019, The Bell Tower Society recognizes the importance of the bell tower in life at Sweet Briar College. This new society recognizes leadership giving by our youngest donors as it fits in their stage in life, whether gifts are made through monthly installments or as one-time gifts. The F Bell recognizes annual gifts of $250 - $649 from alumnae within 3 years since graduation. The C Bell recognizes annual gifts of $750 - $999 from alumnae within 4-6 years since graduation. The G Bell recognizes annual gifts of $1,000 - $1,999 from alumnae within 7-9 years since graduation. The

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A Bell recognizes annual gifts of $2,000 - $2,499 from alumnae within 10-12 years since graduation.

And finally, the D Bell recognizes annual gifts of $2,500+ from alumnae within 13-15 years since graduation.

F Bell (Classes of 2016 – 2019) Ashton E. Reid ’17 Miranda A. Tyler ’16 C Bell (Classes 2013-2015) G Bell (Classes 2010-2012) Martha Schley Kemp Smith ’12 Stacy Ludington ’12 A Bell (Classes 2007-2009) Caroline Camp Harrison ’07 D Bell (Classes 2004-2006) Hannah J. Silva ’05 Brooke Allison Linville ’04 Virginia Wood Susi ’04

INDIANA FLETCHER WILLIAMS ASSOCIATES

The Indiana Fletcher Williams Associates recognizes and honors Sweet Briar College’s faithful donors who follow in the philanthropic footsteps of our founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams, by providing for the College in their estate plans. If you are not listed below but have included SBC in your estate plans, please notify Claire Griffith at cgriffith@sbc.edu.

Mary Oakey Aiken ’71 Deborah Butteri Akers ’77 Sheila K. Alexander and Robert R. Alexander Jean Meyer Aloe ’63 Martha Garrison Anness ’48 Anonymous (19) Anonymous ’07 Carolyn Scott Arnold ’57 Sarah G. Babcock ’83 Anne Goebel Bain ’82 Mary Fran Brown Ballard ’49 Kathleen Peeples Ballou ’55 Nella Gray Barkley ’55 Chantel N. Bartlett ’98 Melissa Halstead Baugher ’86 Rachel Reynolds Baxtresser ’07 Myth Monnich Bayoud ’80

Kathryn Beard ’55 Robin E. Behm ’79 Katharine Hart Belew ’49* Polly Benson-Brown ’58 Beryl Bergquist ’71 Kristin Farris Bergquist ’03 Mary Morris Gamble Booth ’50 Barbara Sampson Borsch ’59 Kay Diane Moore Bowles ’57 Elizabeth Rodgers Boyd ’84 Mrs. Caroline Casey Brandt ’49 Dr. and Mrs. Owen W. Brodie Alice Cary Farmer Brown ’59 Antoinette Christian Brown ’78 Laura Lee Brown ’63 Mary Jo Biscardi Brown ’86 Nancy Dixon Brown ’63 Rosamond Sample Brown ’64 Catherine Cage Bruns ’55* Sarah Betz Bucciero ’97 Sarah M. Bumbaugh ’54 Ethel Ogden Burwell ’58 Evelyn Day Butler ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Calandra Mary Cooke Carle ’59 Eugenie Carr ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Joe Carroll Elizabeth Frenzel Casalini ’82 Elizabeth Stanly Cates ’63 Bettye Thomas Chambers ’62 Lynn Mather Charette ’86 Kirkland Tucker Clarkson ’53 Sarah P. Clement ’75 Lucy Darby Meston ’78 Richard C. Colton, Jr. Barbara Tragakis Conner ’85 Hilary Cooper Cook ’05 Kim Patmore Cool ’62 Barbara Bush Cooper ’81 Carol Tanner Cover ’43 Janet G. Crandall Susan Bronson Croft ’64 Faith Croker ’54 Paul D. Cronin Lynne Smith Crow ’64* Nannette McBurney Crowdus ’57 Susan Andrews Cruess ’79 Molly M. Currens ’89 Jaquelin and Ralph Cusick ’57 Diane Dalton ’67 Jane McKenzie Davis ’03

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Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel Elise Wachenfeld dePapp ’55 Lynne Gardner Detmer ’68 Linda C. DeVogt ’86 Ariana K. Wolynec-Werner ’01 Alice Elizabeth Dixon ’82 Marian Dolan ’76 Julie G. Dorsett ’87 Wilma Dotson Margaret McClellan Driscoll ’92 Frances Early ’62 Lynne Manov Echols ’71 Michela A. English ’71 Eleanor Crosby Erdman ’60 Maria Ward Estefania ’69 Kimberley McGraw Euston ’92 Carolyn Cannady Evans ’49 Caroline Miller Ewing ’53* Kimberly Harden Fella ’00 Katherine Guerrant Fields ’53 Mary-Fleming Willis Thompson ’66 Libby Glenn Fisher ’83 Linda A. Fite ’67 Elizabeth Harvey FitzGerald ’68 Cathy Patton Foose ’78 Carol McMurtry Fowler ’57 Mary Carter Frackelton ’72 Dorothea M. Fuller ’53 Natalie and Geoffrey Funk (Natalie Roberts Funk ’66) Mrs. Judith F. Gager* and Mr. Forrest L. Gager, Jr. Lynn Crosby Gammill ’58 Janice K. Garfield ’73 Ann Gateley ’70 Reed Johns Gay ’53 Maj. Gen. L. H. Ginn III H’55 (Kathleen Button Ginn ’55*) Jane Piper Gleason ’74 Laura Hand Glover ’86 Jane H. Goodridge ’63 Jane E. Gott ’70 Clara Barton Green ’89 Julia Charlotte Green ’13 Virginia Chamblin Greene ’55 Lorraine Haire ’91 Lura Litton Griffin ’78 Claire Dennison Griffith ’80 Margaret Van Peenen Grimes ’54 Roshani M. Gunewardene ’85 Jon Halberstadt Barbara M. Hale ’60

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Frances Griffith Laserson ’70 Elizabeth Blackwell Laundon ’69 Ann Colston Leonard ’47 Jane Perry Liles ’53 Karin I. Lindgren ’75 Lucia Woods Lindley ’59 Elizabeth R. Lindsey ’86 Sarah R. Lindsey ’04 Linda Lipscomb ’73 Stacey Sickels Locke ’88 Cheri (Harris) Lofland ’79 Steven J. London (Lillian Dugger London ’73*) Randi Miles Long ’66 Elizabeth Wray Longino ’78 Valerie Stoddard Loring ’59 Virginia Timmons Ludwick ’53 Marion MacRae ’67 Blanchette Chappell Maier ’73 Harriet Wall Martin ’65 Cornelia Long Matson ’58 Emily Dick McAlister ’78 Mary Lee McGinnis McClain ’54 Margaret Graves McClung ’53 Margaret Katterjohn McCollom ’40 Dr. Rebecca McCord, Professor of Music Emerita K. Holly McGlothlin ’78 Cynthia A. McKay ’78 Mrs. Peyton F. McLamb Dorothy Woods McLeod ’58 Rebecca Towill McNair ’60 Karen Medford ’72 Heidi Menzel Karen Gill Meyer ’63 Margot Saur Meyer ’60 Norma Patteson Mills ’60 Mary Street Montague ’51

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Denise L. Montgomery ’75 Catherine Taylor Moore ’78 Louise P. Moore ’50 Makanah Dunham Morriss ’66 Vaughan Inge Morrissette ’54 Frances Kirven Morse ’68 Joy Reynolds Mouledoux ’84 Frank F. Mountcastle, Jr. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, President Emerita Helen Turner Murphy ’56 June Jacqueline Speight Myers ’87 Kathleen B. Nager ’53 Tennessee Nielsen ’76 Denise Wisell O’Connor ’71 C. Gail Robins O’Quin ’67 Mary A. Osborn ’73 Cynthia Wilson Ottaway ’57 Anna Chao Pai ’57 Jo Ellen Johnson Parker H’10 and Richard G. Manasa Mary Hamilton Parsons ’78 William M. Passano, Jr. H’55 (Helen Addington Passano ’55*) Joanne Holbrook Patton ’52 Kathleen Garcia Pegues ’71 Ivana Pelnar-Zaiko H’06 Jacqueline C. Penny ’71 Elaine Newton Peters ’57 Susan and Lee* Piepho Jeannette N. Pillsbury ’72 Susan Dern Plank ’73 Andria Calhoun Plonka ’67 Sally Gammon Plummer ’54 Catherine Tift Porter ’44 Averala Paxton Poucher ’57 Anne Litle Poulet ’64 fall 2019

Mary Elizabeth Hannah ’62 Sandra Elder Harper ’58 Adele Vogel Harrell ’62 Elizabeth Trueheart Harris ’49 Jeanne Harris ’40 Virginia Robinson Harris ’59 Vesta Murray Haselden ’38* Katherine A. Hearn ’85 Katherine Powell Heller ’78 Mayde Ludington Henningsen ’48 Dorothy Compton Marks Herbruck ’51* Anne Day Herrmann ’64 Preston Hodges Hill ’49 Betty-Potter Kinne Hillyer ’43 Esther Jett Holland ’43* Martha C. Holland ’72 Anne Gatling Honey ’60 Kathleen M. Horan ’71 Ann Pegram Howington ’59 Leverett Hubbard, Jr. Cissy Humphrey ’76 Mary Pope Maybank Hutson ’83 Mary Bailey Izard ’52 Carol Dickson Jahnke ’86 Nancy Jenkins ’72 Grace Butler Johnson ’66 Gwen Speel Kaplan ’60 Kathleen A. Kavanagh ’74 Jane Johnson Kent ’48 Rebecca Faxon Knowles ’55 Brooke Patterson Koehler ’65 Jane Shipman Kuntz ’58 Ashley Rogers LaGanga ’05 Aileen H. Laing ’57 Amy Campbell Lamphere ’80 Helen Murchison Lane ’46

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Judith B. Powell ’69 Patricia P. Pusey ’60 Elizabeth Kernan Quigley ’48 Bettie Katherine Arnold Reed ’64 Catherine Cox Reynolds ’49 Nancie Howe Entenmann Roberts ’56 Lynn Kahler Rogerson ’76 Mary Ann Mellen Root ’53 Graham Maxwell Russell ’79 Margaret Christian Ryan ’74 Acacia Marie Salazar ’15 Betty Rau Santandrea ’70 Judith Welton Sargent ’59 Noma Greene Satterfield ’46* Ellen Harrison Saunders ’75 Susan P. Scanlan ’69 Linda Mae Visocan Gabriel ’87 Christina Bacchiani Schieffelin ’68 E. Elaine Schuster ’58 Harriet Houston Shaffer ’64 Scott C. Shank Mary Alexander Sherwood ’53 Dorothy Wyatt Shields ’58 Polly Sloan Shoemaker ’53 Jane Reeb Short ’74 Susanna Judd Silcox ’52 Allison Stemmons Simon ’63 Anne Sinsheimer ’51 Jane Collins Sjoberg ’53 Dawn W. Slekis ’08 Wylie Jameson Small ’83 Anne Haw Spencer ’89 Jeannine Corbett Squires ’66 and Jay Squires, MD DJ Stanhope, Class of ’81 Janice Renne Steffen ’74 Melanie Bowen Steglich ’78 Jean Blanton Stein ’44 Anne Stelle ’78 Renee Sterling ’73 Judith Bensen Stigle ’67 Anne Allen Symonds ’62 Paulett Long Taggart ’44 Katherine Upchurch Takvorian ’72 Margaret Cromwell Taliaferro ’49 Sandra A. Taylor ’74 Mildred Newman Thayer ’61 Catherine L. Thomas ’98 Douglas Dockery Thomas ’62 Jane (Kitchie) Roseberry Tolleson ’52 Teresa Pike Tomlinson ’87 Virginia Hudson Toone ’53 Newell Bryan Tozzer ’55 Jane Fitzgerald Treherne-Thomas ’57

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Linda R. Uihlein ’77 Norma Bulls Valentine ’93 Sally Schall Van Allen ’42 Lucy Dennington Van Zandt ’73 Sarah Underhill Viault ’60 Jane Tatman Walker ’60 Marion F. Walker ’72 Wendy Igleheart Walker ’78 Dawne Cotton Ward ’81 Jessica Bemis Ward ’63 Betty Byrne Gill Ware ’55 Barbara K. Warner ’46 El Warner ’85 Joan Davis Warren ’51 Mrs. Janet A. Warrick Charlotte Heuer Watts ’57 Langhorne Tuller Webster ’58 Ann K. Weigand Wendy C. Weiler ’71 Gwendolyn Weiner ’62 Anne Lyn Harrell Welsh ’55 Elizabeth Smith White ’59 Kenneth S. White Catherine Cranston Whitham ’75 Elizabeth Colwill Wiegers ’59 Patricia Wilder ’63 Emory Gill Williams ’40 Sallie Yon Williams ’63 Susan Whitten Williams ’78 Florence Barclay Winston ’57 Helen Pender Withers ’48 Diane Duffield Wood ’57 Keitt Matheson Wood ’63 Susan Snodgrass Wynne ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Yeager (Kathryn Prothro Yeager ’61) Susan Wooldridge Yeatts ’95 Jacqueline Lowe Young ’53

FIRST TIME DONORS

In special recognition of those who joined the Sweet Briar Donor Community in the 2018-2019 fiscal year ( July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019), Thank you!

Richard Arnheim Jade N. Ashley ’20 Ms. Patty Barbu Anne A. Barrett Karen Alex Bender ’79 Linda H. Berenberg Mr. Franklin T. Birdsall, Jr. Mrs. Daniel L. Boardman Lise Anne Boutiette and James D. Jones

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Ms. Derby D. Brackett Rod and Janet Brickey Evelyn B. Caldwell Jodi and Gary Canfield Jean F. C. Carter Mr. Paul Chaconas Kenneth Chappelle Elizabeth Hodges Clarke Christopher Colburn Meredith Cope-Levy Scheline H. Crutchfield Caroline T. Czarra ’22 Daks Nongkran Shannon L. Dalton Stephen Neal Dennis Hannah G. Denson ’22 Yennifer Dineen Donna M. Duff Anne R. Duguid ’60 Mildred A. Edwards ’20 Nancy Erickson Elizabeth Fisch Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Charles Florio Stacey Foraker Margaret White Forsberg ’90 Ms. Ann Edwards Fragale Ms. Sandy Fraley Ms. Monica G. Freeman ’73 Nancy R. and Stephen P. Friot Rex Fritzler Mr. and Mrs. Lanny Gantz Heather Ayers Garnett M. Lee Garrison Barbara Gastel Edward J. Ginty Barbara Glynn Mr. and Mrs. Jack Groesch Patricia M. Hammond Richard P. Hankins, Jr. Trudy Harris Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Hatfield Jaime L. Heimbegner ’04 Hannah E. Hesser ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Hines Tricia Hudson Lori A. Husein Karen Jackson Melville Johnson Priscilla Johnson Elizabeth Ellisor Jones ’57 Lauren E. Jones ’22 Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Jones, Jr. Diane Jumet Neal Kassell

DONOR HONOR ROLL Arthur Kellerman Edward J. Kelly III Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kerschl Lynda Krause Andrew Loy Larson Naomi Lewin Jean Price Lewis Larry Lewis Rebecca Loewenthal Mary E. Long Ms. Carol Lukemeyer Jordan P. Macurak ’21 H. Owen Maddux Audrey S. Malone ’21 Jeffrey Markert Paul Mayberry Bonnie Chapman McClure ’65 Gary McCombs Ms. Renee McKenney Wendy B. Merrill Carolyn M. Mertes Frances J. Miller Paul M. Miller Jeanne Morin Courtney L. Nelson ’20 Susannah M. Nevison Joseph J. Nicholls Ms. Mary Norvell Thomson Susan Murphy O’Brien ’74 Shawn William O’Connor Magnolia F. O’Donnell ’18 Ellen O. Oppenheimer

Elizabeth Rowland Overmyer Donna G. Page Dr. Lynn Pasquerella Barbara Jo Phaup Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Stanley Phister, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Edward H. Piepmeier, Jr. Miranda Ponton Ponton-Dean ’08 Dr. and Mrs. Dudley A. Raine, Jr. Kirsten M. Reinhart ’20 Brooke Robertson Ms. Melissa Rollosson and Mr. William Murphy Nancy Rubens Emelia Weatherly Ryder ’22 Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ryder Wendy Savino Dr. Travis Shaw Joseph Simons Betty C. Skeen ’07 Mr. and Mrs. William C. Slattery Jacqueline Sloves Alene Smith Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Noel Smith Jacob Wade Smith Mrs. Gloria T. Stanford David Stanley Peter Marcus Staples Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Steenwyk Mr. and Mrs. Brad Steinle Angela Szczesny Toni E. Termotto and David J. Termotto Ms. Ashley Tessmer James Edward Thorhill

Mary Catherine Hawley Thornton ’11 Jamie L. Tokich Lacey C. Tucker ’20 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Vari Cynthia H. Volk ’83 Mr. and Mrs. George E. Watson Susan Whetstone Susan Curran Whitus ’79 Carol C. Williamson Mr. and Mrs. Eric Wimmers Karin Wittenborg Ariel Alyannah Yoder ’12 Deshee Ann D. Young-Mitchell ’22

DONORS TO JUNIOR YEAR IN FRANCE

Donors to the Junior Year in France program and scholarships for the 2018-2019 fiscal year ( July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019) Administered by Sweet Briar College since 1948, the JYF program offers an advanced and immersive learning experience in Paris for qualified students from American colleges and universities.

Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ackerman The Ackermann Foundation David P. Adams American Express Company and AXP Political Action Committee (PAC) Anonymous Julie O’Neil Arnheim ’61 Lauren Ashwell Anne A. Barrett

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Dede T. Bartlett Josephine Benedek Kendall T. Blake Mary Morris Gamble Booth ’50 Lise Anne Boutiette and James D. Jones Anthony Caprio Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Carroll Mr. and Mrs. Maculey Carter, Jr. Maria Corpora Bruce Croushore Vincent J. Doddy David Ellis Alan M. Engler Eugenia Francis Nancy R. and Stephen P. Friot Robert M. Gill Edith Dobyns Gilson Gilson Investments, Inc. Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilín Mercedes Gravatt Grandin ’72 Alice C. Grover Margaret C. Hager Kelly E. Hall ’95 Cassandra Streett Hamrick ’66 Arthur F. Humphrey III Michelle Francesca Johnson Jay Diane Jumet Kevin Paul Kiger Caroline Hamilton King ’11 Peter M. Labombarde Dorothy Senghas Lakner Martha E. McGrady Carl McMillan Helene Mewborn Kelly Schmitt Molique ’94 Juliette Monet Anne Litle Poulet ’64 Carla L. Rosenbloom and H. David Rosenbloom Cornelia Sage Russell Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Antoinette F. Seymour Marshall Metcalf Seymour ’64 Martha L. Simpson Alene Smith Charles Lee Smith III Gary Stanton Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Steele, Jr. Barbara H. Steiner Philip and Joan Stewart Angela H. Toussaint Cathy Trezza Triangle Community Foundation, Inc. Wendy C. Weiler ’71 Nan Tull Wezniak

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Mary and Lyndon Whitmore Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Neil Wigder Mr. and Mrs. Eric Wimmers Jennifer Solveig Wistrand

FRIENDS OF ART

Donors to the Friends of Art for the 2018-2019 fiscal year ( July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019) The Friends of Art maintains and collects art for Sweet Briar’s permanent teaching collection, funds financial scholarships for off-campus internships, offers prizes for student art contests, sponsors gallery events and the Living With Art initiative as well as annually publishes Visions, a magazine highlighting the arts at Sweet Briar.

Nessim A. Al-Yafi ’97 Anonymous Florence Pye Apy ’53 Mary Fran Brown Ballard ’49 Rebecca Carter Barger ’81 Anne Carr Bingham ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Windsor Bonham Elinor Plowden Boyd ’74 Laura Lee Brown ’63 Ann-Barrett Holmes Bryan ’49 Catherine Caldwell Cabaniss ’61 Evelyn B. Caldwell Claire Cannon Christopher ’58 Kristin K. Clemons ’99 Clifton Foundation, Inc. Community Foundation of Gaston County, Inc. Barbara Bush Cooper ’81 Susan M. Craig ’73 Flora Cameron Crichton ’46* Jean Lindsay de Streel ’58 Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel Anne Taylor Quarles Doolittle ’78 Mr. and Mrs. David S. Elkins Helen Scribner Euston ’65 Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Flora Cameron Foundation Carol McMurtry Fowler ’57 Mary Frank** Mr. Forrest L. Gager, Jr. Kathleen Anne Golden ’77 Allison Roberts Greene ’81 Mary Sutherland Gwinn ’65 Alison S. Hall ’97 Jessica Gindlesperger Hubbell ’96 Anna Platt Kemper ’64 Page M. Kjellstrom ’70 The Rev. and Mrs. Peter N. Knost Muriel Wikswo Lambert ’66

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status ** Gift of Art to the Sweet Briar Collection

Margaret Johnson Laney ’62 Reyhan Tansal Larimer ’62 Mary Scales Lawson ’70 Sarah E. Lewis Gail P. Lloyd ’60 Nan Dabbs Loftin ’81 Elizabeth Wray Longino ’78 Eleanora L. Marshall ’70 Peninah Meighan Martin ’58 Laura Maus McNair Currie Maxwell ’63 Anne Ford Melton ’57 Lindsay Crumpler Nolting ’42 Gail Robins O’Quin ’67 Barbara Falge Openshaw ’57 Deborah Schmidt Robinson ’89 Magdalena Salvesen ’65 Marshall Metcalf Seymour ’64 Sarah Garrison Skidmore ’56 Catherine Cassidy Smith ’81 Ellen Bryan Tozzer Smith ’87 Renee Sterling ’73 Mary Page Stewart ’78 Still Waters Fund, a donor-advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Leila Thompson Taratus ’56 Susan Enns Tully ’63 Wanda Vest Cynthia H. Volk ’83 Nan Sirna Waldstein ’51 Elizabeth Andrews Watts ’74 Pamela S. Weekes ’83 Wendy C. Weiler ’71 The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation Hildee Williams Wilson ’89 Dana Dewey Woody ’58 Mr. and Mrs. David Zak

FRIENDS OF ATHLETICS

Donors to the Friends of Athletics for the 20182019 fiscal year ( July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019) Friends of Athletics sustains and promotes the College’s commitment to sports by funding enhancements to intercollegiate athletics, including team travel, the annual Athletic Awards Banquet, uniforms, equipment not covered in the budget, and communications to build enthusiasm and increase attendance at students’ games and other community-building efforts.

Melissa Jill Ackerman ’87 Anonymous Michelle L. Badger ’06 Megan E. Behrle ’09

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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY

Donors to the Friends of the Library for the 2018-2019 fiscal year ( July 1, 2018June 30, 2019) The Friends of the Library seek to encourage an understanding of the needs of the Mary Helen Cochran Library, as well as its available services, and to attract resources through gifts or bequests including monetary donations, books, manuscripts and other appropriate material.

Nursat I. Aygen ’76 Anonymous (2)

Michelle L. Badger ’06 Karen Herschbach Bates ’59 Mrs. Caroline Casey Brandt ’49 Rhoda Allen Brooks ’70 Mary Landon Smith Brugh ’57 Louise Phinney Caldwell ’60 Rushton Haskell Callaghan ’86 Barbara Hastings Carne ’69 Kenneth Chappelle Mr. and Mrs. David R. Clayton Gloria J. Cooper Anne Peyton Cooper ’50 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Craddock Michael Crites Mrs. Charlotte Gmelin Dabney Linda Manley Darling ’85 Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel Sarah Strapp Dennison ’10 Elizabeth and Luther Dietrich Alice V. Dodd ’65 Genevieve and Tim Fadool Mary Fleming Willis Finlay ’66 Ulrike M. Fischer ’90 Mrs. Judith F. Gager* and Mr. Forrest L. Gager, Jr. Thomas W. George Marion Phyllis Girard ’69 Gail Nancy Glifort ’86 Jane Goodridge ’63 Mr. and Mrs. William Donald Green K. Ellen Hagan ’81 Alison S. Hall ’97 Lesley Bissell Hoopes ’68 Rebecca Doyle Huppert ’91 Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Joerger Vicky Toof Johnson ’54 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hall Johnstone, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Joiner Ellen Nichols Jump ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Irwin Kerley (Donna C. Kerley ’10) Bruce Watts Krucke ’54 Helen Murchison Lane ’46 Mary Pat Behnke Larsen ’66 Lynn M. Laufenberg Sarah E. Lewis The Reverend and Mrs. C. Lloyd Lipscomb (Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb ’59) Catherine A. Lumsden ’78 Anne Stupp McAlpin ’68 Marjorie Rebentisch McLemore ’70 Rebecca Towill McNair ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Olan Mills II (Norma Patteson Mills ’60) Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mittelholtz

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Laurel Roe Morris Katharine Vaughan Myers ’06 Kimberly Knox Norman ’85 Gail Robins O’Quin ’67 Ben Page Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Parker Aimee Armentrout Peacemaker ’99 Kathleen Garcia Pegues ’71 Mr. David W. Perkins Mr. and Mrs. John J. Petchul Susan Dern Plank ’73 Andria Calhoun Plonka ’67 Catherine Tift Porter ’44 Nancy Pesek Rasenberger ’51 Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Reynolds Anne H. Richards ’84 Michael D. Richards Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Emmett Ryan Judith Greer Schulz ’61 Grace E. Suttle ’60 Marcia Dutton Talley Toni E. Termotto and David J. Termotto Maria Thacker-Goethe ’02 Jane (Kitchie) Roseberry Tolleson ’52 Wanda Vest Nan Sirna Waldstein ’51 Jessica Bemis Ward ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Marvin W. Webster, Jr. Wendy C. Weiler ’71 Betty S. Weiss Helen Cantey Woodbridge ’44 Laura J. Yim ’98

FRIENDS OF RIDING

Donors to the Friends of Riding for the 20182019 fiscal year ( July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019) Friends of Riding promotes Sweet Briar’s riding program, paying special attention to the unique nature of the program. The program provides a range of opportunities, from constructive competitive experiences to recreational riding activities, while students pursue a quality liberal arts degree. Friends of Riding aims to augment the Riding Program by offering special clinics, assisting with uniform costs, maintaining the facilities, and supplementing team travel and expenses.

Claire Therese Affleck ’03 Erin A. Alberda ’01 Thomas Ammons III Sarah G. Babcock ’83 Susan Lazarus Bailey ’85 Mary Brush Bass ’62 Mona Wilson Beard ’51

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Ellie Donahue Boyd ’08 Jodi and Gary Canfield Christopher Colburn Mr. and Mrs. William B. Craddock Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel Emily Marie Dent ’12 El Mariachi Debra A. Elkins ’93 Carol McMurtry Fowler ’57 Mrs. Judith F. Gager* and Mr. Forrest L. Gager, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Gonya (Ann Martin Gonya ’85) Claire Dennison Griffith ’80 and Luther Griffith Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Hatfield Katherine A. Hearn ’85 Bonnie Kestner Sally Old Kitchin ’76 Jo Ann Soderquist Kramer ’64 Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Christopher Magner Gary McCombs Caren J. Meade ’06 Jenaveve Hoskins Miller ’93 Beth Ann Trapold Newton ’86 Anna Chao Pai ’57 Julia Paris ’99 Brenda Childress Payne ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Stanley Phister, Jr. Lee Carroll Roebuck ’87 Nan Locke Rosa ’53 Jennifer Wiley Schmidt ’06 Alexa T. Schriempf ’97 Jacqueline Sloves T & N Printing, Inc. Mildred Newman Thayer ’61 Christine Corcoran Trauth ’85 Wanda Vest Virga Ventures LLC W. M. Jordan Company, Inc. Pamela S. Weekes ’83 Wendy C. Weiler ’71 Shannon M. Wood ’87

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Linda H. Berenberg Justine E. Betzler Katrina Ann Balding Bills ’97 Saralee Cowles Boteler ’79 Elinor Plowden Boyd ’74 Barbara A. Brand ’71 Jennifer Brodlieb Cacioppo ’92 Susan Graham Campbell ’81 Elaine Horton Cavener ’65 Deidre S. Conley ’72 Jean Lindsay de Streel ’58 Christine Witcover Dean ’68 Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel Mr. and Mrs. Thomas John Dresing Annette C. Dusenbury ’97 Katherine Taylor Erickson ’80 Jane Frierson Charitable Giving Fund, a donoradvised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Still Waters Fund, a donor-advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund Elizabeth Fisch Catherine Gornto Freeman ’92 Jane Hutcherson Frierson ’74 Sarah Dabbs Fryer ’72 Chesley Phillips Gaddis ’03 Mrs. Judith F. Gager* and Mr. Forrest L. Gager, Jr. Gardeners of the Junior League of Washington DC Virginia Woodward Gast ’73 Katherine A. Hearn ’85 Beverley Crispin Heffernan ’75 Elizabeth Mason Horsley ’90 Nancy Lea Houghton ’74 Carolyn Gaisford Imbriglia ’75 Margaret Enochs Jarvis ’83 Alice Johnson Krendel ’72 Deborah H. Jones ’84 Sarah Johnston Knoblauch ’74 Shapleigh Donnelly LaPointe ’86 Keedie Grones Leonard ’76 Sarah E. Lewis Edna-Ann Osmanski Loftus ’72 Elizabeth Wray Longino ’78 Alexandra Stewart Manwarren ’94 Eleanora L. Marshall ’70 Jesse K. Martin ’02 Antonia Bredin Massie ’77 Paul Mayberry Elizabeth D. McMullen ’68 Rebecca Denise Miller ’97 Jackelinne R. Montero ’13 Makanah Dunham Morriss ’66 Mountain Laurel Foundation

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Pamela Tipton Newton ’69 Catherine Winship Nihem ’95 Mrs. Donald R. Ober Martha Bulkley O’Brien ’59 Kathleen “kp” Papadimitriou ’84 Lindsay Eneguess Paulette ’11 Parker Shultis Pearson ’90 Bonnie Blew Pierie ’67 Ellen Ober Pitera ’93 Andria Calhoun Plonka ’67 Averala Paxton Poucher ’57 Mary Lanford Price ’91 Elizabeth Hansbrough Riley ’13 Nicole Balding Roca Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Joyce M. Scott ’05 Janeen K. Sharma ’96 Jane Russo Sheehan ’52 Megan E. Shuford ’16 Sarah Anderson Stanton ’89 Prudence Gay Stuhr ’63 Mary Taylor Swing ’58 Katharine Baker Sydnor ’66 The Harbor Foundation Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Melissa Leib Veghte ’74

* Donor Deceased Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status

Marian Roberts Wahlgren ’84 Elizabeth Andrews Watts ’74 Wendy C. Weiler ’71 Wendelin A. White ’74 Alysha Wiegand ’09 Charlotte Moore Williams ’67 Gail Zarwell Winkler ’76 Dana Dewey Woody ’58 Merrilee Davies Wroten ’93

NEW BARN RESIDENTS

Sweet Briar is home to one of the country’s most renowned equestrian programs, and for decades, our program has set the standard for collegiate riding.

We offer among the finest indoor and outdoor riding facilities and a well-schooled string of horses with wins and placings in USEF-rated competitions.

During the 2018-2019 fiscal year, donors provided the Sweet Briar Riding Program with 5 new horses.

Asher Jake Phantom Wes Xavi

CLASS NOTES

Start Planning Your Legacy

In 1899, Indiana Fletcher Williams founded Sweet Briar College through a visionary planned gift.

Indiana’s vision of a college for the education of young women inspired her to establish a trust of land and other assets that became her enduring legacy. This planned gift has provided transformational education opportunities for generations of young women for more than 100 years.

Please join us as a Williams Associate to ensure that her legacy — and yours — will prosper in perpetuity.

Become a Williams Associate

Not sure how to get started?

Visit: sbc.edu/planned-giving For questions, contact: Claire Dennison Griffith ’80 434-381-6479 | cgriffith@sbc.edu

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