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Helen Taylor Salter is in Colorado and has had some good visits with Alison Haworth Regan. Alison does needlepoint on commission. Helen also stays in touch with Judy Clark Hays, whose son, William, is in dental school in Baltimore and daughter, Hannah, is in optometry school in Chicago. Helen and family are planning a visit to the D.C. area for the 150th re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg.
1977 Mary Byrd byrdland55@yahoo.com Rob Hall and I continue our lives in Saltville, Va., where Rob is chief of police. I teach yoga classes. I have enjoyed reconnecting with high school and college friends since moving back to Virginia two years ago. Rob and I went to the 25th Virginia Film Festival, held in Charlottesville last November. We were guests of former Mary Washington education professor Jacki Vawter and husband Rod, and stayed at their cabin in Crozet.
since the sultan Qaboos came into power in the 1970s. She saw much of the city of Muscat – the grand mosque, the sultan's palace, ancient forts built to stop invaders, and the old market. She haggled for frankincense and myrrh, scarves and trinkets. Emily Cole continues to work part time at her church and volunteers her gardening skills at a library in Alexandria, Va. She’s been studying tai chi, and she and husband Larry went to China last November for two weeks. Em’s nephew, Andy Cole, graduated from UMW with the Class of 2012.
Richard Arline was re-elected Nov. 6, 2012, to a three-year term on the Franklin Township School Board of Education in Somerset, N.J. Of five candidates vying to fill three seats, he received the most votes, 10,333.
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Laura Baker and husband Geoff are living in Orlando, Fla. Laura is a photographer at the Magic Kingdom and has a blast creating
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Carol Middlebrook said she Suzanne Hawkins Stephens and husband John are lives in Georgia and scheduled to take a operates her church walking trip in the Italian Pat Seyller ’77 was costumer for organ via computer Lakes region in April. on Sundays. Daughter a production of La Bohème at the Carol was also looking Linda attends Georgia forward to seeing brother Southern University, Royal Opera in Muscat, Oman. John Middlebrook ’82 placed 13th in the U.S. and his family over the Collegiate Archery holidays. John moved to magic memories for happy little Championships, and won Bali, Indonesia, with his wife and vacationers. She and Geoff enjoy USCA’s All American Award. youngest daughter and opened a the simple life in their RV and travel She hopes to gain a spot on the guesthouse in Sanur. mostly regionally. They also had a 2016 Olympic Archery Team. great time at our 35th reunion, with Daughter Emily is a high school I can also add that my sister, their rig parked at the Tennis Center. Patricia Goliash Andril ’80, is senior. Suzanne and husband Jack coach 4-H archery. part of the Northern Virginia Art Emily Alfriend Wilson, Center in Crystal City. Patty is working for Telamon Corp. on the From Texas, Beverley Condrey my dentist sister turned artist. eastern panhandle of West Virginia, Berry writes that she does is finally able to put her graduate mineral rights investigation and degrees (MSW and MBA) to work. leasing in the Permian Basin oil She manages programs that help and gas fields of West Texas. She the homeless gain temporary Suzanne R. Bevan claims that Professor Gouger housing while they learn skills to serb@cox.net didn’t give her a heads-up on become self-sufficient. Emily and the possibility of her geography husband Mark celebrated their 35th major translating into a career anniversary this past June, and son as a petroleum “landman.” She Justin and his wife welcomed their enjoys trail riding and showing Lori Foster Turley first child in February. Son Alex is her horses. Beverley also enjoys turleys@sbcglobal.net a student at Shepherd University in genealogical research and has Shepherdstown, W.Va. found that her father’s family Katie Kulp Jones hosted a minisettled in Chesterfield County, reunion in September. Katie runs Pat Seyller was in Oman for two Va., in 1751. a middle school media center in weeks last November as costumer Roanoke. She has two daughters in for La Bohème with the Castleton Debbie Daniels Sagmiller lives town and one in Richmond. Ellen Festival, a new opera company in in Maryland and reported that Stanley Booth enjoyed summer Rappahannock County, Va. The son Robert was married in South “vacation” and has resumed her job company performed at the Royal Carolina in 2011. search. Pam Clapp Hinkle works Opera in Muscat. She visited the at MBL in Woods Hole, Mass., and desert and learned about a Bedouin her duties have expanded to include lifestyle that has rapidly changed communication and development. Son Ian is 11. Katrina Ray Landis
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is CEO of BP Alternative Energy. She and Bobbie Dwyer Leon, who teaches math in Ellicott City, Md., participated in the Sea Gull Metric Century bike ride. Colleen McCahill Turley and husband David Turley live in Fredericksburg with son Nolan, 16. Patty Churchill Shippee has launched three of her four children, the oldest a Naval Academy graduate who serves on a nuclear sub. Elisa Devorshak Harvey and son Alex compete in equine events in Maryland, while son Duncan is at sea for a semester. Babette Thorpe and her husband work in Idaho on land conservation and management issues. They missed Nancy McEntyre Kenefick, still a third-grade teacher in Fairfax, Va., and Karen Snyder Boff, who works at Cobb County Transportation Department in Atlanta. I am the corrections technical director at the Navy brig in San Diego. My son is a freshman at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia; my daughter is a high school sophomore. We traveled to Italy in June and visited Italian relatives and the town where my grandfather grew up.
1982 Tara Corrigall corrigallt@gmail.com
1983 Marcia Guida James marciagj@aol.com Tom and I are empty nesters, with our youngest at Vassar. Our oldest graduated from Yale and teaches high school math in New Haven. Our middle son is a sophomore at Tufts. Tom took a job in October at AmeriHealth Mercy in Philadelphia, so we’re commuting among Louisville, Philadelphia, and Fort Lauderdale, where we have a beach condo. On a sad note, my beloved father passed away in October. Robin Maurice Wedewer says her market research business survived the recession. Her family lives in southern Maryland, gardens, farms hay, and keeps pet chickens. Husband Harry is an attorney in Washington. Son Benjamin graduated from The Citadel and planned to start Navy pilot training.