interest, as well as bridge, reading and socializing. Jean Morris Stevenson: Don and I spend our year between Charlotte (in and out for about three months), mountains around Banner Elk (from May 15-Oct. 15) with fly fishing trips to ID, cruises in Europe or U.S. river cruises. Nov.-March, we’re at the ranch in TX. We have two sons and families in Charlotte. Our daughter and family are in San Antonio and visit regularly. We are all going to Vail to ski this Christmas. Sue Styer Cahill: Was skiing in UT with Bessie Bulkley Bradley ’61 and spent a month in Pawleys Island SC, golfing with husband Ed just before. Stopped to see son Tor and grandson Houston in Denver on the way back from skiing. Mary Anne Claiborne Johnston: I’ll become president-elect of the Rotary Club of Summit County in CO in July. Son Richard, an orthopedist in Atlanta, and family will be joining us for a ski week in early March. Daughter Kristin, a clinical psychologist in Boulder, and her husband try to keep up with their two daughters. Son Claiborne and family will move this summer to Austin TX where he begins his position as dean of the new Dell School of Medicine at the U. of TX, Austin. My husband continues to work full time as associate dean for research at the U. of CO School of Medicine. Carolyn King Ratcliffe: Our family trips have included Tanzania, Egypt, and last summer Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Our grandchildren are now ages 15 to 20 (two at UVA, one headed to Duke and two in high school). I’m still volunteering and playing tennis, and Clyde stays busy with his genealogy. Patti Powell Pusey: We’ve been trying to keep up with the Ratcliffe family travel adventures. They took their family to Tanzania with the Thompson family group, so we did also. 18 of us had the trip of a lifetime, sharing animal life, village community and Masaai School. Our 55th Reunion is on the calendar. Gale Young Walker shares memories of Patricia Russell Howard: I was lucky enough, also having drifted north and over the border into Canada, to keep up a friendship with Patricia. She became a prominent member of the English Dept. at the U. of Toronto and, in retirement, a noted watercolorist. Carolyn Gough Harding still subs occasionally for Adult English as a Second Language programs and tutors some neighbors once a week. We’re planning a family trip to Jackson Lake and Yellowstone in July. I get to the YMCA each week. Linda Sims Grady Newmark: I’m on a cruise to China, Japan and South Korea. I, along with Nina Bugg and Ann Lemmon, have enjoyed the SBC Living Room Learning course with 22 alumnae and 225 others at the Atlanta History Center. Nina is the capable treasurer and Ann heads up the hospitality committee. I’m still enjoying life on Lake Keowee in SC with frequent visits to my second home in Atlanta. Nina Wilkerson Bugg and Ann Crowell Lemmon also write of the outstanding Living Room Learning series. Ann adds: I can’t recommend this program enough. We’ve done it for 40 plus years. I’m still so thankful at age 75 that my parents provided a SBC education for me. Phyz and I love visits with children and grandchildren (VT and NC).
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Carol Barnard Ottenberg: Simon and I leave Seattle in late July, just when the sun comes out, and head for ME. This year I’m speaking in Salem, MA, at a national jigsaw puzzle meeting. We enjoyed a week in AZ in Feb. with family. It was fun to work with my neighbor Jane Headstream Yerkes on hosting an SBC tea when President Parker came to town. Nancy Corson Gibbes: I’m in Morocco having just spent two nights camping in a tent in the desert. Ginger Newman Blanchard writes: We’re moving to Amherst to the farm. We moved out of NJ at the end of Jan. If anyone is in the area, we’d love to see them. Jane Ellis Covington: We have some ideas about how to make our 55th special and we welcome thoughts from classmates. Thanks to the efforts of our 50th reunion committee, our class was over the top with 78% giving participation. It would be so great if we could match our last effort or exceed it! I just returned from skiing in CO—first a week with friends and then a week with daughter and two grandsons. Our escape is a farm about an hour west of Richmond, on the periphery of the Deep Run Hunt territory. Isabel Burch Ware: I am still enjoying life in Williamsburg and hope to have a large group returning for reunion in 2015. Mark your calendars now, please, for May 2931, 2015.
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Bette Hutchins Sharland thefroghall@verizon.net
Patti Amanda Birge Spivey hosted a reception in her Russian Hill home when President Jo Ellen Parker and VP for Development Heidi McCrory visited San Fran. More than 30 alumnae, students and parents attended. President Parker filled them in on academic developments and summer programs. Last Nov.,Winifred Storey Davis returned to SBC to hear Molly Haskell discuss her latest book, “My Brother My Sister,” discussing a transgender transformation “told with understanding and love.” In April, she and Tread planned to attend the alumnae gathering in Asheville. Mary Hunter Kennedy Daly also praises Molly’s book. Mary Hunter is recovering from a “very rough course of treatment for lung cancer.” She had “wonderful visits” from Lou Chapman Hoffman, just back from Paris, and from Molly. Sara Finnegan Lycett continues as docent at Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum. Sara serves on her church’s vestry. Alicia Laing Salisbury and John spent two Feb. weeks travelling in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. With a granddaughter at the Coll. of William & Mary, they anticipate visits to VA. From Cape Cod, Mary MacKenzie Shaw is co-chair of fundraising for the new building, which Eastham plans to build. The new library will double the size of the town’s present one. Mary has three children and five grandchildren. Last May, Mary and her daughter spent several weeks in the small town of Dyke, outside of Inverness, whence came her MacKenzie ancestors. Margaret Gwathmey spends two threemonth intervals each year at her apt. on Telegraph Hill in San Fran.
Mary Danny Scott Wray’s Jan. Great Performance Tour down to Cartagena, Colombia was cancelled by one of those polar vortexes. Her children and five grands are all well. John and Louise Cobb Boggs spent the early part of the winter visiting friends and relatives in Ocala and Boca Raton, then at the beach at Ft. Myers where they rent a condo in Feb. On the way home, they visited their son in Atlanta, then friends in Columbia, SC. Sue Robinson Syquia in AZ is grandmother to six, ranging in age from seven to 20 all over the globe. Helen Cloie Syquia Skarne is in the Philippines, doing TV shows. “Every once in a while her mom flies over to join her.” Eldest grandson finished at Andover and now studies in Germany. Also in AZ is Laura Conway Nason, who hopes to see Hazel Ruth, son John’s first child and her first grand, who arrived last Nov. in Olympia, Washington. Susie Prichard Pace cheers for her grands in hockey, lacrosse, basketball and baseball. This year is Bob and Linda MacArthur Hollis’ 50th anniversary. Last winter they visited family and golf courses in CA and AZ. They’ll celebrate by taking all their family on an AK cruise in July, then themselves on a cruise to Antarctica during the Nov. summer. Linda’s discovered her talent for oil painting and enjoys herself at their retirement community near Asheville, NC. Julie O’Neil Arnheim gives the Coll. of Charleston the benefit of her experience in Princeton three days a week and then volunteers at the Children’s Hospital run by the U. of SC’s Med School. Daughter Boyd has twins, a girl and a boy, born in July 2012 up in Chicago, where Boyd’s in a doctoral program at the U. of IL’s Chicago campus. Son Patrick moved to Charleston and is active in theater there and in NY. Son Richard works on complicated actuarial projects in Indianapolis. Bill and Catherine Caldwell Cabaniss had dinner with Sally Mathiasen and Ted Prince in Washington and the next day attended the dedication of the Havel Place at Georgetown U. in memory of President Vaclav Havel, of the Czech Republic who died two years ago. 2013 was a year of receiving surgery at the Cleveland Clinic for a rare condition usually happening to women in their 30s and 40s. It has taken a year, but I am recovered and grateful. Mimi Lucas Fleming visited for her grandniece’s graduation, and Julie and Mimi “picked up just where we left off in 1959.” Bette Hutchins Sharland continues as secretary of the local umbrella civic group. Jean has been interested in the Etruscans, so they ventured to (E)T(r)uscany last Sept. They saw lots of their funerary urns (about all the Romans seem to’ve left), acres of vineyards, and rows of hills topped by three-armed windmills harvesting free power. Maria Garnett Hood sees Lynn Adams Clark who is “as beautiful as ever and doing well after Morton’s death.” She and Bob travel a bit and take care of their “incollege grandson, Juan Harvie.” Our leader reminds us ‘tis only two years until our next reunion and “We can make it back!”
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Parry Ellice Adam 33 Pleasant Run Rd. Flemington, NJ 08822 peaba@comcast.net
Louise Durham Purvis: “We’ve had trips to Venice and around the south of England. The next few months will be fighting against an independent Scotland.” Dulcie Heintz Germond: Moved from NY to Atlanta in 1989. Retired from corporate life in 2005. Peter Conrad (W&L ’62) and I moved to Kiawah Island, SC, in 2005. Built a Greek Revival house on Ocean Course Dr. so we can walk to Kiawah’s beaches, the Ocean Course and Kiawah Island Club. Peter and I went to his W&L reunion this year. Recently went to Beth Gottlieb O’Connor’s (’90) wedding reception at Carolina Yacht Club in Charleston with my daughter, Amanda Sloane Germond ’90 and enjoyed seeing young alumnae. Peter won Key West regatta in our Farr ’40 with my son Colby aboard. I have four children, Teddy, Amanda, Nathaniel and Colby who live in ME, NH, Atlanta and Cary, NC, with my grandchildren. Hope to see Judith Hartwell Brooks this year. Julia Shields: “I’m retiring this month after serving almost 22 years as register for our church. I spend time watching grandnieces and grandnephews perform on courts, fields and stages, walking with my dog, doing genealogical research, some writing and volunteer work.” Effie Castelli Sammis has been on the East Coast for three weeks (early 2014) between Philadelphia and ME. They celebrated their 50th anniversary. They took their children and grandchildren to a dude ranch in MT and spent three days exploring Yellowstone. Then she and Skeeter went on a cruise to the Bahamas, Caribbean, South America, Panama Canal and Costa Rica. They have three of their children and families living near them in Sun Valley. Seven of their eight grandchildren play ice hockey, ski, soccer, dance and ride. Effie saw Jane Aldrich the summer before last in MT. She brought her two horses over to the ranch where they were staying and had great ride together. Jane has a stable of three horses, two goats, two dogs and cats. She’s still living in Florence, MT. Also a couple of years ago, they had a visit with Lizzie Fleet Wallace and Gordon in Richmond, and then at their house in Figure Eight, NC.
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Allie Stemmons Simon 3701 Guadalajara Court Irving, TX 75062 asimontc@verizon.net
Jean Young Behan died on 9/23/13 after a long illness. We express our sympathy to her family. Sympathy also to Anne Carter Brothers whose husband, Dr. John Brothers, died at the end of last year and to Lee Kucewicz Parham and John who lost their younger son, Rob, to cancer in Feb. Ironically, Anne had sent a reflection on our 50th Reunion, which just missed the deadline for our last class notes: “As I pulled out of the gates of SBC I felt many of the same emotions I had felt when leaving after graduation. I imagine it was because I had anticipated this particular reunion for so long and now it was over. I