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Public Schools. She works part time at Coldwater Creek and was to join the Shenandoah University adjunct faculty, working with music education students. Daughter Elizabeth, a Bridgewater College graduate, has three part-time jobs. Carrie Bell Jacobus has two married daughters and a son who may marry next year. She has a master’s degree in chemistry, teaches high school chemistry, and was working with other teachers on an AP chemistry lab book and a college-level organic chemistry text. She choreographed the school musical and creates art in mixed-media fiber. She and her husband hike out West and spend summers at Chautauqua Institution in New York.
is a Washington, D.C., data administrator and spends lots of time in Costa Rica. Her older daughter graduated from college in May, married three weeks later, and was to teach with an AmeriCorps group. Their younger daughter, in high school, is interested in psychology. Marti Taylor Clements lives in Maryland with her husband of 30 years, Mark. Son Rob, 25, works in Baltimore; Geordy, 23, finished his first year in medical school; Tom, 21, graduated from Gettysburg College; and Alex, 19, finished his Naval Academy plebe year. Marti does high school dance choreography, teaches dance, and is active in her church and community. She keeps up with Jan Biermann and Carolyn Roberts.
Rebecca, who attends community college. Cathy works for National Forests, and she kayaks, hikes, and camps with friends. Sarah Raynor Coleman is married to Michael (“Mick”) and works for Turner Sculpture. Children Mike of Richmond, who is married, Kate O’Driscoll and Elizabeth, who’s Hilburn of Louisiana pursuing a teaching got an MFA in certificate, graduated Teresa Childers Peterson ’83 photography and moved from college. Marge Schlemm Sidman completed an Iron Man competition. with her husband to the country, where she splits the year has a studio in their between Fort Myers, 120-year-old house. Her Fla., and their Cape exhibit, Beating Hearts: Stories Sue Sendlein Luscomb Cod home. She and her husband, of Domestic Violence, includes finished a seven-year who is retired, planned to bike writing and art. Daughter Jenny commitment on the executive Tuscany in the fall to celebrate is a veterinarian in Kansas. board of the Tennessee state their 30th anniversary. Marge Cathy Colbert attended her 40th chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, worked 10 years as a physician high school reunion in Honolulu a philanthropic organization assistant in Boston and retired to and planned to visit Candy promoting women’s education, be a homemaker and equestrian, Rossell Baunsgard in Montana, and was state president last year. riding, training, and showing. where Candy’s daughter and Sue volunteers at the Memphis They have two sons, ages 25 and son-in-law own a river rafting VA hospital. Daughter Alicia is 23. One works in social media company. married and in graduate school. marketing in San Francisco. The Younger daughter Ashton is other plans to teach English in Madelin Jones Barratt, her renovating her house. Nancy South Korea after teaching a year husband of 34 years, Henry, Smith of Richmond retired at a Boston nonprofit. Marge’s and their family attended son from Henrico County Schools, freshman year roommate, William’s December 2011 where she supervised the Daphne Johnston Elliott, and marriage to Susanna Guo in program for deaf and hard-ofhusband John were heading to Shanghai. Daughter Ellen teaches hearing students. Involved in Sunnyvale, Calif., to get son Jay second grade. Anna, 17, a high conservative grassroots politics situated before beginning work school senior, attended the since 2008, she began an effort there as a software engineer. summer Governor’s German to promote voting in the 2012 Marge’s other freshman year Academy. Elizabeth, the older presidential election. Husband roommate, Sue Smith Hane, daughter of Madelin’s freshman Thom Helsel is a small business has seen more of Mary Carroll year roommate, Hannah owner and cyclist. Daughter Myers since they moved to Patterson Crew, married and Meredith, 26, a Longwood Morrisville, N.C. Sue and her returned to Hanover County, Va. University graduate, works for husband of 32 years, Tom, a fly Younger daughter Emily finished Northwestern Mutual Financial fisherman, enjoy visiting the college and was preparing for Services. Rebecca, 21, a James North Carolina mountains. the CPA exam. Hannah works Madison University senior, is a Sue, Mary, and Sharon Reel for the state, and husband Todd marketing intern. Fuhrmeister take an annual raises bees and oysters. weekend retreat. Sharon is a Marcia Richards Suelzer new grandmother to daughter Please keep the news coming! lives in the Chicago suburbs, has Krista and husband Jonathan’s It’s great to hear what’s going on worked for a legal publishing son, Everett Carl Mueller. Sharon in your lives. company since she stopped plans to sell her house and practicing law, and is pursuing a renovate the condo she bought. master’s degree in mental health counseling. Her husband enjoys Marsha Blosser Barley is Mary Byrd fishing, Civil War re-enacting, retired after teaching music byrdland55@yahoo.com and playing guitar. Their son for 34 years in Winchester
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1978 Cindy Clark cclarkct@optonline.net
1979 Barbara Goliash Emerson emers3@msn.com I love it when the alumni magazine comes out and I hear from someone I hadn’t for a while. After 32 years of federal service, Pam Staples Piasecki retired in June from a Naval Intelligence career that included trips to Bahrain and lunch at the White House. Son Kyle graduated from high school in June. Pam and her husband of 30 years, Larry, plan to sell their Vienna, Va., home and live by the water in Fort Myers, Fla. She’ll be close to Terry Souza Beck of Plantation, Fla., but will miss Laura Buchanan Bentzen. Their families took a cruise together a couple years ago, and they met with Terry before heading home. Pam spoke to Craig Howie ’81 of London, who attends the Royal Opera and was recently visited by Patrick Everett. Pam would love to hear from the underclass girls who lived in Virginia Hall her senior year.
1980 Suzanne R. Bevan serb@cox.net Lisa Nichols lived in Mali and was interviewed in April on NPR and PRI about the refugee situation there. Son IJ Diakite joined UMW’s Class of 2016. Lisa was to move back to the U.S. in August and work from Abt Associates’ home office. Vicky Wilder’s youngest daughter, Maggie, attends UMW and was in Riverside Center’s Anything Goes. Middle child Tori graduated with honors from UMW. Friends of Dance helped produce the February Sonja Haydar Scholarship fundraiser, For the Love of Dance, along with the company of Kathy Harty Gray, a dance professor during our Mary Washington years. Her dance suite, Grant Us Courage... Grant Us Peace, was inspired by her three NYC firemen brothers who were at Ground Zero.
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