CLASS NOTES Mary-Louise “Red” Rosanelli Metzger ’56 traveled to Paris, Rome, and New York with her son, Father Joe Metzger. Ann Strickler Doumas and Bill cruised from Bergen, Norway, to Montreal, Canada, following the settlements of the Vikings. She wore her MWC alumni shirt one day and Valerie Deakin Gibbons ’58 came over to chat. Others on the cruise had Mary Washington connections as well. Ann Lou Rohrbach Culwell went to her 65th high school reunion and a mini reunion with her remaining cousins. She went to Branson, Missouri, and saw five great shows. She writes that her family has four new babies. Several of you including Joan Kleinknecht have sent notes, prayers, and gentle advice since I, Christine Harper Hovis, had a stroke and was in the hospital for several weeks. I had trouble remembering the stroke and some other things, but I kept my sense of humor.
1956 Ann Chilton Power anncpower1@gmail.com In December 2016 I visited several classmates at Richmond’s Westminster Canterbury retirement community. Turner Christian Richardson moved to W.C. in May. She has a daughter in Georgia, a son in Virginia Beach, and a son in Tampa. She has nine grandchildren, including 18-year-old triplets, and one great-grandchild. Connie Hook Felvey has her Kilmarnock home and an apartment at W.C. Her daughter and twin grandsons live in Charlottesville. Angela Walton Barksdale planned to move to W.C. in February 2017. She has sons in Richmond and New York and daughters in Richmond and Staunton. I also visited with Gene Pugh Chilton ’53 and her husband, my cousin Charles. Barbara Strangmann Hiscock moved to a retirement community in Cockeysville, Maryland, in 2015. Mary-Louise “Red” Rosanelli Metzger continues to split her time between New Hampshire and Richmond, and she’s traveled to Paris, Rome, and New York with 38
her son, Father Joe Metzger of Norfolk. Hermie Gross Fox enjoyed her 80th birthday in Hawaii. She took her daughter and family to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks and Mount Rushmore National Memorial. She and sister Peg cruised in the fall from Montreal to Quebec, Nova Scotia, Boston, and New York. Christmas plans were with her son’s family in Irvine, California.
1957 Joyce Bristow Wrestler joycewrestler@gmail.com Bruce Ritchie Spain and others hope for a large attendance from
Framar Girls. She said Alice Cox has been married for 60 years to the blind date she had arranged. Betty Beckham Gentry married a Marine from an arranged blind date. Sweet Jean Miller Whitfield died in 2008. Sally Boyce Sullivan and husband Travis moved to a retirement center in Dallas. Their two children and two grandchildren are nearby. They travel to Palm Springs often and cruise to Alaska. Julia Harris Porter has been involved in her church for over 30 years as a chair or co-chair of a council. Fay Purcell Parke Cantrell and family cruised to the Caribbean last May. In June, she and Alex went to Barcelona and Lisbon. Fay is a retired high school counselor and continues to assist with the school scholarship program. Joyce Butler Allen and daughter Susan traveled to London and Paris last summer for three weeks. Joyce has communicated with Alice Janklow Drucker on Facebook.
Joyce Bristow Wrestler ’57 floated 20 miles on a river raft to Talkeetna, Alaska, of Northern Exposure fame. the Class of ’57 at our upcoming reunion. My husband and I, Joyce Bristow Wrestler, took a trip to Alaska, floated 20 miles downriver on a raft to Talkeetna (of Northern Exposure fame), and saw many bald eagles. I really admire the courageous ones who are moving to smaller quarters. Ellen Hertz Hewitt was packing for such a move but planned to stay in the Richmond area, where she’s active in church and busy visiting the sick and playing bridge. It was good hearing from Joan Callahan Frankhauser, Jean Durham Busboso, and Barbara Craft Grantz, who also gave news of sister-in-law Helen Grantz Fortner. All claimed to have no exciting news, but there was talk of travel, a few personal ills, computer hacking, and other 21st-century challenges.
1958 Susannah Godlove sgodlove5465@gmail.com Mary Ruthie Ridge Griggs attended the 50th reunion of the
Peggy Kelley Reinburg is an organ recitalist, private instructor, musicologist, and pipe organ design consultant. Her most recent project was for St. Benedict Catholic Church in Chesapeake, Virginia, where she is scheduled to perform May 21. Peggy’s son, Alexander, is an architectural historian. Mary “Kay” Martin Britto has recently taken classes and attended lectures through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She volunteers as a standardized patient for nursing students. She follows a scenario and the students examine and interview her. Dorothy “Dot” Dalton Crossan and Mike love living in Virginia at Smith Mountain Lake. Their cairn terrier, Riley, is a qualified therapy dog, and they visit elementary schools to read with students. She is a tai chi instructor and loves taking classes. They have three children and six grandchildren.
Suzanne “Sue” Doran Houser and her husband have lived in Atlanta since 1982. They travel often and visit their daughter and four grandchildren. Sue has taught piano lessons in her home for 55 years and still enjoys her students. She keeps in touch with roommate Pat Lawder Rusk in St. Simons and Jean Phipard Rutherford in Norfolk. Nancy Lunsford Singer Spero and her husband of six years, Steve Spero, live in Florida, where she enjoys art lessons, pottery, gardening, cooking, and having time to read. Mary Townsend Bates traveled to Frankfort, Kentucky, for a family reunion. It included a service in a church her forefathers built. Their family history goes back to the Revolutionary War. David B. Young, husband of Joanne Bortz Young, let me know Joanne passed away on April 8, 2016. Carole Page Thomas ’67, sister of Gwendolyn Page Langwell, shared that Gwendolyn passed away in March 2016. I know we are all sorry for the loss of two classmates. I, Susannah Godlove, am still unpacking from my June 2016 move from Fort Loudoun apartments, where I had lived since 1986. I did not know how much I stored. Now is the time to go through everything and let it go.
1959 Edna Gooch Trudeau ednanewkent@verizon.net Lois “Gay” Gaylord Allen’s two granddaughters are expecting, a boy for one, and a girl for the other. Gay has volunteered with the local animal shelter for more than 10 years and has eight animals at home. Jane Tucker Broadbooks and John are glad they moved to Chatham, Illinois, to be near Jon Karl and family. Their rural setting includes villages, farms, prairie vistas, historic sites, and the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. Jon Karl and Cathy are parents of Tucker, a freshman at Truman State University; Anna, a high school sophomore; and Virginia, an eighth-grader. Jane
Peggy Kelley Reinburg ’58 is an organ recitalist, musicologist, and pipe organ design consultant.
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