Chesapeake Christian Counseling Center and has provided crisis response counseling in Kabul, Afghanistan, and for the September 2013 Navy Yard murders. He is president and CEO of the nonprofit charity Battle Buddies, training advocates to provide peer-to-peer veteran support. Al and his wife collect antique sports cars, boat on the Chesapeake, and keep up long-distance with 3-year-old grandson Nixon. After Mary Washington, Melissa Mulreany earned a DDS from the University of Maryland, treated patients for 30 years, including three years in Japan with the Air Force, and developed a consulting business, delivering continuing education services to healthcare providers. Melissa has been married 35 years and has two grown children. She’s survived inflammatory breast cancer for 10 years and credits triathlon training.
with Road Runner Sports in Northern Virginia. Their second son completed a ship’s engineer program at Seattle Maritime Academy and was to start work with Conoco Phillips in September. Their daughter lives in Madison, Wisconsin, works with high school special ed students, and planned to start a master’s program in fall. Pat and Steve spent a weekend with Jackie Sobinski and husband Leo Henderson, who live on a small farm near Richmond. They also visited Pat’s roommate, Margaret Murphey, and husband Tom Camp, who were selling their Williamsburg home and moving to White Stone at the mouth of the Rappahannock River. Pat also has seen Agnes Rollins ’77, who lives in Massanutten and was a freshman in Virginia Hall when Pat was a junior counselor there. Pat saw Debbi Sudduth and husband Brian Burgher, who live near
Meg Mullen Hughes ’74 is a social worker at a Fredericksburg dialysis center, where she has worked 30 years. Jan Hausrath, executive VP at APCO Worldwide in Washington, D.C., celebrated the first year of her blog, MrsSedd@sixty, chronicling the joys, aches, and pains of being a senior citizen and working mom of a 13-year-old. In July, daughter Jinny attended Longacre Camp in Pennsylvania, which specializes in teen leadership development. Husband David Seddelmeyer is a National Labor Relations Board supervisory attorney. A year ago, Pat Powers Gaske and husband Steve moved from Rockville, Maryland, where they’d lived 25 years and raised their children, and bought a 106-yearold house in Fredericksburg near Historic Kenmore. They love being able to walk downtown and being only 45 minutes from their house on the Rappahannock River in Tappahannock. Steve still works, commuting by train to D.C. Pat never went back to work after staying home with their three children, who visited them in July. Their older son works
Purcellville, Virginia, and April Tooke of Silver Spring, Maryland, who works for Marriott Corp. Pat exchanges Christmas cards with Mary Byrnes and thinks she still lives in the Maryland part of the D.C. suburbs. Pat and Steve run into Bill and Terrie Young Crawley ’77, who live nearby, and Anne Gray
degrees and are pursuing master’s degrees. One was in the Peace Corps. Their two girls live together in Bozeman, Montana, where the Jenkinses planned a July vacation. Their son planned to start a master’s program in engineering at the University of Alabama. Allan is in touch with running mates Steve Jones of Brisbane, Australia, Glenn Markwith ’76 of Gloucester, Virginia, Chip Schwab ’77 of Marion, Ohio, and Richie Hasty ’76 and Emmett Snead ’76 of Fredericksburg. Allan visits his hometown, Colonial Beach, Virginia. He hopes to work a few more years and commutes on a motorcycle most days. He plays guitar daily and bass in a ’60s folk tribute band. I look forward to seeing you at our 40th reunion next year. Keep the news coming!
1976 Madelin Jones Barratt madbarratt@aol.com Rennie Archibald IV married Margaret Hughes 37 years ago. Maggie worked for IBM and Rennie worked in correctional education. Son Rennie V, a computer science Ph.D., married a med school student. Daughter Ashley, a journalist, attends grad school at the London School of Economics. Rennie and Maggie left the East Coast in 1979; have lived in Washington state, California, Texas, and NYC; and retired in San Francisco. Maggie gardens, and Rennie sails, rides
Faith Geibel Williams Moore ’75 volunteers at Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina, dressing in costume and leading tours. Fuller ’73, who married biology professor Steve Fuller. Pat plans to hold a class party at her house for our 40th reunion next year. Allan Jenkins has lived near Lenoir City, Tennessee, for 35 years and is a hydrogeologist for Tetra Tech in Oak Ridge. Wife of 31 years Lezle teaches at a Knoxville high school. Their three kids earned bachelor’s
motorcycles, and runs a chapter of American Pilgrims on the Camino, facilitating Americans walking and working on Spain’s Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. Jean Patton Hippert lives near Baltimore with husband Brent. She’s senior managing director for PNC Bank’s healthcare division. Brent runs a consulting firm.
Daughter Hillary moved to D.C. last September. The Hipperts are active in the Church of the Resurrection, which they helped establish nine years ago. They flew their Beech Bonanza to Montreal last year and planned a summer trip to the Canadian Maritimes. They still scuba dive, and Jean bird-watches and gardens. Sharon Reel Fuhrmeister retired and traveled to India in February to deliver polio vaccinations for National Immunization Day, aimed at eradicating childhood disease around the world. Sharon’s younger daughter, Erica, graduated from Johns Hopkins in May and received a grant from the National Science Foundation to finish her research before pursuing a Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the University of California Berkeley. Janice Tucker Goebel of Bastrop, Texas, retired from Union Carbide and married a Texan. She volunteers at church and in her community. Sue Sendlein Luscomb’s daughter, Ashton, plans to marry Zachary Zimmerman in March. Dianne Pace Phillips is retiring after 35 years as a dental technician. Her husband works in project management and architecture at U.Va. They plan to move to their James River property in Buckingham County. Dianne’s elder son is a diesel boat mechanic at Lake of the Woods Marina near Fredericksburg. Her daughter, a Richmond interior designer, married last September. Her stepson is in his last year at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dianne plays tennis, gardens, and paints in watercolors. Helen French Thornton Branch of Peachtree City, Georgia, retired after 27 years working with challenged populations. She plans to continue doing educational programs in the correctional system, and for her church and community, and to develop a mentoring program for female ex-offenders. She also runs with her two dogs. One of Helen’s two grown grandsons was entering Queens University of Charlotte.
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