CLASS NOTES Saturday after reunion. They are working on their retirement home in Blacksburg, Virginia. Meanwhile, Lyn is working with the nongovernmental organization Liberia Reads! Bev Holt came to reunion from Raleigh, North Carolina. Her wonderful mother passed away at age 93 the week before the reunion. I was able to attend the graveside memorial in Richmond with Bev the day before reunion started. Bev and her wife, Deb, spend as much time as possible in their beach house in Wrightsville, North Carolina. Bev and I were in Willard together when I was a junior counselor. Margie Garmey ’71 and Jane Touzalin ’71 came up just before the reunion and met us at Allman’s, our old barbecue gathering place from decades ago.
The Class of 1969 raised $1.8 million – more money than any other class attending reunion last spring. Anne Witham Kilpatrick, my high school compadre, was at the reunion with suitemate Jeanine Zavrel Fearns. Anne is South Carolina committee chair for the Daughters of the American Revolution. Anne, Jeanine, Suzy Bender Winterble, and Toni Turner Bruseth have an annual reunion of their own. Anne and husband Roger celebrate their 50th anniversary this year. Marianne deBlois Zentz and Christie Wineholt were a big help in decorating our picnic tent with mementos from the ’60s. Karen Kilgore Ralston, Bonnie Page Hoopengardner, Linda Marett Disosway, and Linda Huff Alderson, close friends since college, met up at reunion. Karen is moving to Melbourne Beach, Florida, for winters and will spend summers in Breckenridge, Colorado. She has planned trips to Iceland and Africa. Bonnie checked off her seventh continent with an African safari last year and planned to raft the Colorado River with her grandkids this year. She and Roger celebrated their 50th anniversary.
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Donna Cannon Julian, Carolyn Day O’Leary, Jean Polk Hanky, and Nancy Stevenson Leeper were there. Donna traveled to Cuba with several friends this year. She also made a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Guadalupe in Mexico. A highlight of this class reunion for me, Iris Harrell, was a luncheon with six of the seven American studies majors from our class. Program director Krystyn Moon hosted Karen Jones Rogers, Liz Dudley Wilbur, Virginia Wheaton, Nancy Yeager Allard, Sharon Dobie, and me. Another highlight was playing pickleball with President Troy Paino and Kelly Paino. They are good athletes and are doing wonderful things for Mary Wash. As luck would have it, my five years as your class scribe is finished. Linda Eadie Hood will be the class agent for the next few years. Email her at linda.hood@ me.com. Keep in touch, girls. We have a common bond through our history together. And we still make a difference in this world. Long live the works, lives, and legacy of the Class of ’69!
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Anne Summervold LeDoux ledouxanne@yahoo.com
connected with her Mary Washington roommate Anne Howell. Another group of Mary Washington friends planned a visit to a B&B in Pennsylvania, including Doralece, Donna Accettullo DeNyse, Bettie Brooks Reuter, Judy Cunningham Dotson, Susan Venable Gillette, Lee Howland Hogan, Kathy Thiel, Debbie Walker Powell, and Kathi O’Neill. John and I, Anne Summervold LeDoux, recently moved to Celebrate Virginia in Fredericksburg. Believe me, moving is not for sissies or older people! We planned an October trip to Australia and New Zealand. I saw Nancy Buchanan Perry and husband Sam at a party recently. They live in the Richmond area and have two grandsons.
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Karen Laino Giannuzzi kapitankL11@yahoo.com Kathy Lewis Newbold spent 10 days in Spain recently, and she and Greg planned to cruise the Danube from Vienna to Munich. Children Cam and Kerry are doing great in their careers. Amid church and volunteer activities, Jan Hempson Floom and Marv have found time to cross the Arctic Circle, visit Alaska to discover where her grandmother lived, and travel through Europe. They’ve also been to New Zealand and Australia. Their youngest son, Chris, recently retired from the Marine Corps.
Our 50th reunion will be here before you know it, May 29 through 31, 2020! I would love to see as many of you as possible since this is a very significant time for all of us. A donation to our class gift, which will benefit the student mental health center, would be greatly Susannah Athey Warner ’71 appreciated.
retired after 35 years as a computer
Doralece Lipoli Dullaghan systems engineer for NASA. wrote that the past two years have been challenging, with the loss of her mother at age Susannah Athey Warner retired after 98 in 2017 and the loss of her husband 15 35 years as a computer systems engineer months later. Doralece was glad that she for NASA, having worked across from was able to have a celebration of life for the wind tunnel seen in Hidden Figures. him while he was living; more than 250 She was part of the space program from people shared their love and stories of an early time and specialized in launch what he had meant in their lives. In July process and embedded flight systems. 2018, Doralece ended her career, having Susannah lives in Fernandina Beach, worked for just two companies in almost Florida, and her travels have included a 50 years. cruise to Panama. Daughter Caroline is In May 2019 she traveled to Italy with an architectural historian in Greenville, a cousin and visited another cousin, a North Carolina. great trip and a break after two years Kim Warren Noe and Bob of Columbia, of being a caregiver. Doralece attended South Carolina, have been married 46 the 50th reunion of the Class of ’69 and years and have several grandchildren.
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