Westhampton Class Secretary Margaret Brittle Brown 4 Baldwin Road Chelmsford, MA 01824 margaretbbrown@juno.com (978) 256-3757 Charles Thornsvard, R, is a physician with the Veterans administration Pacific Islands Healthcare System in Honolulu.
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Reunion Reminder June 3–5, 2011 To register for your reunion, visit UROnline.net or send e-mail to reunion@richmond.edu or call the alumni office at (804) 289-8030 or (800) 480-4774, option 8. Nancy Saunders Kaplon lives in Marietta, Ga., where she is semiretired from Renaissance Hotel sales. She has been working part time for more than two years at aaa auto Club South. In May she went with a group to a village in the Tuscany region of Italy near Siena, where they leased a villa with lush grounds and a pool. She is part of a group that has rented houses in several parts of France, Italy, and Spain since 1997. Nancy has two wonderful daughters. One lives in South Florida, and one lives in Marietta with her husband and children, Colin, 4, and annie, 6. Nancy says despite the “numbers,” she hopes everyone is enjoying life as much as she is and feels as young as she does. Joanne Hauft Jennings retired in June after 30 years of teaching at the same elementary school in Venice, Fla. She hopes retirement will give her more time to visit her grandchildren in Colorado and Virginia. Nancy Keeter Fowler rode through campus on Mother’s Day/ graduation weekend with her son and husband, and she says the campus is beautiful. It had been a long time since she had been there, and seeing the graduates walking around with their families brought back a flood of wonderful memories. Patricia Schultz Hoy, W and G’73, taught Spanish from 1966 until 2001, was an interpreter at Chesterfield Technical Center for almost two years, and has tutored in Spanish. She and Terry Hoy, R’69, have a son, Sterling, who is an engineer with Clark Nexsen in Norfolk,
Archiving American history Steve Tilley, R’69 Three years after graduating from Richmond, Steve Tilley tackled a once-in-a-lifetime task—indexing original papers of the Continental Congress for the Bicentennial Office of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). As an archivist for the NARA in College Park, Md., Tilley has enjoyed many rare opportunities to preserve American history. He has worked with the records of the Watergate special prosecutor and the John F. Kennedy assassination. He served as head of the JFK collection and was NARA’s liaison to the JFK Assassination Records Review Board from 1994 to 1998. He also worked for the National Security Council from 1989 to 1993, processing more than 600 freedom of information requests per year. Beginning in 1977, when the Watergate records were transferred to the National Archives, the trend has been toward fuller and earlier disclosure of information concerning historic events of intense public interest. “Passage of the Ethics in Government Act really changed things for us,” he recalls. “All the records of closed independent counsel investigations came into the archives in one fell swoop.” Tilley personally supervised the transfer of the Watergate records from the special prosecutor’s office across Pennsylvania Avenue to the National Archives. “I still remember taking the remaining few items out on a hand cart, pushing it one block down and one block over,” he says. At Richmond, Tilley lived in “Barracks D” before it was razed, later serving as a resident assistant in Thomas Hall. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, Scabbard and Blade, the history honorary (Phi Alpha Theta), and the ROTC. Tilley credits history professors John Rilling and Joseph Robert for developing his passion for history, which has evolved into a rewarding career. “I couldn’t have asked for more,” he concludes. —Betty M. van Iersel
Va. They also have a daughter, Susannah, who lives near arlington, Va., and previously was an editor for Hearst Magazines in New York. Susannah is the mother of Olivia, 6, and Hayden, 3. Patricia and Terry have traveled to alaska and the southern Caribbean. Thank you to our wonderful class members who have shared news. No matter how insignificant you may think your information is, we all want to know what’s going on. Our next due date will be in early December. Keep those cards, letters, and e-mails coming. Westhampton Class Secretary Martha Daughtry Glass 108 Forest Hills Court Cary, NC 27511 mglass@nc.rr.com (919) 467-5809 Peter Emelianchik, B, is a lifetime member of the american Mensa Society. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Erana Leiken, G, is a principal and internet marketing consultant with Tiger Marketing in Phoenix. She recently led a creative writing workshop in the Tuscany region of Italy.
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Have you viewed the pictures from our 40-year reunion on the UR alumni website? Many of us have been captured in photos! If you were not able to attend the reunion, please try to come to the next one. Thank you to Donna Boone for the fine memory book she compiled. Donna is director of the Evidence Based Practices initiative in the Virginia Department of Corrections. This includes the services and treatments that research says will produce pro-social behavior and cessation of criminal behavior. This program inspires her to continue working. Ann Dowdy Anderson’s newest grandchild, Joslyn Elisabeth Bivins, had a congenital heart defect and underwent surgery. She spent over a month in a PICU unit at the University of Virginia hospital and at MCV, but she is home now and thriving. (One of the many benefits of us staying in touch is that we had all of our class praying for ann’s granddaughter, and the prayers were definitely answered.)
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