living with us in Kentucky. Middle son Michael is college shopping. Oldest son Tom is a college junior and will most likely get his teaching certificate. Youngest son Frank is in his junior year of high school.
1984 Auby J. Curtis aubyJ@comcast.net Tara Kilday Lindhart taralindhart@hotmail.com
1985 Deona Houff Deona.houff@gmail.com About the only thing outrunning the heat during Reunion Weekend in early June was the fun. On Friday night we gathered at Lee Hall and received a special visit from President Rick Hurley. The former ballroom is now several rooms, which only sounds like sacrilege – it and the entire campus look great.
Earle, Kim Slayton White, Lisa Taylor, Phil Schmidt, Joanne Brenton, and Denise Zawadzki Doucette – came solo. Wendy Van Balen Gatanis and reunion organizer extraordinaire Renee Allen Kuntz brought spouses. Janet Bowers Kuhl was with her husband and twin toddler boys. Jan Deese Bryant and Mary Ruth Venditti Yao’s families included teenagers and young adult children. Lewis Goldstone and Tim and Karen Altemus Duffy came with their dogs. And it was of course good to see Sigrid Skrivseth Houston and Kathleen Dwyer Miller. I’m sure I’m missing some folks who were there. Kathleen Goeller Booth brought along daughter Megan, 8, who looks just like her mom, only with red hair. Kathleen has worked for the Department of Defense for 25 years and been married to Miles for 20. They live in Ellicott City, Md., where Kathleen is a Brownie leader and helps out with the church children’s choir.
Jill Turner Winkowski is an instructional designer in the Changes abound at Mary Hampton Roads area. Jessie Jones Washington. A roomy bookstore Lease of Fairfax, Va., a semi-retired dominates the main floor of Lee. graphic designer, married “a They serve sushi in one room of fabulous man” in 2005 and is raising Seacobeck and have pizza ovens in a 4-year-old. She spent 10 years another. Combs Hall now houses with Providence Graphics, a small English, modern foreign languages, design firm in the Fairfax-Clifton and historic preservation. Hamlet area, worked with Freddie Mac House has morphed into the for several years, and then joined “Phonathon Center.” The library, Biblical Education by Extension campus center, and science hall are World mission organization. all fancy and new. And there’s a pedestrian bridge crossing Route 1, Anne Rivello Darron ’83 lives in emblazoned with Fredericksburg and makes regular the school name.
visits to Carl’s on everyone’s behalf. Most important, though, were the classmates. I can After Mary Washington, still hear Glenn Birch and David Lisa Bentley Brouelette earned Minor reviving their 1982 classic a master’s degree in history from Being a Man at a Mostly Women’s Emory University in Atlanta and a College (video on the class Facebook doctorate in history from University page) and still see Cathy “Cuff ’ of Washington in Seattle. She stayed Gibbons near tears of joy at her first out West and married Jon. Their reunion glimpse of Susan Goyette children are Adam, a junior at and Susan Jurkiewicz Nelson. And Western Washington University, I will never forget Russell “Rusty” and Claire, a senior in high school. Berry finally arriving Saturday as Last summer. Lisa wrote that she’s we were eating lunch and roasting a patrol sergeant with the Kirkland alive on Palmieri Plaza. Later, (Washington) Police Department, during a self-guided campus tour, with plans to take a three-month Rusty regaled some of us with administrative officers course at stories about what he did back in the Southern Police Institute at the the day at various campus locales. University of Louisville in Kentucky. Ask him sometime how he got out of his piano final. Marianna Rixey Scott works in Charlottesville at Cathcart Group, Many of us – Abas Adenan, builder of luxury apartments and Lauren Simmons, Julie Labat condos. Husband Mark Scott ’84 Hershey, Theron Keller, Richard
is with SunTrust Mortgage. The oldest of their three girls, Maggie, graduates from the University of Virginia this spring and is looking at grad schools. Lauren is a freshman at Christopher Newport University. Mary Katherine is a fourth grader. Sidney Griffith Keith and her husband, Mark, had an excellent excuse for missing Reunion. Their son, Ian, graduated that weekend from Florida School for the Deaf. He plans to study at St. Johns River Community College. Sidney teaches earth science and American Sign Language in Jacksonville, Fla.
Dee lives in Virginia Beach with her husband, Andy, and daughter Brenna, 13. She is president of Becker Communications marketing and public relations consulting firm. Brenie Matute and husband Maxime promote investment projects in Honduras and various countries in Africa. They also are assisting companies with reconstruction in Haiti. Brenie divides her time between Montreal and Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where her two daughters are in school. Brenie reported that the long-lost Paul Beach, wife Maggie, and three children are living outside of Chicago.
Sidney and her family had a mini 25-year reunion Jayne Feeney ’83 is at the Don with Anne Hunt Bosco Centre in Dilla, Ethiopia, Braun. Anne, husband Bob, and working through the Lay Mission son Curtis live in Program with a feeding center and Poquoson, Va., where Anne is an an informal school for children. at-home mom. That’s it for now, Deb Hass McKinney and friends. Shoot me an email with college-bound daughter Erin toured your news or to be added to my Mary Wash this past spring. The contact list for timely reminders nephews of Jane Carroll Wilson about Class Notes deadlines. and Ginny Farquharson Voyack are attending UMW. Jane, Ginny, Jackie St. Martin ’85, Ellen Henderson Briggs ’87, Gayle Schmith Kelly, Lisa A. Harvey Becca Bennett Cuddy ’85, Janice lisharvey@msn.com “JJ” Rickerich Schifsky, Margaret Russell Eastman ’84, and Liz Congratulations to Edie Dunn Proutt Connelly got together Dornburg and husband Jed who for the Annual Active Survivors recently welcomed their second Network Race in Baltimore, which daughter, Kimiko. they followed with a trip to Gayle’s Shayne Estes received a beach house for a weekend of R&R. master of divinity in May from Keep the notes coming! the Virginia Union University Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of P.S. The 25th Reunion is just Theology in Richmond. He was the around the corner! class valedictorian. Shayne works as a substance abuse counselor and entered the pastoral ministry seeking ordination as an elder in the Kim Jones Isaac United Methodist Church. He lives mwc87@infinityok.com in Richmond with his wife and son.
1986
1987
Tom Talisman, his wife, Beth, and daughters Alexa, 6, and Gaby, 13, live in Minneapolis. Tom works in business development in Bloomington, Minn., for Pearson, a publishing concern out of the United Kingdom. Don Appiarius ’88 and Dee Dee Weinstein Becker played in the second Annual Recycle Yourself Tennis Tournament in Virginia Beach, helping to raise $3,000 for the LifeNet Health Foundation in support of organ and tissue donation education. Don is a double lung transplant recipient. Dee
René Thomas-Rizzo Rene.Thomas-Rizzo@navy.mil From Kim: My husband, Ken, continues to travel around the country to radio-control flying events, and we are busy with our computer services company. Our son, Chris, graduated from high school in May and is a freshman at Oklahoma State University. In July, Chris and I went back to my hometown of Richmond, and we visited Gettysburg, Washington, D.C., and Virginia Beach. I had forgotten how bad Northern Virginia traffic is. We spent a lot
U N I V E R S I T Y O F M A R Y W A S H I N G T O N M A G A Z I N E • FA L L / W I N T E R 2 0 1 0
65