CLASS NOTES expertise. Travelers included Mary Donovan ’67, Grace May ’16, Suzannah Carretto ’15, Linda Wood Cranston ’63 and husband Craig, Suzette Robertson Hodges ’76 and husband Jim, Martha Jo Dillard Walters ’65 and friend Linda Serrett, and Meganne Lemon ’11. The trip was top-notch, and one that should be repeated.
1986
Lisa A. Harvey lisharvey@msn.com Katherine Spivey works for the federal government and co-chairs the Plain Language Action and Information Network, training federal agencies and presenting at national and international conferences. She’s also continuing her historical re-enacting, as seen in last year’s Monroe Inauguration bicentennial re-enactment at Monroe Hall.
1987
Kim Jones Isaac mwc87@infinityok.com
As for me, there are big changes in my life. After 22 years of owning a computer services company, we have opened a laser engraving business called Engraved With Style. It’s been a pretty big learning curve and a really scary change, but the time had come. Thankfully, we’ve had a lot of
Don Appiarius is a vice president for student services at a college in Wyoming. He received a doctorate last year in organizational management and hopes to return to the East Coast in about five years. Kristin Wenger ’88 is education coordinator Wife Vivian is a pediatric for the Blue Ridge Poison Center and an avid neurology nurse competitor and instructor in West Coast practitioner. swing dance. Daughter Na-Lee turns 11 this year.
great support and encouragement from the community. In addition, we’ve gotten a lot of advice from Lee Boyce Moretz ’86, and we are truly grateful. In June, my Mary Wash roommate, Lisa Onucki, visited Oklahoma City, which is only an hour from my house. We got to spend a few days together and had a blast running around Lawton and Oklahoma City.
1988
Rene Thomas-Rizzo Rene.Thomas-Rizzo@navy.mil
Jay Bradshaw jaybradshaw747@aol.com
From Kim:
Beverly J. Newman bevnewmn@yahoo.com
Kevin Sautter and Linda Milton Sautter recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary. Kevin retired from the Marine Corps as a naval aviator after 27 years and is now flying international routes for Atlas Air in a Boeing 747. Linda stays busy on their horse farm in Virginia. Son Daniel, daughter April, and granddaughter Phoebe are all doing well. Toni Moore Milbourne left her job with the public library and now works at the local senior center. The job involves finance and all aspects of the center, including day-to-day interaction with some great folks. Husband Tom retired from Lowe’s this year. Their youngest daughter, Samantha, attends West Virginia University. Daughter Maggie serves in the intelligence unit of the 82nd Airborne with the Army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Children Allen and Polly are living the grown-up life. Julie Magness enjoys her career in human resources for the city of Greenbelt, Maryland. She and wife Kathy spent 2½ weeks traveling around Ireland in July. While Kathy drove, Julie’s job was to navigate and holler, “Left side of the road!”
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online and is a pastor’s wife. Her fourth grandchild was due in August.
Nee-Cee “Ringo” Baker rstarr66@msn.com From Jay: I was honored to co-chair the class reunion with Anna Wilson Hudson. More than 45 classmates attended at some point over a very busy weekend, and many brought spouses or children. You can read more about reunion online, in the unedited Class Notes. Luci DeShazo retired from the federal government in December 2016, after 29 years. She planned to get married in August and remain in Canon City, Colorado. Her daughter attends Western State Colorado University. Cathy Hill Pearson and her husband of 29 years live in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with the youngest of their four children, a high school senior. She and her 16-year-old planned a driving trip this summer from Virginia to Niagara Falls; across the United States and into Canada; down to San Diego, California; and back home. Cathy has homeschooled for 24 years – her own children and others. She also teaches Chinese children
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After Mary Washington, Christopher Simi earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He was a physicist at the Army Night Vision Lab at Fort Belvoir and a research scientist at the National GeospatialIntelligence Agency. Chris and his wife of 31 years, Sherry, have four children. Kristin Wenger received a master’s degree in teaching from the University of Virginia in 1992, then never left Charlottesville. She is education coordinator for the Blue Ridge Poison Center and an avid competitor and instructor in West Coast swing dance.
1989 Jim Czarnecki jimczarnecki@yahoo.com Jim Czarnecki has volunteered to be agent for the Class of 1989. He takes over from former class agent Leah Wilson Munnis. Lisa Barley Collins and her older child made it through the college admissions process, and her daughter planned to attend the College of William & Mary. Lisa recently celebrated 25 years with her employer. She attended an alumni event in Purcellville, Virginia, with Robin Carrier and looked forward to more events in Loudoun County.
1990
Susan Crytzer Marchant march66358@verizon.net
1991
Shannon Eadie Niemeyer sfniemeyer@comcast.net Charlie Gullo and family are still living in Vietnam, and he’d love to hear from