1973
Mrs. Kit Miller Whitely 2729 S. Grove St. Arlington, VA 22202-2423 kitwhitely@comcast.net
Mary Winston Blount works part-
time with her husband Tyler and son Daniel at United Country Realt y, where Tyler sells farms and timber. Mary’s son Josh (25) is preparing for the ministry; daughter Mary (21) is married and working as a pediatric nurse in Roanoke, VA; daughter Abby (16) is attending communit y college; and son Josiah (14) is attending home school. The Blounts are building a house on ninet y acres in Catawba, VA, and hoping to move this year.
1974
Mrs. Susan Lampert Smith 8811 Commodore Drive Norfolk, VA 23503-4706 Thesmithery@cox.net
Julie
Beaver reports from Alexandria, VA that she is the Director of Development at the Navy League of the United States. Alex Bell and his wife Andrea celebrated their son’s wedding on June 20, 2009, and hosted the Class of 1974’s 35th reunion this past October. Kathy Lindsay Bennett lives at the Beach with her husband and two children. Katherine enjoys biking, hiking in the park and out west in Colorado, as well as yoga, which is helping with her past athletic injuries. David Consolvo continues to grow apples and persimmons near Charlottesville, VA. Liz Day Dalrymple writes from Pinehurst, NC that she has enjoyed a quiet summer away from the routine of the winter. Her daughter Sumner just graduated from Chatham Hall and is a freshman at the Universit y of the South. Her son Jack began his sophomore year at Woodberry Forest in September 2009. Liz has enjoyed having both children in Virginia schools and looks forward to attending a WFS vs. NA game. Liz and her husband still have a men’s store,
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and Liz also works in a yarn shop and loves it! Maria Rixey Gamper reports that all three of her children are at the Universit y of Virginia. Her twin sons are in their fourth year and her daughter is in her second year. Maria enjoyed reconnecting with classmates before their big October celebration. Bob Goldner resides in Walnut Creek, CA, and enjoys living in a beautiful area close to California’s wine country. Buck Henry has an 11th grader (Bucky) and a 9th grader (Libby), at NA. He is a dermatologist in town and still likes adventurous sailing, diving, or mountaineering vacations. When not doing stuff with his kids or working, he plays tennis and sails. John Hume and his wife run Sligo Creek Tile Co. and make beautiful decorative tiles. Debbie McIntyre Hunter lives in Front Royal, VA and is the sales manager for Linden Beverage Company, her family’s business, which manufactures Alpenglow sparkling ciders. Debbie’s twent y-four year old daughter is and an aspiring actress living in New York Cit y. Philip Light and his wife Tabatha live on a 170-acre working farm in Ronceverte, WV. They have three children, ages ten, eight, and five. Philip reports that he is performing “microsurgery during the day and making hay in the afternoon.” Brad Mahanes works as a criminal investigator with the US Environmental Protection Agency. He reports that he will be moving to Jacksonville, FL, soon and will be working for the government in a different but still very challenging capacit y. Cyndi Weidler Massad is enjoying a little time off after working for thirt y years in the financial world. She’s traded the beach for the Great Wicomico River in Richmond, VA. Lydia Spindle Masterson left the classroom and joined the admissions team at Newark Academy, a coeducational college prep school with a long-standing history similar to Buck Henry ’74 and his wife Deb
Brian Strelitz ’74 and his son Ari
Norfolk Academy’s; Newark Academy is the school that both John Tucker and J.B. Massey put her in touch with when she moved to New Jersey years ago. Remember the Swedish Import who joined you senior year? Richard Mattus and his wife Annika are the happy parents of daughters Sofia and Lisa, who turn fourteen and twelve this year. They keep very busy watching their daughters play soccer, dance, and play piano. They’re still in frequent contact with their Norfolk Academy hosts, the Morgan/Hanckel families, and visited them for Easter 2009. Stationed in Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast, Richard is working for a U.S.-based company in industrial emission control. He’s the managing director of the Swedish branch, so he does have continuous contact with “the big country out west.” He was proud to receive the U.S. EPA Climate Protection Award in 2008 (for MEGTEC Systems). Susan Jaffe Miller and husband Alan enjoyed a twent y-fifth wedding anniversary cruise in June to the western Mediterranean. Susan has a nursing home/home visit practice in Bethesda, MD. Lee Moore lives in Richmond and