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Dear <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> alumnae and friends,<br />
I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about women’s leadership. As the president of a<br />
women’s college with a leadership core at the center of its curriculum, my reflections<br />
naturally gravitate to this theme. More specifically, I’ve been contemplating women’s<br />
leadership from a historical perspective, considering how far women have come in the<br />
last one hundred years, where we need to go, and how <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> women have been,<br />
and will continue to be, in the forefront of this advance.<br />
This fall, we’ve held a number of events to celebrate a tremendous milestone in the history<br />
of women: the one-hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.<br />
By its passage, American women won the constitutional right to vote, even though<br />
discriminatory laws and practices of voter intimidation kept many poor women and<br />
women of color from exercising this right for decades. The path toward progress is never<br />
smooth or easy, but we continue to ascend it while keeping our eyes fixed on the prize.<br />
In 1920, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s president was Emilie Watts McVea, a staunch advocate of a<br />
woman’s right to vote. President McVea was nationally known in education circles. She<br />
elevated the rigor of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s academic program and presided over the <strong>College</strong><br />
during a tumultuous period of history. During her presidency, the United States entered<br />
World War I and the <strong>College</strong>, along with the entire world, faced a deadly influenza pandemic.<br />
Thanks to President McVea’s leadership, the <strong>College</strong> and its community weathered<br />
these storms.<br />
Today, one hundred years later, the world faces the COVID-19 global pandemic.<br />
Here at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, our students, faculty and staff are responding to the challenge with<br />
creativity and ingenuity—from figuring out how to teach and learn while wearing masks<br />
and separated by plexiglass, to adapting beloved traditions, such as Step Singing and<br />
Founders’ Day. Beyond campus, many of our alumnae serve on the front lines of the<br />
fight against COVID-19. As health care professionals, policy makers, community organizers,<br />
and more, these leaders make decisions every day to safeguard their communities.<br />
As leaders, women are also increasingly making their voices heard in the efforts to<br />
protect our world against climate change and make our way of life more ethical and sustainable.<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> is increasingly recognized as an innovative and ideal place to learn<br />
about sustainability because of the ways in which our curriculum takes full advantage<br />
of our campus assets. Whether you’re in the midst of our forests and fields, our lakes<br />
and streams, our historic structures, or our vineyards, apiary, or greenhouse, you’ll have<br />
plenty of opportunities to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty learning about<br />
sustainability at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>.<br />
You can learn more about all these aspects of the <strong>College</strong> inside. And you can also read,<br />
in the 2019-<strong>2020</strong> Honor Roll of Donors, the names of everyone who contributed to<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> this past year. I am so grateful for your support. Thanks to you, in the words<br />
of President McVea, “The possibilities of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> are unlimited.”<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Meredith Woo<br />
President
<strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2020</strong>, Vol. 90, No. 2<br />
This magazine aims to present interesting and<br />
thought-provoking news about the <strong>College</strong><br />
and its alumnae. Publication of the material<br />
does not indicate endorsement of the author’s<br />
viewpoint by the <strong>College</strong>. We reserve the right<br />
to edit and revise all material that we accept<br />
for publication. If you have a story idea or<br />
content to submit for publication, contact the<br />
editor, Amy Ostroth, at aostroth@sbc.edu.<br />
<strong>Magazine</strong> Staff<br />
Amy Ostroth, Editor<br />
Clélie Steckel, Director of the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Fund<br />
SilverLining Design, Lead Design<br />
Cassie Foster Evans, Photographer<br />
Contributors: Katie Keogh ’88, Abby May,<br />
Dana Poleski ’98, Kathleen Placidi, Sybil Slate<br />
Contact Information<br />
Office of Communications<br />
P.O. Box 1052<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, VA 24595<br />
434-381-6262<br />
Office of Alumnae Relations and Development<br />
P.O. Box 1057<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, VA 24595<br />
800-381-6131<br />
Find <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Online<br />
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Parents of Alumnae<br />
If this magazine is addressed to a daughter<br />
who no longer maintains a permanent<br />
address at your home, please email us at<br />
alumnae@sbc.edu with her new address.<br />
Thank you!<br />
Note: All photos without masks or social<br />
distancing were taken prior to March <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
CONTENTS<br />
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The Future Is Green (and Pink)<br />
The <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> greenhouse is open, supplying food, facilitating<br />
community involvement and providing food security in the local area.<br />
Soon, it will begin producing revenue in addition to vegetables.<br />
Fight, Grit and Love: 100 years of field hockey at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
Field hockey has a long and distinguished history at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and this<br />
year the program celebrates 100 years of excellence.<br />
Making it Work<br />
When COVID-19 arrived in March, we couldn’t have known the impact it<br />
would have on life around the world and at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, but throughout<br />
the pandemic, our community of faculty, staff and students has shown<br />
remarkable resiliency.<br />
Emilie McVea: A zeal for service<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s second president was an impressive woman who oversaw<br />
a number of crises during her nine-year tenure. She arguably set the<br />
standard for a “<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Woman.”<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Alumnae Leading in the Fight Against<br />
COVID-19<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> alumnae are known all over the world for being leaders, but<br />
that leadership has never been more important than now, during the<br />
COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for alumnae in health care and safety.<br />
Alumnae Ensure Continuation of a Bum Chum Tradition<br />
A group of alumnae recently helped the Bum Chums continue an<br />
important tradition: their red and white scarves.<br />
Gift from Richard C. Colton, Jr., Kicks Off the Riding<br />
Program’s Second Century<br />
The second century of riding at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> is off to a great start due<br />
to the amazing generosity of Richard C. Colton, Jr., whose gift made it<br />
possible to renovate the <strong>College</strong>’s stables, which will now be named in<br />
honor of his mother, Howell Lykes Colton ’38.<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
16<br />
On the<br />
44<br />
In<br />
101<br />
Quad<br />
Memoriam<br />
40 Giving 46 Class Notes<br />
Donor<br />
Honor Roll
Agricultural Enterprise<br />
Fundraising Initiative<br />
Raised $2,100,000<br />
Left to raise $936,000<br />
If you’re interested in supporting<br />
agricultural initiatives at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>,<br />
call 434-381-6131 or visit sbc.edu/give.<br />
Bijou Barry ‘23 gathers produce in the greenhouse<br />
THE FUTURE<br />
IS GREEN<br />
(and Pink)<br />
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The rolling hills between Prothro Dining Hall and the Fitness<br />
and Athletic Center are no longer empty. Situated between<br />
the two, an embodiment of the <strong>College</strong>’s commitment<br />
to community health and academic innovation, is <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>’s new greenhouse. The 26,000-square-foot structure is<br />
where students, faculty and the community can experience<br />
food sustainability first-hand and learn the ins-and-outs of<br />
the food economy.<br />
In this first year of greenhouse operations, the <strong>College</strong> is<br />
learning what the structure is capable of and the nuances of<br />
its environment as the seasons change. The first plants went<br />
in before Memorial Day, while some construction was still<br />
in progress, with each bay steadily filling up throughout the<br />
summer. In our efforts to work with, rather than against,<br />
Virginia’s summer heat, plantings focused on more heat-tolerant<br />
plants like cucumbers, tomatoes, okra and basil. By<br />
August, as students returned to campus, the greenhouse<br />
was quickly filling up with multiple varieties of tomatoes—<br />
beefsteak, cherry, mountain merit, pink wonder, sakura and<br />
clementine—basil, cilantro, beets, cucumbers, carrots, okra,<br />
lettuce, swiss chard and squash. Through fall, winter and<br />
early spring, we will see the greenhouse’s real potential in<br />
action: extending the growing season.<br />
Lisa Powell, associate professor of environmental studies<br />
and director of the Center for Human and Environmental<br />
Sustainability, has big plans for the greenhouse. “There are<br />
four goals for the year,” she says. “One is to supply food to<br />
Prothro for campus dining; two is to facilitate student and<br />
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Lisa Powell shows off the fruits of everyone’s labor<br />
Camryn Fitts ’24 works in the greenhouse<br />
faculty involvement; three is to support food security in<br />
our community by supplying local food banks with fresh<br />
produce; and four is to begin generating revenue through<br />
produce sales, including potential initiatives like a community<br />
supported agriculture veggie box subscription or campus<br />
farm market.”<br />
Multiple academic courses will take advantage of the<br />
greenhouse for educational and experiential activities beginning<br />
this semester. Lisa’s new class, Agricultural Operations,<br />
is affectionately known as the greenhouse class. It utilizes<br />
the vast indoor growing space throughout the fall and spring<br />
semesters. Students will not only focus on how to grow vegetables<br />
and herbs but also learn how to develop marketing<br />
plans to sell the produce.<br />
“We are excited for students to be involved in all aspects of<br />
operating a greenhouse. In addition to providing them with<br />
an experiential learning opportunity, their creativity and enthusiasm<br />
will only increase what we are able to accomplish,”<br />
says Lisa.<br />
Bijou Barry ’23 is involved in many of the <strong>College</strong>’s sustainability<br />
initiatives and works closely with Lisa on various<br />
projects. “Agriculture Operations has redefined my perspective<br />
on the pedagogy of space,” says Bijou. “The ability to be<br />
in an environment with so much diversity, various climates<br />
and opportunity for growth is so endearing and exciting.<br />
The class itself, and being in the greenhouse, has shaped my<br />
understanding of a living, learning and loving environment.”<br />
In addition to being used by environmental science and<br />
sustainability classes, opportunities abound for involvement<br />
across numerous fields of study. Academic classes such as<br />
entomology, financial accounting and introductory biology<br />
will use the greenhouse for labs and projects. After all, the<br />
cross-disciplinary nature of the <strong>College</strong>’s curriculum is at<br />
the heart of the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> experience.<br />
Of course, Meriwether Godsey, the <strong>College</strong>’s dining<br />
services partner, has also been enthusiastically incorporating<br />
greenhouse produce into their menu, including every<br />
cucumber from what has come to be known as the “enchanted<br />
cucumber forest.” With such abundance, the students<br />
and campus community might never tire of fresh pesto and<br />
endless vegetables.<br />
Student Voices<br />
“I love being in the<br />
greenhouse, in general, it’s<br />
such a place of pure serenity.<br />
Plus, Professor Powell is<br />
amazing.”<br />
“I wanted to take an agriculture class and<br />
work in the greenhouse because I am<br />
really invested in sustainable systems.<br />
I want to learn more about plants and<br />
agriculture because I’m going to major in<br />
environmental science. I would also like to<br />
grow some of my own food one day.”<br />
Camryn Fitts ’24<br />
Alexi Hunt ’24<br />
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Fight, Grit and Love:<br />
100 YEARS<br />
of field hockey<br />
at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
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Constance Applebee (second from left)<br />
with the 1950 field hockey team.
The 1981 team at the American Intercollegiate Association for Women<br />
National Division III Field Hockey Championship<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> really should have been able to celebrate<br />
100 years of competitive field hockey in 2019. Alas, the<br />
first game—scheduled to take place on Dec. 6, 1919,<br />
against Westhampton <strong>College</strong> (now the University of<br />
Richmond)—had to be cancelled due to what the <strong>Briar</strong><br />
Patch called the “extreme perversity of the weather” at<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. Nearly a year later, the field hockey team<br />
took the field against Lynchburg <strong>College</strong> on Nov. 20,<br />
1920, and dominated, winning the game 10-0. Just a few<br />
days later on Nov. 22, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> was finally able to play<br />
the long-delayed game against Westhampton <strong>College</strong>,<br />
winning a thrilling match 3-2. <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> was a leader<br />
even then; those two games were the first women’s field<br />
hockey intercollegiate games to ever be played south of<br />
the Mason-Dixon Line. Field hockey had truly taken the<br />
<strong>College</strong> by storm and has continued to be played every<br />
year since then.<br />
Field hockey was likely introduced to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> by<br />
Constance Applebee, an English player and coach who<br />
traveled to women’s colleges around the U.S. to introduce<br />
the sport and give lessons. It is possible, however, that the<br />
sport might have been played before her visit. We know<br />
from our archives that <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> had plans to bring<br />
field hockey to campus almost a full decade before the<br />
first intercollegiate game was played. In 1910, the <strong>Briar</strong><br />
Patch noted: “At last, the long-looked-for hockey field is<br />
in view.” By the end of the 1912-1913 school year, the<br />
hockey field ground, given as a gift to the <strong>College</strong>, was<br />
ready for play.<br />
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Coach Crispen congratulates Tracy Stuart ’93 after a last-minute score<br />
for a win.<br />
In those early years, there was no intercollegiate competition<br />
at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, but there were a number of inter-class<br />
field hockey teams, including varsity, senior-sophomore, junior-freshman<br />
and more. The first intercollegiate games ever<br />
played by <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>—in field hockey and basketball—were<br />
scheduled in 1919. The students felt that a few competitions<br />
against outside colleges would be exciting and benefit the<br />
athletes, the sport and the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
And that it has. In 1921, representatives from the <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> team traveled to Philadelphia to watch the all-English<br />
field hockey team play. Then, just a year later, the <strong>College</strong><br />
sent some of its players there for a tournament. It was a noteworthy<br />
moment; the young <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> team was playing<br />
against experienced teams and well-respected schools like<br />
Harvard. That same year, a winter game between <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
and Bryn Mawr was likely the first contest between a northern<br />
and southern college.<br />
Throughout the next decade, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> played against<br />
teams including Hollins, William & Mary, Harrisonburg and<br />
Westhampton and the team and its players were beginning<br />
to be recognized for their excellence. In 1936, seven varsity<br />
players were invited to play for Virginia in the Southeast<br />
Tournament in Baltimore. Two of those players advanced<br />
from the Virginia team to the Southeast team.<br />
In the 1940s, Constance again visited <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. Her<br />
presence always brought a hardworking and committed attitude<br />
to the game and its athletes. Caroline Brandt ’49 played<br />
field hockey for <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and experienced Constance Applebee<br />
first-hand. “Applebee scared me to death. I played at a<br />
camp up north in Maine and met her then, and when I went<br />
to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> I thought I was going to get away from her,”<br />
says Caroline jokingly. She recalls one time when Constance<br />
saw a girl chewing gum on the field. “She asked ‘What’s in<br />
your mouth?’ and the girl replied, ‘Chewing gum.’ Constance<br />
told the girl to take the gum out, put it on her stick and<br />
follow it down the field,” says Caroline. Although Constance<br />
may have been a tough coach, it’s leadership and strength<br />
like hers that set up the sport to achieve such success over a<br />
century of play at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>.<br />
Of course, the <strong>College</strong> had another important leader and<br />
field hockey coach: Jennifer Crispen, who began her <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> career in 1977 and coached field hockey until her passing<br />
in 2008. Indeed, Coach Crispen is one of the most wellknown<br />
contributors to athletics in the <strong>College</strong>’s history. For<br />
Crispen—as almost everyone called her—field hockey was a<br />
true passion, but she also spent many years coaching lacrosse<br />
for the Vixens and you can’t talk to alumnae who played<br />
either sport (or any other!) without hearing about Crispen.<br />
Crispen knew well the importance of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s history.<br />
Tracy Stuart ’93 spent her four years at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> learning<br />
from the legendary coach and remembers Crispen showing<br />
her the 1919 team picture and reminding the team that they<br />
had a legacy to uphold. “It's important to note that <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong> attracted not just academic students, but also<br />
female athletes,” Tracy says. “Field hockey is a strong, athletic<br />
game—and it isn't an easy game to master. One-hundred<br />
consecutive years of field hockey competition at the <strong>College</strong><br />
is an important milestone. It represents 100 years of determined<br />
female athletes coming to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> with a desire<br />
and heart to compete.”<br />
For many, playing for Coach Crispen remains an important<br />
part of their <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> experience. Alice Dixon ’82, also<br />
a four-year field hockey player for Crispen, remembers an<br />
especially difficult game against Old Dominion University<br />
in 1978. “It was, and still remains, the only time our schools<br />
competed against each other in hockey,” Alice says. “ODU<br />
was a formidable team, and I suspect that they agreed to play<br />
us only because they thought it would be an easy win. Well,<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> prevailed! The final score was 2-1 with goals<br />
by True Dow ’80 and Marian Galleher ’81. This was a huge<br />
upset; the biggest of my four years as a player. They were a<br />
national powerhouse hockey dynasty. I love to say that they<br />
never played us again because they were afraid they’d lose<br />
again!” In 1981, Crispen coached the team all the way to the<br />
American Intercollegiate Association for Women National<br />
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Field Hockey Motto:<br />
Brick by Brick<br />
Coach Lott: “It was during 2015-2017<br />
that we established our motto ‘Brick by<br />
Brick.’ We knew we were building the<br />
foundation for years to come. We quickly<br />
came to realize that we first needed to dig<br />
the foundation before laying our first brick<br />
that anyone could see. Laying our first brick<br />
above ground came in 2018 with a home<br />
opener win against Lancaster Bible <strong>College</strong>.<br />
We rang those bells! And rang and rang and<br />
rang those bells! We took back what was<br />
ours, and we shared with the world the hard<br />
work we had been doing for years while<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> landed on her feet again.”<br />
Missy Ackerman ’87 takes a shot<br />
Division III Field Hockey Championship. To get there,<br />
the team had to qualify through a tough regional tournament<br />
alongside 13 other teams. “I remember that while we<br />
lost our two games, we played very well and held our own<br />
against some very strong and talented teams,” Alice recalls.<br />
Field hockey is the only sport at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> that has<br />
played continuously. “That says a lot about the program,”<br />
says Tracy. “Women wanted to play this sport during the<br />
1920s, 1940s, 1960s, 1990s and on. It drew tough individuals<br />
to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> to play this sport—individuals who<br />
weren't scared of getting hit by a hard, plastic ball flying 75<br />
miles an hour.”<br />
The attempted closure in 2015 affected <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> athletics<br />
greatly, including field hockey. When classes stated in<br />
the fall of that year, many athletes played multiple sports,<br />
personally recruiting friends and other athletes so that the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s teams could continue to play.<br />
The relentless fight of the field hockey players to continue<br />
their legacy speaks to the character of the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
woman. “One hundred years is especially sweet,” says Alice.<br />
“Following the failed attempt to close the <strong>College</strong>, our<br />
number of students fell dramatically, but President [Phillip]<br />
Stone knew how important it was for the future of athletics<br />
to retain its NCAA and ODAC memberships. This meant<br />
that it was critical to field teams without any interruption.”<br />
Current field hockey coach Hannah Lott knows how<br />
special those players are. “The players from 2015 to 2017—<br />
Rosemary Austin ’21: “When I came in as<br />
a first-year, the team consisted of first-time<br />
players, softball players and experienced<br />
field hockey players. The amount of<br />
resilience and perseverance was immense.<br />
With arms taped to sticks and legs<br />
wrapped-up tight, we would go into games<br />
and put our whole heart into playing, even<br />
when we knew that by the end there would<br />
be no goal to show all our effort. Over the<br />
last three years, that hard work has paid off.<br />
We now know the pride of keeping winning<br />
streaks against the very teams that we used<br />
to lose to. The team has built itself up brick<br />
by brick and is finally ready for the next layer<br />
of joining a league.”<br />
known for their drive to rebuild their sport—are a special<br />
kind,” she says. “They had the fight in their spirit, the grit<br />
in their gut and the love for their school that allowed them<br />
to sacrifice for <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. These were the students who<br />
fought for their <strong>College</strong>, their classmates and their teams.<br />
Students from all teams tried new sports just to give their<br />
teammates the chance to play.”<br />
Of course, this year’s team has been faced with a global<br />
pandemic, but they remain determined to succeed. In<br />
the spring, they did virtual workouts. These days, they’re<br />
training on campus, even if they don’t know what the future<br />
holds. “Right now we aren’t sure what game we are training<br />
for next,” says Coach Lott. “But we know we are training to<br />
leave our mark.”<br />
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Cannie Crysler Shafer ’78 (second from right) with her classmates at<br />
reunion in 2013. In addition to being a member of the hall of fame,<br />
Cannie was the first recipient of the Crylser Award. Named after<br />
Cannie, it is one of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s most prestigious awards. It honors an<br />
outstanding four-year varsity athlete or rider who has demonstrated<br />
continuous commitment, sportsmanship and achievement in sport.<br />
Clearly, today’s field hockey players are no less committed<br />
than those of 100 years ago. “Being on the field hockey<br />
team means that I am the example that everyone on campus<br />
looks to,” says Rosemary Austin ’21. “It also means that we<br />
are a family, and just like a family, we don't always get along.<br />
However, a family also has your back when it really matters<br />
and will teach you the skills that allow you to grow. They will<br />
hold you accountable, show concern when you're troubled<br />
and give you support when you need it most. That's why the<br />
field hockey team has been the backbone of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>'s<br />
culture for a long time now and the example that everyone<br />
looks up to.”<br />
Alexis “AJ” Jones ’21 moves down the field<br />
Like her teammate, Alexis “AJ” Jones ’21 feels the importance<br />
of her team’s history at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. “Women worked<br />
hard to constantly keep this sport going even when there<br />
were little or few players to keep the foundation alive,” she<br />
says. “I admire these women who came into the program<br />
open minded and determined to keep this sport going for<br />
future generations to come.”<br />
Coach Lott knows the determination of her players well.<br />
“When the game knocked them down, they taped themselves<br />
up and got back on the field,” she says. “With tape flying,<br />
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Thayer Field<br />
In the fall of 2009, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> dedicated Thayer Field as<br />
home to the Vixen field hockey<br />
team. The field is named for Hall<br />
of Fame member Mildred “Bee”<br />
Newman Thayer ’61 and her<br />
husband Brad, because of their<br />
generous support of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>,<br />
particularly its athletic program.<br />
Bee was a biology major and<br />
athlete and has been described as<br />
Bee Thayer at her home<br />
having a practical, forthright approach.<br />
She was class treasurer in her first and second years<br />
at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. She was also a member of the Judicial Board,<br />
the YWCA, the Athletic Association and the QVs.<br />
Bee has been a tireless volunteer for the <strong>College</strong>. She has<br />
served as a Reunion Gifts Chair for her class, national<br />
reunion giving chair and alumnae fund chair. She was the<br />
alumnae fund chair for the alumnae association and in<br />
1994, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> named her its recipient of The National<br />
Network on Women Philanthropists’ Award of Excellence.<br />
She and Brad served on the college’s Campaign Advisory<br />
Council.<br />
In 1994, Bee was named the Outstanding Alumnae Award<br />
recipient—along with her sister, Ginger. She was inducted<br />
into the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Hall of Fame in 2006. Indeed the<br />
whole family is woven into the fabric of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. A niece,<br />
Trista, graduated in 1995. Another niece, Meredith Newman<br />
‘09, is currently coach of the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> lacrosse team.<br />
Bee and Ginger’s father, J. Wilson Newman, was a member<br />
of the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Board of Directors. When presenting the<br />
Outstanding Alumnae Award, President Barbara Hill noted<br />
that the sisters were “prime examples of the caring and dedication<br />
that make <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> the very special place it is.”<br />
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sweat dripping, down numbers on the field and on the<br />
scoreboard, they said, ‘We are going to get back out there<br />
and play with all of our might! Because when I come back in<br />
20 years, I want to see the field hockey team competing and<br />
competing with pride!’”<br />
And just like Crispen did when she talked to Tracy Stuart<br />
about the <strong>College</strong>’s earliest players, Coach Lott also knows<br />
that her team stands on the shoulders of those who came<br />
before. “Since Crispen’s death, and again since 2015, we have<br />
been fighting tooth and nail to prove ourselves,” she says.<br />
Each year, the team strives to improve their record and<br />
increase the talent pool of the roster. Coach Lott imagines<br />
a future where the <strong>College</strong> hosts preseason tournaments<br />
and is a space for youth and adult hockey leagues to play. “I<br />
imagine the future of hockey at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> to be a vibrant<br />
one and that <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> becomes the hockey hub it once<br />
was. The growth of field hockey at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> will mean<br />
the growth, sustainability and increased prestige of the<br />
<strong>College</strong>.”<br />
Bring on the next century, Vixens. You’ve got this.<br />
Turf vs. Grass<br />
Obviously, the game isn’t the same as<br />
it was a 100 years ago. “It has become<br />
a fast-pass game that requires goalies<br />
to stop plays rather than just stopping<br />
goals, and there has been a big push<br />
to bring the ball off the ground,” says<br />
Rosemary. “Due to the changes that<br />
have taken place, sticks and goalie gear<br />
have become lighter to accommodate<br />
the speed of the game. It has also made<br />
grass fields a hindrance to the new<br />
playing style.”<br />
Being a student-athlete on any level is<br />
demanding and requires a strong work<br />
ethic paired with a desire to improve.<br />
Sometimes, that means making certain<br />
concessions that a typical college<br />
student may not have to make.<br />
Field Hockey Members<br />
of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s<br />
Hall of Fame<br />
2006<br />
Anna Chao Pai ’57<br />
Cannie Crysler Shafer ’78<br />
Mildred “Bee” Newman Thayer ’61<br />
Mary Jane Schroder Oliver Hubbard ’62 (coach)<br />
2007<br />
Cara Gascoigne (coach)<br />
2009<br />
Jennifer Crispen (coach)<br />
2012<br />
Sally True Dow-Datilio ’80<br />
2017<br />
Missy Ackerman ’87 (player and coach)<br />
For the field hockey team, one of<br />
those concessions is finding a turf<br />
field to play and practice on. “Their<br />
skill, cohesiveness and ability to move<br />
increases greatly when on turf,” says<br />
Coach Lott. “The team spends 50% of<br />
their time practicing away from <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> so they can practice on a surface<br />
meant for field hockey,” she continues.<br />
“These athletes are committed. Since<br />
we are not on our property, practices<br />
can start as early as 6 a.m. and end as<br />
late as 10 p.m. These times put strain<br />
on the athletes, mentally and physically,<br />
as their sleep, dining, social and study<br />
schedules are affected. All of the<br />
athletes have decided it is worth the<br />
cost in order to get time on turf.”<br />
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Pauli Born '22 (left) and<br />
Annika Kuleba '22 spend<br />
time in a residence hall room<br />
Making<br />
It Work<br />
When 2019-<strong>2020</strong> academic year began, we could not have predicted<br />
that we would face a worldwide pandemic before the spring break,<br />
but like so many other schools, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> had to make the decision<br />
to shift to distance learning in March. It was a true make-it-work<br />
moment.<br />
Students and faculty had to re-imagine the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> experience.<br />
Everyone became experts in Zoom, Google Meet and Canvas, the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
online learning platform. The Office of Admissions developed<br />
ways for prospective students to visit campus virtually. The Student<br />
Government Association held online meetings. Faculty created video<br />
lessons. Hands-on learning was done with whatever students had<br />
on hand at home. The Athletics Department offered online yoga and<br />
dance classes.<br />
And although we returned to on-campus life in August, nothing is<br />
quite the same as it was, and we must still find creative ways to keep<br />
our promise to students.<br />
Whether we’re apart or together, the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> community has<br />
brought creative ideas and a resilient spirit to bear. In fact, some of the<br />
creative ideas we’ve implemented have been so successful, they may<br />
continue even after things go back to normal—whatever that might<br />
look like.<br />
Hands-On Learning . . . From a Distance<br />
Hands-on learning is a hallmark of the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> experience. But<br />
how to you get hands-on when everyone is off campus?<br />
Bethany Brinkman did just that for her Engineering Design in the<br />
Community class, which took place during the spring 3-week session.<br />
In the class, students engineer a solution to a problem for an external<br />
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client. Normally, the clients and projects are pre-selected<br />
and students are together in a lab, but the pandemic shifted<br />
the needs of the clients. Likewise, the students—by now<br />
spread all over the country—had access to different tools<br />
than if they’d been in the classroom.<br />
Bethany asked students to identify what kind of work<br />
space they had. Did they have a garage to spread out in or<br />
did they just have their bedroom floor? Did they have access<br />
to any specialty tools or equipment or did they have just<br />
a screwdriver at home? Based on the student responses,<br />
Bethany put teams together to ensure that everyone would<br />
have access to the tools that they needed to complete their<br />
projects.<br />
“For example,” Bethany told us, “the student with a machine<br />
shop was tasked with building a console table that<br />
integrated with two dog crates, and the student with a<br />
sewing machine worked on a specialty light and sound-insulating<br />
tent for military personnel on deployment.” For<br />
the most part, students were tasked to work with what they<br />
already had, but if they needed additional supplies, Bethany<br />
placed an order through the students’ local stores and the<br />
items were either delivered directly to the students or they<br />
did curbside pickup.<br />
One project worth particular mention is the dog-walkers<br />
device. “The family of one of our then-sophomores<br />
regularly volunteers to walk dogs for the elderly in their<br />
neighborhood. With physical distancing required because<br />
of the pandemic and the extra vulnerability of the elderly<br />
dog owners, they needed some way to be able to hand off a<br />
dog’s leash/treats/notes while still being six feet apart.” For<br />
this team, the sophomore and her family were the clients,<br />
and a student in the class designed a device that ended up<br />
being essentially a grabber. “The student who worked on the<br />
project had four dogs herself, and was able to do some really<br />
exceptional product testing and data collection as she designed,<br />
tested and perfected the finished product,” Bethany<br />
told us.<br />
Although it isn’t what Bethany or her students would<br />
have wished, there were definitely some positives about the<br />
experience. “The most pleasant surprise was that students<br />
were more independent and engaged than we expected,” said<br />
Bethany.<br />
Dancing at a Distance<br />
At the beginning of last year, the Office of Student Life<br />
implemented a robust plan of extracurricular activities like<br />
cooking classes, sign language and yoga. The idea, of course,<br />
was to enhance the quality of life for students on campus<br />
and give them value-added things to do when they weren’t<br />
in class. One of the classes, Dance N Motion taught by<br />
Cortney Lewandowski ’12, was a high-energy Zumba-style<br />
class that provides a total body cardio and aerobic workout.<br />
It was really starting to take off before spring break, but<br />
then COVID hit.<br />
Despite the distance caused by the pandemic, Cortney<br />
and Samantha Bickel, the facility coordinator for the FAC,<br />
wanted to find a way to keep the class going so that students<br />
could remain engaged and active while they were home and<br />
in quarantine.<br />
They set up a Google Meet and Cortney taught the class<br />
for about four weeks. “I cleared out my living room to make<br />
space so as not to break any of my own belongings and set<br />
up my music with speakers and a laptop,” she says. “I never<br />
imagined myself having to ever teach from home. I think<br />
many students and even alumnae appreciated the opportunity<br />
to still feel the engagement of activities without being<br />
on campus.”<br />
Because the class was online, alumnae who don’t live near<br />
campus were able to participate and Cortney enjoyed being<br />
able to share her love of dance with more members of the<br />
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Lauren Jones ‘22 (left) and Hannah Denson ‘22 enjoy a<br />
Founders’ Day desert from Rookie’s mobile dessert bar<br />
Asha Stewart ‘21 takes a photo in the butterfly garden<br />
during Medford Taylor’s photography class<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> community. “I connected with many more<br />
students and alumnae who wished this was a class that<br />
happened all the time,” she observed. “It was a great feeling<br />
knowing that everyone was enjoying themselves. Staying<br />
active and healthy during times like these is important. It is<br />
a great stress reliever as well. We were able to reach people<br />
as far as Buffalo, New York, Bedford, Texas and Florida.”<br />
Finding What Comes Next<br />
Finding a job or graduate school has always been a key<br />
part of the student experience at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and supporting<br />
those searches keeps the staff in the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Career<br />
Services Center very busy. Before the pandemic, staff spent<br />
more than 1,000 hours each year meeting with students to<br />
teach them how to put together a resume, make sure their<br />
LinkedIn profiles were up to date, find and interview for<br />
jobs and negotiate a salary. The staff hosted and transported<br />
students to job and graduate school fairs, helped review<br />
personal statements and cover letters, ensured students were<br />
able to network with alumnae and much more. But is that<br />
kind of one-on-one attention possible during a pandemic<br />
and quarantine?<br />
You bet. In some cases, it’s even better.<br />
Despite the distance brought on by the pandemic, Barb<br />
Watts, the director of the career services center, was determined<br />
to offer the same level of care and personal attention<br />
as before and has brought all kinds of creative ideas to bear<br />
to ensure it. “We really knew back in March that we would<br />
lose the window of programming in spring semester, so<br />
that’s when we moved to a Career Dash model,” she told us.<br />
“Career Dash” is a spoof of DoorDash, an online food delivery<br />
service. “We were trying to meet students where they<br />
were and bring career services to their doors,” said Barb.<br />
Barb and Career Services Associate Baylee Anne Worth ’18<br />
put together a one-page list of resources to help students<br />
with everything from graduate school prep to networking<br />
with alumnae. They spent a lot of time finding free resources<br />
for students, like buzzfile.com and upkey.com. And, they’ve<br />
been doing a lot of virtual appointments and screen shares.<br />
“That’s not what we would have thought of before COVID,”<br />
says Barb, “But it turns out that it helps us serve more students<br />
in a more efficient way.” During a virtual session, Barb<br />
and Baylee can see the students’ screens and tell them exactly<br />
where to click. Automated calendaring of sessions has made<br />
it easy for students to sign up for help, and no travel time<br />
means that students can have a session right before or after<br />
class or practice, making the sessions even more efficient.<br />
One of the most creative ideas Barb and Baylee had was<br />
to make a game out of the senior year job and grad school<br />
searches. They broke the searches into small pieces so that<br />
it was easy for students “level up” when they completed one<br />
part of the search and moved on to another. In addition<br />
to that, they’ve created a course in Canvas and a Facebook<br />
page, added resources to their website, and hosted a career<br />
exploration group using the book You Majored in What?<br />
Designing your Path from <strong>College</strong> to Career by Katherine<br />
Brooks. The traditional senior survey is now online and<br />
students who complete it are still rewarded with a brightly<br />
colored <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> coffee mug.<br />
To make it easy to sign up for virtual events, QR codes are<br />
on printed posters around campus. Obviously, there have<br />
been dozens, if not hundreds, of virtual events to choose<br />
from and sometimes virtual events have some real benefits.<br />
For one thing, they can be recorded, so that even if a student<br />
can’t attend, they can review the sessions at a time more<br />
convenient for them. Likewise, full-day fairs like the Federal<br />
Career Expo, were often prohibitive for both students<br />
and agencies—after all, not everyone can take a full day or<br />
more to travel, attend and return home. This year, however,<br />
the expo was broken into multiple sections on topics like<br />
creating a federal resume, how to navigate the federal jobs<br />
website, working on Capitol Hill and beyond, and how to<br />
use a liberal arts major to get a job in the federal government.<br />
Because traveling isn’t an issue, more agencies can be<br />
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represented because representatives can just dial in from<br />
their offices. The chat feature allows more questions to get<br />
answered. And ultimately, students have access to organizations<br />
that might not have come to campus because <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> is small.<br />
One other benefit? People are more open to virtual exploratory<br />
conversations. Barb has found that there is a lot of<br />
compassion for students who are trying to find work. Alumnae<br />
are more willing than ever before to talk to students and<br />
geography is even less of a burden.<br />
“It’s really been about creating new pathways for students<br />
to learn about what we do,” says Barb. She also been relying<br />
heavily on her colleagues at other schools. “Since we went<br />
remote in March, I’ve been meeting with colleagues at The<br />
University of Lynchburg and Randolph <strong>College</strong>. The Virginia<br />
Association of <strong>College</strong>s and Employers has put together a<br />
monthly directors meeting to do idea sharing,” she says.<br />
The best piece of advice that Barb has for job seekers is<br />
to remember that the pandemic is only temporary. “Keep<br />
focused on the long-range view of what you want to do<br />
professionally and take steps in that direction,” she says.<br />
“Employers will understand if experiences don’t take place<br />
in in-person settings. There are lots of free online training<br />
opportunity that will help you gain skills that will be marketable<br />
in whatever area you go into. A liberal arts education<br />
will be more important than ever because it teaches students<br />
to be flexible.”<br />
On-Campus Health Services Return to<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
In addition to finding creative ways to teach, learn and<br />
engage our community from a distance, the current pandemic<br />
has led to one other positive change at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>:<br />
an onsite health clinic.<br />
For the last few years, it was more financially feasible for<br />
the <strong>College</strong> to build partnerships with medical services off<br />
campus, but returning to campus during a pandemic meant<br />
that health services needed to be available on campus.<br />
Within weeks of deciding that the fall <strong>2020</strong> semester<br />
would be conducted on campus, Athletics Director Jodi<br />
Canfield, who is heading up the <strong>College</strong>’s COVID-19 Task<br />
Force, and Vice President for Finance, Operations and<br />
Auxiliary Enterprises Luther Griffith had reviewed possible<br />
on-campus locations and interviewed three architectural and<br />
construction firms. Ultimately, the lower level of Memorial<br />
Chapel was selected the best location because it has plenty<br />
of space and easy access for emergency vehicles. Given the<br />
necessity to complete the $500,000 renovation quickly, the<br />
location gave the <strong>College</strong> the best chance for success. The<br />
new clinic opened on Oct. 6.<br />
Upon entering the new clinic, students are greeted by a<br />
large, open waiting area. Also near the front door: a 24/7<br />
telehealth room that students can access using their <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> ID card. In addition to three exam rooms, there is a<br />
separate entrance and additional exam room for people who<br />
may have been exposed to COVID-19. The new clinic has<br />
enough space to support the health of up to 700 students.<br />
The clinic provides health care only for students, except in<br />
the case of a need for COVID-19 testing. Any member of<br />
the campus community may be tested for COVID-19 at the<br />
health clinic. The health clinic is staffed by a nurse as part of<br />
a partnership between <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and HealthWorks, Central<br />
Virginia’s only comprehensive occupational health and<br />
workplace wellness provider. As part of Centra, the partnership<br />
with HealthWorks ensures that <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> has access<br />
to the best medical expertise available in the area.<br />
Of course, all student health needs can be met by the new<br />
center, not simply those related to COVID-19. Horizon Behavioral<br />
Health, which has been supporting student mental<br />
health at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> for several years, also operates out of<br />
the clinic. The clinic accepts student insurance for care.<br />
The Student Experience<br />
In addition to the health clinic, there have been other<br />
changes at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> because of the pandemic.<br />
One of the biggest additions is COVID captains. These<br />
student leaders have volunteered to help keep themselves<br />
and their classmates safe by checking students in and out of<br />
events and doing temperature and other symptom checks.<br />
The captains also ensure that everyone is following social<br />
distancing and facial covering guidelines. “COVID captains<br />
were a result of the many discussions between the Student<br />
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Reesa Artz ’22 and Sydney Campbell ’21 paint pumpkins during<br />
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Task Force during summer <strong>2020</strong>,” says Reesa Artz ’22, a<br />
COVID captain and president of the Campus Events Organization.<br />
“They include many student leaders on campus,<br />
including class officers, SGA cabinet and executive board<br />
members, and trained student volunteers. All COVID captains<br />
have gone through proper training to ensure students<br />
attending campus approved events are correctly and safely<br />
following appropriate COVID-19 guidelines set forth by<br />
the Student Events Committee.”<br />
Sydney Campbell ’21, who is president of the Inter-Club<br />
Council and a COVID captain thinks the system is working<br />
well. “Personally, I believe that this system is wonderful,” she<br />
says. “It allows students to still have events on campus while<br />
also taking measures for the community’s health and safety.”<br />
Sydney and Reesa both say that students have been open<br />
to the idea of COVID captains and are behaving responsibly.<br />
“I think that most of us on campus are thankful to be<br />
here, but understand that in order to keep each other safe,<br />
we must undertake necessary changes, like having additional<br />
health and safety measures at campus events,” Reesa says.<br />
Director of Student Engagement Jess Austin says students<br />
are embracing the changes. “They understand why there is<br />
an event approval process where I can review their events in<br />
advance for COVID guidelines and provide general event<br />
planning feedback,” she told us. “It’s led to better planning<br />
and marketing overall because they’re forced to start early.<br />
We actually will be keeping the event approval process moving<br />
forward, even once COVID is less of a threat.”<br />
Many of the traditional events have been able to take place<br />
this fall, though with adjustments. Opening convocation was<br />
held outside in the Dell. Although it was August and a little<br />
warm outside, every member of the community was able to<br />
Although there have been some<br />
good things about the pandemic, in<br />
terms of career services, one thing<br />
has been a challenge: internships,<br />
which have long been a hallmark of<br />
the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> experience. If you<br />
have or work for a business that<br />
could create a virtual internship<br />
program, please reach out to Barb<br />
Watts at bwatts@sbc.edu or 434-<br />
381-6465. Even if you can’t offer<br />
a paid internship, one for course<br />
credit and job experience can be<br />
invaluable to a <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> student.<br />
attend and enjoy the beauty of our stunning campus. SGA<br />
was able to successfully host Step Singing too, and many<br />
of the key aspects were the same. “SGA was able to do this<br />
by being creative and flexible,” Sydney says. “I find that the<br />
students and the <strong>College</strong> have been finding many ways to be<br />
creative and flexible during this time, and I am interested to<br />
see what we can come up with next.”<br />
Reesa says was impressed by the Founders’ Day Dance,<br />
which was held outside in front of the library. And as a<br />
dancer at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, she’s so far been pleased with the<br />
balance of safety and learning as part of that program. “All<br />
dancers have been given an N95 mask that is to be heated in<br />
an oven once a week to remove any germs on it,” she says. “In<br />
the dance rooms, UV lights are turned on after every class<br />
to purify the air. While our dance concert, at least for the<br />
fall, will not be live, we will be having a live, video showing<br />
of our pieces!”<br />
SGA president Madeleine McAllister ’21 agrees with her<br />
classmates even as she acknowledges the difficulty of the<br />
circumstances. “It is hard to see the place that I love look so<br />
different. At the end of the day, it’s about being a responsible<br />
citizen and the students have proven that they are willing to<br />
make sacrifices to their traditional <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> experience<br />
for the sake of being here and being safe. I am immensely<br />
proud of the students. I see students purposely choosing to<br />
stay on campus, following COVID guidelines, volunteering,<br />
being respectful to others’ needs, organizing events on<br />
campus for their peers on the weekends and advocating for<br />
the safety and wellbeing of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>.”<br />
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Although much of the spring and summer at <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> was spent addressing the changes wrought by the<br />
COVID-19 pandemic, that wasn’t the only thing the <strong>College</strong><br />
was working on. The <strong>College</strong> also launched a series of<br />
online summer sessions. It wasn’t just students who could<br />
take classes online; the extended <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> community<br />
could as well. The classes could be taken for credit or<br />
audited.<br />
Several first-year students used the time to get the true<br />
feel of being a <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> student prior to arriving in the<br />
fall. Erica Smith ’24 says, “I loved how, as a new student,<br />
I could get a hang of the classes and get a taste of the experience<br />
of being a <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> woman. It made me much<br />
more excited to arrive on campus and start classes because,<br />
even through the computer, I had a small taste of the freedom<br />
and empowerment that is so well known about our<br />
education here <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. But instead of only hearing<br />
about it, I got to live it.”<br />
Six courses were offered from mid-June through late July,<br />
including two classes from the leadership core curriculum:<br />
Women and Gender in the World and STEM in Society.<br />
Other courses included Magic and Witchcraft in the<br />
Ancient World, Modern Middle East, Introduction to<br />
American Government and Adapting for Diverse Learners<br />
in Education.<br />
Assistant engineering professor Michelle Gervasio taught<br />
STEM in Society and felt that were some benefits to the<br />
courses being online. “I really enjoyed working through<br />
the challenges of how to design experiments that everyone<br />
could do with things they had around the house but were<br />
still up to the usual standards of rigor expected during<br />
more typical in-person terms,” Michelle said. “I also really<br />
enjoyed how the very small class size helped to facilitate<br />
conversation whenever a subjective question of ethics or<br />
philosophy inevitably came up.”<br />
Associate professor of art history Kimberly Morse-Jones,<br />
who taught Women and Gender in The World, says she<br />
hopes the <strong>College</strong> offers summer courses again in the<br />
future. “I've been teaching for 15 years, and this summer<br />
session was by far one of my most memorable experiences<br />
as a professor,” she said.<br />
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Virginia Center for the Creative Arts<br />
purchases Mt. San Angelo property from<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Earlier this summer, the Virginia<br />
Center for the Creative Arts completed<br />
the purchase of the Mt. San<br />
Angelo estate from <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
The purchase includes 410 acres<br />
of land and all of the buildings at<br />
Mt. San Angelo, which has served as<br />
the home of VCCA’s artist residency<br />
program for 42 years.<br />
VCCA approached <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> in<br />
the spring of 2019 with the proposal<br />
to purchase the land it was leasing<br />
from the <strong>College</strong> and to have a permanent<br />
home.<br />
VCCA was established in 1971 as a<br />
retreat for writers, visual artists and<br />
composers to have the privacy and focus<br />
that is so necessary to their work.<br />
It moved from its original location<br />
in Charlottesville, Va., to Mt. San<br />
Angelo in 1978. Since then, VCCA<br />
has hosted thousands of working<br />
writers, visual artists and composers.<br />
VCCA intends to maintain the<br />
pastoral nature of Mt. San Angelo so<br />
that it will continue to be a place of<br />
quiet contemplation for the Fellows in<br />
residence there.<br />
“We are grateful to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>, which has made the property<br />
available to us for 42 years, and<br />
we couldn’t be more pleased to be in<br />
a position to make Mt. San Angelo<br />
our permanent home—across the<br />
street from our long-time partner.<br />
This partnership has strengthened<br />
both institutions over the years, and<br />
VCCA looks forward to continuing<br />
this relationship,” said VCCA Executive<br />
Director Kevin O’Halloran.<br />
“Although VCCA is closed temporarily<br />
due to the COVID-19 pandemic,<br />
we will be busy over the next several<br />
months making improvements to the<br />
buildings and grounds so that we can<br />
welcome Fellows back during 2021,<br />
our fiftieth anniversary year.”<br />
VCCA is one of the few artist<br />
residencies in the country affiliated<br />
with an institution of higher learning.<br />
VCCA Fellows in residence have<br />
full access to the recreational and<br />
cultural opportunities provided by<br />
the <strong>College</strong>, and indeed, the artists<br />
themselves often provide cultural opportunities<br />
to students and the <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> community.<br />
“The arts are at the heart of the<br />
liberal arts tradition at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>,”<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> President Meredith Woo<br />
said. “We understand and support<br />
VCCA’s desire to own the facilities<br />
and land that it has called its home.<br />
The relationship between the two institutions<br />
is exceptionally strong, and<br />
we look forward to further nurturing<br />
the ties across Highway 29.”<br />
The relationship between the two<br />
organizations includes events, seminars<br />
and classes. One such class is<br />
the Fellows Studio, which is a part of<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s leadership core curriculum<br />
and brings VCCA Fellows to<br />
campus to teach a class during each<br />
of the <strong>College</strong>’s three-week sessions.<br />
VCCA is also an integral part of<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s Center for Creativity,<br />
Design and the Arts.<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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On a Roll: <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> receives praise and<br />
recognition in the media<br />
Over the spring and summer, <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> received a wealth of positive<br />
attention across major media outlets<br />
both regionally and nationally.<br />
From <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s success after the<br />
attempted closure five years ago to<br />
reopening safely during the pandemic,<br />
the <strong>College</strong> has received a remarkable<br />
amount of attention despite these<br />
uncertain times.<br />
President Meredith Woo wrote<br />
two op-eds about the impact of the<br />
pandemic on higher education. Her<br />
first op-ed, “Ties that bind rural<br />
America,” appeared in The Richmond<br />
Times-Dispatch. In it, she shared her<br />
perspective on how the COVID-19<br />
pandemic could drastically affect<br />
colleges like <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and their<br />
local communities. She explained,<br />
“By supporting rural colleges, we can<br />
support rural America.”<br />
President Woo’s second op-ed, “A<br />
one-size-fits-all solution could be<br />
fatal to U.S. colleges,” was printed<br />
in the Washington Examiner. She<br />
explored the complex issues that large<br />
universities and small colleges would<br />
face if required to adhere to identical<br />
reopening plans. “I have little doubt<br />
that American colleges and universities<br />
will lead the way in finding new<br />
solutions for how we learn, live, work<br />
and relate to each other in the age of<br />
pandemics,” she wrote.<br />
Perhaps the most significant media<br />
coverage occurred was Susan Svrluga’s<br />
article in the Washington Post. Susan<br />
has followed <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s story for<br />
over five years and has written several<br />
articles about the <strong>College</strong>’s history,<br />
growth and development. Her most<br />
recent feature article—"This college is<br />
tiny and isolated. For some students<br />
during the pandemic, that sounds perfect”—explored<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s ability<br />
to meet the health and safety needs<br />
of its students and community, and<br />
showcased the benefits of the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
extensive campus, small classes<br />
and ability to offer single rooms to<br />
every student. “Many of the school’s<br />
pastimes can be pandemic-friendly,”<br />
Susan wrote in the article. For the<br />
article, Susan interviewed Tatum Wallis,<br />
a junior from Denver, who said,<br />
“On a loop around campus, there’s<br />
one stretch in the woods where the<br />
trees are so tall, it’s almost like perfect<br />
peace. The whole campus tends to be<br />
like that—you look around and you<br />
feel safe. You feel home.”<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> was also featured in an<br />
article in the Chronicle of Higher<br />
Education,<br />
“Welcome to<br />
the Socially<br />
Distanced<br />
Campus.”<br />
The article<br />
highlighted<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
plans for<br />
Want to read President<br />
Woo’s op-eds for yourself?<br />
You can find them<br />
on our website:<br />
sbc.edu/president/<br />
thought-leadership<br />
managing dining services and operations<br />
during the COVID-19 pandemic.<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s plan—developed in<br />
conjunction with our dining service<br />
provider, Meriwether Godsey—was<br />
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extensive and addressed every possible<br />
issue and scenario of keeping our<br />
campus community fed during the<br />
pandemic.<br />
An article in U.S. News & World<br />
Report, “The <strong>College</strong> Experience<br />
This <strong>Fall</strong>: What to Expect,” noted<br />
the differences between colleges as<br />
they shifted from in-person to online<br />
classes during the spring semester<br />
and explored how education would<br />
continue to be different in the fall.<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> was featured for its ability<br />
to offer a single room to any student<br />
who wanted one. The <strong>College</strong> was<br />
also praised in University Business<br />
for its spacious campus, 8-to-1 student-to-professor<br />
ratio and the ability<br />
to offer a fall semester with a greater<br />
sense of normalcy.<br />
A Richmond-Times Dispatch article,<br />
“A significant hit: Small colleges in<br />
Virginia rely on close-knit community<br />
to weather COVID-19,” highlighted<br />
the uncertainty that so many colleges<br />
in Virginia faced due to the pandemic.<br />
With a number of potential financial<br />
and safety issues, many colleges were<br />
preparing for a year full of unknowns.<br />
In the article, President Woo observed<br />
that <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s size provided the<br />
ability to better prepare and monitor<br />
our community. “Because we have<br />
always been small, it’s a lot easier to<br />
make sure that we keep track of our<br />
students, which then makes it easier<br />
for us to—at some personal level, and<br />
not just at a technological level—do<br />
the contact tracing and make sure we<br />
know where our students are,” she<br />
said.<br />
In addition to these feature news<br />
stories and op-eds on our ability to<br />
reopen safety, the Roanoke Times<br />
published an editorial about <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>’s remarkable (but not surprising)<br />
comeback since the attempted<br />
closure in 2015. Dwayne Yancey<br />
focused on the <strong>College</strong>’s strengths<br />
and the strategic moves its leadership<br />
has made in the recent past to reset<br />
tuition and restructure the academic<br />
curriculum. The editorial noted that<br />
alumnae support and donations continue<br />
to rise and the <strong>College</strong> was able<br />
to safely welcome students back to<br />
campus during the pandemic. “This is<br />
actually an incredible situation where<br />
we can say with true credibility, we are<br />
safe, we are healthful, we are smart,”<br />
President Woo said.<br />
You can find these news<br />
stories—and more—on our<br />
news site at sbc.edu/news.<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong> shifts the endowment of its<br />
study abroad program in France to support global<br />
programming<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong> has decided to<br />
reposition the endowments associated<br />
with its study abroad program, known<br />
as Junior Year in France, and instead<br />
offer more global educational opportunities<br />
to its students.<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s junior year abroad<br />
program in France is among the oldest<br />
and most venerable of such programs<br />
in the country. Its endowment has<br />
largely supported students through<br />
scholarships. In recent years, the<br />
support has gone mostly to students<br />
from colleges other than <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>,<br />
as the number of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> students<br />
interested in the French language and<br />
culture has dwindled.<br />
Now in the midst of the COVID-19<br />
pandemic that has led to suspension<br />
of study abroad programs in France<br />
and elsewhere, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong> is<br />
embracing more effective ways, other<br />
than the traditional study abroad programs,<br />
to expose its students to the<br />
dynamism of a global cultural experience.<br />
“Global exposure for students<br />
has been shifting from spending an<br />
entire academic year or semester in a<br />
foreign country to more rapid immersion<br />
activities, global internships<br />
and study in Europe and elsewhere,”<br />
said President Meredith Woo. <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong> has two three-week<br />
terms built into its calendar that are<br />
uniquely suited for an immersive<br />
study abroad.<br />
To that end, the proceeds from the<br />
endowments will now be used for the<br />
benefit of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> students taking<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s three-week term at the<br />
residence in Auvillar, France, that is<br />
owned by the Virginia Center for the<br />
Creative Arts. The three-week courses<br />
in Auvillar will be taught by <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> faculty and demonstrate the<br />
benefits of the <strong>College</strong>’s close relationship<br />
with VCCA.<br />
In addition to the experience at<br />
Auvillar, the funds will be used for<br />
other global studies trips organized by<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> faculty during the threeweek<br />
term to various parts of the<br />
world and to support global internships<br />
that enable <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> students<br />
to have a truly immersive experience<br />
abroad.<br />
The funds will also support programming<br />
for the global humanities,<br />
under the auspices of the Center for<br />
Creativity, Design and the Arts.<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Again Named Among Nation’s Most<br />
Innovative Schools by U.S. News & World Report<br />
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<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong> has once again<br />
been named as one of the nation’s Most<br />
Innovative Schools, according to the<br />
2021 Best <strong>College</strong>s rankings by U.S.<br />
News & World Report. <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> tied<br />
for 24th place with Bryn Mawr, Middlebury<br />
and two other institutions in the<br />
National Liberal Arts <strong>College</strong> category.<br />
The University of Richmond is the only<br />
other school in Virginia to make the list.<br />
This is the second time in three years that<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> has been singled out for this<br />
distinction, in recognition of its academic<br />
and institutional innovations.<br />
For over a century, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
has educated women who have gone<br />
on to serve as pillars of their families,<br />
communities, and societies, exercising a<br />
particularly democratic form of leadership<br />
that is collaborative, supportive and<br />
ethical. Today, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> is building<br />
on this educational legacy to redefine<br />
leadership for the 21st century, in which<br />
women will increasingly lead the way<br />
forward.<br />
In the past two years, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> has<br />
created and honed its new leadership<br />
core curriculum, whose 10 courses are<br />
designed to give its students the knowledge<br />
and skills they will need to understand<br />
global environmental and technological<br />
challenges and devise solutions<br />
to them that are socially, politically and<br />
economically sustainable.<br />
In educating the next generation<br />
of women leaders who can meet the<br />
demands of the new century, <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> brings many assets. Its 2,800-acre<br />
campus, one of the largest and most<br />
beautiful in the nation, is a natural canvas<br />
and laboratory for the academic program.<br />
It contains lakes, vineyards, an apiary,<br />
wildflower meadows, a state-of-the art<br />
26,000-square-foot greenhouse and the<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong> Historic District,<br />
comprised of 21 Georgian Revival<br />
academic and residential buildings. The<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s award-winning riding program<br />
is one of the oldest equestrian programs<br />
in the country, and its engineering program<br />
is one of only two ABET-accredited<br />
engineering programs at a women’s<br />
college in the nation.<br />
The President Woo, said, “<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s<br />
selection as one of the most innovative<br />
colleges recognizes its ability to foster<br />
and educate women leaders who will be<br />
able to conserve and steward our world<br />
in creative, responsible and sustainable<br />
ways. By extension, this recognition is<br />
also an affirmation of the creative possibilities<br />
inherent within the time-honored<br />
tradition of the liberal arts.”<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s ranking was determined<br />
by top academics who participated in<br />
U.S. News & World Report’s annual<br />
peer assessment survey conducted in<br />
the spring and summer of <strong>2020</strong>. <strong>College</strong><br />
presidents, provosts and admissions<br />
deans were asked to nominate up to 15<br />
colleges or universities in their respective<br />
ranking categories that are making the<br />
most innovative improvements in terms<br />
of curriculum, faculty, students, campus<br />
life, technology or facilities. A school had<br />
to receive seven or more nominations to<br />
be listed. U.S. News & World Report<br />
states that the top-ranked schools are<br />
those the public should be watching<br />
because of the cutting-edge changes they<br />
are making on their campuses.<br />
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Alumnae <strong>College</strong> Goes Virtual<br />
Alumnae <strong>College</strong> returned this year with two weekend sessions<br />
highlighting three courses in the <strong>College</strong>’s leadership core<br />
curriculum. The six core classes offered covered a variety of different<br />
subjects:<br />
CORE 130: Women and Gender in the World taught by Kimberly Morse Jones<br />
CORE 140: Sustainable Systems taught by Lisa Powell<br />
CORE 160: STEM in Society taught by John Morrissey<br />
CORE 170: Decisions in a Data-Driven World taught by Steven Loftus<br />
CORE 180: Dollars and Sense taught by August Hardy<br />
CORE 210: Contemporary Ethical Questions taught by Chris Penfield<br />
“Each class was unique and the<br />
variety of topics was fascinating,” says<br />
Barbara Conner ’85. “I signed up for<br />
all the classes because I was curious<br />
about the range of disciplines our<br />
students have access to these days.<br />
During the Alumnae <strong>College</strong> classes,<br />
we weren’t just sitting there for an<br />
hour-long lecture. There was a lot of<br />
discussion, some video, some interactive<br />
polling, etc., to keep students<br />
engaged. Each class was a stand-alone<br />
session, but you could see how the<br />
professors would weave the information<br />
from class to class for their students.<br />
I was impressed by the depth<br />
and breadth of the professors’ knowledge.<br />
They were engaging, interesting<br />
and interactive in compelling ways. It<br />
makes you want to go back to college!”<br />
Overall, our dedicated alumnae had<br />
rave reviews for this year’s virtual<br />
Alumnae <strong>College</strong> and enjoyed attending<br />
the various sessions. Attending the<br />
core classes transported our Vixens<br />
back to their days on campus. Those<br />
who attended received a real glimpse<br />
into what it’s like to be a student<br />
today.<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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the Harvest<br />
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Though only in their second year, the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
vineyards have done exceptionally well and proved hardy<br />
through the challenging frost this past spring. Earlier in<br />
the year, we started to hear that there would be enough<br />
grapes for a small harvest. You can imagine the anticipation!<br />
There would be enough Cabernet Sauvignon grapes<br />
for Meriwether Godsey Chef Wray Warner to make jelly<br />
and saba to use in campus dining and for special occasions.<br />
We knew roughly when the grapes would be ready: sometime<br />
in early October. But, the exact date was determined<br />
by the weather. “We knew for several weeks that we’d have<br />
some clusters ready to harvest,” said Lisa Powell, director<br />
of the Center for Human and Environmental Sustainability.<br />
“We worked with the vineyard manager and waited for<br />
just the right time: after rain and before much danger of<br />
frost. October 2 turned out to be the perfect day.<br />
On that day, Lisa, along with Gary Canfield, business<br />
project manager, set up a harvesting station in the vineyard<br />
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They worked alone, in pairs or in trios. As they filled baskets, they brought<br />
them to the station to be weighed and recorded. Most of them picked up<br />
empty baskets and went back out multiple times. They sampled a bit along<br />
the way, and some were surprised by how sweet the grapes were.”<br />
and welcomed the students who answered the call to help<br />
with the harvest. They streamed through the vineyards<br />
along Stable Road toward the green barn where the Cabernet<br />
Sauvignon is growing.<br />
Scales, baskets, clippers and plenty of hand sanitizer<br />
adorned the harvesting station. The harvest crew went<br />
through an orientation on proper cluster cutting and fruit<br />
culling, plus general and COVID safety. Ready to roll, the<br />
students grabbed their tools and dispersed through the<br />
vineyard. “They spent about an hour and a half harvesting<br />
the grapes,” says Lisa. “They worked alone, in pairs or<br />
in trios. As they filled baskets, they brought them to the<br />
station to be weighed and recorded. Most of them picked<br />
up empty baskets and went back out multiple times. They<br />
sampled a bit along the way, and some were surprised by<br />
how sweet the grapes were.”<br />
The students enjoyed themselves in the vineyard, while<br />
learning something about the intricate, and often repetitive,<br />
workings of maintaining such an operation. Many<br />
grape selfies were taken!<br />
Once the harvest was complete, all 262 pounds of Cabernet<br />
Sauvignon grapes were delivered directly to Chef Wray<br />
at Prothro on the back of two pick-up trucks. The chef<br />
got straight to work processing the entire harvest, making<br />
the first batches of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Cabernet Sauvignon jelly<br />
and saba (a grape must reduction) to use as condiments,<br />
sauces, dressings and marinades.<br />
Cheers to the future of the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> vineyard.<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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HISTORY<br />
EMILIE<br />
McVEA:<br />
A zeal for service<br />
In May 1925, the Times Dispatch in Richmond announced that<br />
Meta Glass would succeed Emilie Watts McVea as president of<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong>. Miss Glass, of course, would go on to be one<br />
of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s best-known presidents, but her predecessor was<br />
an impressive woman in her own right.<br />
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HISTORY<br />
Aerial view of campus, circa 1920<br />
Emilie McVea in 1916, when she became<br />
president of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
Miss McVea was deeply religious, but<br />
still progressive in many of her views.<br />
Writing about her following her death<br />
in 1928, Professor Martin Fischer from<br />
the University of Cincinnati said, “Emilie<br />
McVea associated herself with every<br />
important social movement. Secondary<br />
school education, child labor, literary<br />
productiveness, the drama, an open<br />
university forum, the interests of college<br />
women, university standards and university<br />
administration, the parity of men<br />
and women in university posts, competent<br />
teachers for women’s colleges, states’<br />
rights and the definitions of democracy<br />
were just a few of the interests to which<br />
she lent her marvelous energies.”<br />
Her tenure as <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s second<br />
president was shorter than it might have<br />
been—just nine years—but she embodied<br />
many of the qualities we still associate<br />
with <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> today: leadership,<br />
compassion and strength of character.<br />
The Early Years<br />
Miss McVea was born in 1867 in Louisiana,<br />
the daughter of a judge. Her father<br />
died when she was relatively young<br />
and the family moved to Raleigh, N.C.,<br />
to live with an aunt whose husband was<br />
president of St. Augustine’s <strong>College</strong>. The<br />
young Emilie was educated at St. Mary’s<br />
School in Raleigh, and she would be an<br />
active alumna of the school for the rest<br />
of her life.<br />
Miss McVea had already had an impressive<br />
career when she came to <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> to take over for the departing<br />
president, Mary K. Benedict. One of her<br />
early educational leadership positions<br />
was as “lady principal” at St. Mary’s.<br />
Following that, she went on to receive<br />
both bachelor’s and master’s degrees<br />
from George Washington University<br />
and taught English literature at the<br />
University of Tennessee. When the<br />
president of that university was named<br />
president at the University of Cincinnati,<br />
he thought so highly of Miss McVea<br />
that he recommended her for a teaching<br />
position at his new university, so off to<br />
Cincinnati she went.<br />
Eventually promoted to dean of<br />
women at the University of Cincinnati,<br />
Miss McVea was so well thought of<br />
that when she left to take up the reins<br />
Did You<br />
Know?<br />
Until recently,<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s<br />
presidents were<br />
called “Miss,”<br />
regardless of their<br />
advanced<br />
degree. Mary K.<br />
Benedict, Emilie<br />
McVea and Meta Glass<br />
had all earned<br />
doctoral degrees.<br />
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HISTORY<br />
Grammer Hall from the west, 1920 The cupola in 1921<br />
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Miss McVea received her<br />
honorary degree from<br />
the University of North<br />
Carolina in 1921. During<br />
the commencement address<br />
that year, newspaper editor<br />
Josephus Daniels told the<br />
graduates—all of them men,<br />
but for Miss McVea—to be<br />
nonconformists, disregard<br />
precedent and smash idols.<br />
“The radicals and nonconformists<br />
have led the<br />
world,” he said. It was a<br />
message Miss McVea would<br />
likely have agreed with.<br />
The governor of North<br />
Carolina, Cameron Morrison,<br />
however, did not. He had<br />
already done his part of<br />
conferring the degrees, but<br />
he stood up, and defying<br />
convention himself, told<br />
the graduates to accept the<br />
established order.<br />
at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> in 1916, she received<br />
tributes from a wide array of civic<br />
organizations. Among the letters<br />
of appreciation was one from the<br />
Council of Jewish Women, which<br />
noted that “she has been always ready<br />
to help with active suggestions and<br />
sincere interest.” The president of<br />
the chamber of commerce called her<br />
work for the city “inspiring” and the<br />
Association of Collegiate Alumnae<br />
called her a “fine example of the<br />
trained college woman and a personal<br />
inspiration” to many women. The<br />
Hamilton County Woman’s Suffrage<br />
Association, in expressing their<br />
regret at her departure, noted: “Your<br />
high ideals, your noble example—as<br />
well as your unswerving loyalty to<br />
this cause—have ever been a constant<br />
help and encouragement in our<br />
work.”<br />
Her colleagues echoed those sentiments:<br />
“She has been an inspiring<br />
teacher, an administrator and leader<br />
in the higher education of women,<br />
the chief organizer of social amenities<br />
in our university, and a factor in<br />
every beneficent civic movement. . . .<br />
She has been a fountain of judicious<br />
advice to public officials and weeping<br />
school girls. I supposed that she has<br />
vicariously been in love a thousand<br />
times, so great has been her sympathy<br />
with the confiding young. She<br />
has been able, also, as few other<br />
women, to meet men upon their own<br />
terms, to discuss with them in a large<br />
way their own problems.”<br />
Clearly, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> was about to<br />
welcome an impressive leader into its<br />
young community.<br />
A Woman of Principle<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> women today would<br />
recognize and support Miss McVea’s<br />
views on the importance of education<br />
for women. As early as 1910,<br />
she said in a speech, “The education<br />
of fifty years ago will not prepare the<br />
woman of today even for her traditional<br />
vocations; new conditions demand<br />
new training.” In a later essay,<br />
she wrote, “University courses should<br />
be planned, not for men or for women,<br />
but for students. . .these courses<br />
should be chosen by the student on<br />
the grounds of personal ability and<br />
inclination without regard to sex.”<br />
Just as she believed that young<br />
women should be able to choose<br />
whatever course of study interested<br />
them, she also believed that women<br />
should be trained to be leaders.<br />
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Surgical dressings class, 1918<br />
She spoke of the aim of the university to be, among other<br />
things, “to train leaders of thought and affairs.” In a letter to<br />
the president of the State Teacher’s <strong>College</strong> in Radford, she<br />
noted that her students “recognize that if they want to enter<br />
into any kind of professional life a<br />
college education today is almost<br />
a necessity. They feel that women<br />
have a right to look forward to<br />
leadership of various kinds and that<br />
a college does train leaders.”<br />
She herself held many positions<br />
of leadership throughout her career.<br />
She was president of the Cincinnati<br />
Woman’s Club, secretary-treasurer<br />
of the Southern Association of<br />
<strong>College</strong> Women and president of<br />
both the Virginia Association of<br />
<strong>College</strong>s and the Southern Association<br />
of <strong>College</strong>s. She was also the<br />
first woman member of the board<br />
of visitors at the University of Virginia and the first woman<br />
to receive an honorary degree from the University of North<br />
Carolina.<br />
At <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
Upon arriving in Amherst County, Miss McVea found<br />
herself at a school that was struggling financially and academically.<br />
Many of the students were part of the institution’s<br />
“Academy,” which provided classes for those who did not yet<br />
meet the standards of admission to collegiate work. Still, she<br />
intended make <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> into one of the premier learning<br />
institutions in the south.<br />
“Look not mournfully into the<br />
past, it comes not back again.<br />
Wisely improve the present, it<br />
is thine. Go forth to meet the<br />
shadowy future without fear<br />
and with a manly heart.”<br />
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br />
“Hyperion: A Romance”<br />
Writing in the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> in 1916, she said,<br />
“The possibilities of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> are unlimited. With adequate<br />
endowment, with increased facilities, with an enlarged<br />
student body, she stands at the threshold of a new decade.<br />
In imagination I see her the true<br />
Alma Mater of the woman of the<br />
years to come, a woman clear-eyed,<br />
strong of body, vigorous in mind.<br />
Her head erect, with knowledge to<br />
guide her, she walks forth ‘to meet<br />
the shadowy future without fear,’<br />
filled with reverence for truth and<br />
with zeal for service.”<br />
She got to work right away. She<br />
raised admissions standards and<br />
added courses in bacteriology,<br />
botany, Greek, history, psychology,<br />
ethics, English and languages. A<br />
separate department of physics was<br />
established, along with economics<br />
and social science. By the end of her first year, the president<br />
and her cabinet had determined “that the Academy should<br />
be dropped as soon as the financial condition warrants,” a<br />
circumstance that came to pass in 1919, just three years<br />
later.<br />
In fact, she’d made such in impact in three short years<br />
that in 1919, the student body dedicated the <strong>Briar</strong> Patch<br />
to her, saying, “With additional buildings, and an endowment,<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> can become within the next five or six<br />
years a college of five hundred students, and take its rightful<br />
place in the educational world. These few facts speak for<br />
themselves, and while we realize it has taken and will take<br />
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A Woman of<br />
Her Time<br />
President McVea was clearly<br />
progressive in her views about<br />
education, but in many ways,<br />
she was also a product of her<br />
time and her culture. She was<br />
a deeply religious woman and<br />
had strong opinions about<br />
appropriate behavior for her<br />
students. She clearly felt it was<br />
her duty, not just to educate<br />
them, but to prepare them to<br />
be successful in the world. And<br />
success in those days meant<br />
fairly strict adherence to a code<br />
of conduct. For example, there<br />
were very strict rules about<br />
riding in closed automobiles<br />
with young men and attending<br />
events without chaperones.<br />
Smoking and card playing were<br />
also forbidden. The meeting<br />
notes for the executive council,<br />
which included the president<br />
as well as faculty, note that one<br />
student had been found “guilty<br />
of unseemly conduct with a man<br />
on the train.” Students were<br />
routinely disciplined for such<br />
infractions, including losing<br />
privileges and, occasionally,<br />
expulsion.<br />
Quad Road, 1922<br />
many hands to carry on the work, we<br />
feel too, that words can but poorly<br />
express our gratitude and admiration<br />
for Miss McVea’s splendid initiative<br />
and accomplishment.”<br />
Miss McVea went on the road to<br />
raise funds for <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> as well as<br />
to recruit students. She was regularly<br />
featured in newspaper society<br />
announcements as being the guest of<br />
honor at events held for the purpose<br />
of raising money for the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> endowment. In addition, her<br />
time as <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s president from<br />
1916 to 1925 meant that she oversaw<br />
more than one global crisis.<br />
During World War I, the <strong>College</strong><br />
engaged in many war activities:<br />
raising money, rolling bandages,<br />
writing letters, supporting the Food<br />
Administration and working for<br />
the YWCA and the Red Cross. In<br />
writing about the end of the war,<br />
she said, “With all our might we<br />
will hold to the ideals of courage, of<br />
high purpose, of patriotism, and of<br />
humanity which these stern months<br />
have taught us; we will endeavor, to<br />
the utmost of our ability, as a college<br />
and as individuals, to do our part in<br />
interpreting to our generation the<br />
larger, finer meaning of democracy<br />
and of internationalism. <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>,<br />
even in its exquisite seclusion, has<br />
felt the throb, the heartbeat of the<br />
world. Her life has been enlarged<br />
and enriched by a share, small but<br />
real, in the activities and sacrifices of<br />
the nations of the earth. It has been<br />
our high privilege to have lived and<br />
wrought in the greatest years of the<br />
world’s history.”<br />
Following the end of the war<br />
came the influenza epidemic in<br />
1918, during which the students<br />
were “campused for almost a year,”<br />
according to one alumna’s recollection.<br />
“When we were released to go<br />
home at Christmas,” she wrote, “Miss<br />
McVea gave us stern orders to wear<br />
veils closely tied over our faces and<br />
never to take off our gloves until we<br />
reached home!”<br />
Later Years<br />
The work of supporting and guiding<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, then as now, is yeoman’s<br />
work, and Miss McVea, never<br />
robust, submitted her resignation in<br />
1925 after suffering many months<br />
of ill health, apparently brought on<br />
by the strain of her administrative<br />
duties.<br />
In accepting her resignation, the<br />
faculty wrote, “The material successes<br />
of your nine years of arduous<br />
service are evident to all who know<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, the rapid increase in<br />
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Rolling bandages, 1918 President McVea as president, circa 1922 The arcade in 1921<br />
number of students, the enlargement of the Faculty, the<br />
enrichment of the course of study, the number of buildings<br />
erected and the care given to beautify the campus—these<br />
material achievements are patent and to be grasped by every<br />
passerby—but only the Faculty can fully estimate the more<br />
subtle yet precious achievements of the past nine years—the<br />
resolute breadth of view, the strenuous effort to guide not<br />
coerce into the straight path, to clear the vision, to uphold<br />
ideas, to work sympathetically with Faculty as well as with<br />
students, to give everyone a chance to attain her highest,<br />
these achievements, known to us most of all seem best<br />
worthwhile. Because of your patience, tolerance, love, we<br />
love you and feel keenly the loss of your presence and we<br />
wish you restored health and energy in the coming years, to<br />
help others as you have helped us.”<br />
Miss McVea left a number of legacies at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> that<br />
we still recognize and celebrate today. Under her leadership,<br />
enrollment grew from 134 to 362, the number of faculty<br />
grew from 17 to 34, and 10 new buildings were erected,<br />
including Fletcher, Reid and Boxwood—which she personally<br />
helped finance. It was under her watch that the Class of<br />
1922 added the walk to Daisy’s grave during Founders’ Day,<br />
paying a simple, beautiful tribute at the grave of the young<br />
girl in whose memory <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> was founded. It was also<br />
during her tenure that the <strong>College</strong> first hosted Amherst<br />
County Day. In 1916, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> was recognized only by<br />
the department of education in Virginia. By the end of her<br />
presidency, it was a member of a number of associations<br />
and had been put on the approved list of the Association of<br />
American Universities.<br />
After she left <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, she spent several months convalescing<br />
before undertaking a teaching job at Rollins <strong>College</strong><br />
in Florida. Her efforts on behalf of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> were recognized<br />
by her new home. Upon her arrival in the state, the<br />
Orlando Sentinel noted that she “was instrumental in developing<br />
[<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong>] into one of the leading colleges<br />
for women in the country, by raising standards and securing<br />
large sums of money for endowment and buildings.”<br />
Sadly, her time at Rollins was short; she passed away in<br />
1928. In October of that year, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s Founders’ Day<br />
events included a memorial to her. The inimitable Meta<br />
Glass, her successor, noted that Miss McVea had set a high<br />
standard. “She had put into <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> perhaps her hardest<br />
work, certainly her maturest self,” Miss Glass wrote. “She<br />
watched new hands upon her wheel with abounding generosity.<br />
I found a fine and strong structure of her building and<br />
in my efforts to uphold and add to it I found joy always in<br />
her interest and her counsel. She relinquished with the same<br />
grace with which she acquired. I know no greater mark of a<br />
large soul.”<br />
Emilie McVea’s Views<br />
on Women’s Suffrage<br />
University of Cincinnati Professor<br />
Martin Fischer observed:<br />
“During the first years that I knew Emilie<br />
McVea, the enfranchisement of women<br />
was not yet a fact. She was, of course, its<br />
advocate. . . .Though from the South, she<br />
stood against what was then the southern<br />
view; within the city of her adoption she<br />
aligned herself with the minority; and<br />
within the inner circle of her friends she<br />
stood almost alone. I still remember what<br />
were her arguments in the case. She did<br />
not, as other feminists, trot out a series of<br />
inadequate measuring devices to show<br />
that men and women are biologically<br />
the same—she too well understood the<br />
splendid consequences of the fact that<br />
they are different—but life and experience<br />
had outraged her sense of justice and she<br />
wished once more to see assured to a<br />
defenseless minority those rights in law and<br />
society which our constitution guaranteed<br />
men. ‘It will give the vote to prostitutes,’<br />
said one woman to her. ‘Who needs it<br />
more?’ came her quiet answer.<br />
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ALUMNAE PROFILE<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Alumnae<br />
LEADING<br />
IN THE FIGHT<br />
AGAINST COVID-19<br />
At the end of last year, the feeling in the air was one of excitement to ring in a new<br />
decade: the roaring ’20s. But little did most of us know just how roaring it would<br />
actually be. From the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic to the fight for<br />
racial equality to saving homes, livelihoods and land from natural disasters, our ability to<br />
rise to the challenge has been tested over and over again.<br />
While the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> woman is well known for her consistent “where there’s a will, there’s<br />
a way” attitude and “never back down” spirit, her leadership training shines even brighter<br />
when confronted with a seemingly insurmountable challenge. After all, here, the impossible<br />
is just another problem to solve.<br />
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ALUMNAE PROFILE<br />
The challenges this year have been monumental, but there is one group that<br />
deserves special recognition: those who work or volunteer in health care and safety.<br />
There are many <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> alumnae out there in these lines of work who found<br />
themselves suddenly becoming frontline, essential leaders and dedicated team<br />
players and volunteers. Let us introduce you to four alumnae from four class decades,<br />
each working in different health care or emergency services fields.<br />
Laura Lee<br />
Rihl Joiner ’96<br />
OB/GYN, Women’s Health<br />
of Augusta<br />
Augusta, Georgia<br />
After graduating from<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, Laura Lee<br />
joined the Army on a scholarship,<br />
was on active duty<br />
in Texas and Oklahoma and<br />
spent six months in Baghdad. She graduated<br />
from medical school in 2000, and eight years ago, she<br />
moved back to her hometown of Augusta, Ga.<br />
Laura Lee is an OB/GYN with Women’s Health of<br />
Augusta, a six-person private practice associated with the<br />
University Hospital of Augusta. While she practices general<br />
obstetrics and gynecology, she specializes in pediatric<br />
and adolescent care.<br />
At the beginning of the year, she remembers taking note<br />
of what was going on in the world as the coronavirus<br />
spread around the world and into the United States. “We<br />
started to prepare for when the tidal wave would hit,” she<br />
says. “We didn’t know what to anticipate. Would it hit<br />
early or be delayed? Then, the major shutdown started<br />
mid-March, and we responded accordingly with strict<br />
safety protocols.”<br />
As a general OB/GYN practice, Women’s Health of Augusta<br />
sees patients of all ages. As such, they had numerous<br />
needs and concerns to address, and they especially had to<br />
safeguard their older population. “We had multiple strategies<br />
in the office to continue to serve patients while keeping<br />
them safe. We separated the obstetric patients from the<br />
older gynecological patients with complicated cases.”<br />
However, as soon as they noticed the waiting room was<br />
becoming too crowded for safe social distancing, the team<br />
quickly came together to find a solution. “We staggered<br />
the practitioners’ schedules so that there were only four<br />
doctors in the office at a time. We marked off safe distancing<br />
in the waiting room—six feet is larger than you<br />
think! We also limited visitors. Now, only the patient is<br />
permitted to come to the appointment, with exceptions<br />
for minors, pregnant patients and people with disabilities.”<br />
The response from their patients has been positive, saying<br />
they felt safe coming in for their visit.<br />
An important part of developing a successful solution is<br />
not being afraid to try various methods, learn from lessthan-ideal<br />
outcomes and course-correct along the way.<br />
“This is version 10 of what we’ve tried, but the current<br />
version has proven to be very successful,” says Laura Lee,<br />
adding that it’s the patients’ reaction and feeling that really<br />
shows them what is working.<br />
Among the practitioners and staff in the office, Laura<br />
Lee is the one in charge of keeping everyone up to date<br />
with the endless stream of information coming in from the<br />
CDC, the governor’s office and other health care organizations<br />
regarding how to handle health and safety around<br />
COVID-19. She collects and analyzes all the incoming information<br />
and spearheads the necessary process and operational<br />
changes. “I’m the primary point person in our group<br />
to collect the latest information and see how it needs to be<br />
implemented in our practice,” says Laura Lee.<br />
When asked how her personal interaction with her<br />
patients has changed, she emphasizes “not much, except we<br />
now sit on opposite sides of the exam room to talk.” She<br />
places a high value on the doctor-patient relationship and<br />
likes to always be at eye-level when talking to each other—<br />
while maintaining a safe distance.<br />
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Jade Ashley ’20<br />
Board secretary, Lovingston Volunteer Fire Department<br />
Lovingston, Virginia<br />
Throughout an unprecedented senior spring semester,<br />
Jade found stability and purpose in her family’s long tradition<br />
of community work. The Lovingston Volunteer Fire<br />
Department played a major role in her life growing up.<br />
Her grandfather was fire chief. Her grandmother was vice<br />
president and president of the department. Her mother<br />
is treasurer. And, since 2017, Jade has served as the board<br />
secretary.<br />
“This year has been tough, especially for a volunteer<br />
organization,” says Jade. “It is difficult to stay staffed. Our<br />
volunteer firefighters now rotate who is on-call, and they<br />
are not able to hang out at the fire house, which is hard<br />
on morale. There are no visitors and only five people are<br />
allowed in the fire house at one time. Where we used to<br />
have six to eight firefighters go out on the larger truck for<br />
an emergency call, there can now only be four. The smaller<br />
truck can only have two.”<br />
It’s hard to imagine adding even more protective equipment<br />
to a firefighter’s gear, but that’s exactly what they<br />
had to do. There are different levels of firefighters, which<br />
dictates the type of personal protective equipment needed.<br />
One change in the operational procedures brought on by<br />
the pandemic is that the firefighter suits need to be washed<br />
after each call. And, as you might imagine, your average<br />
washing machine is not up to the task. Thanks to funding<br />
from the state, the department was able to purchase special<br />
washing machines to handle the heavy loads.<br />
In the midst of the pandemic, another challenge suddenly<br />
hit when their fire chief was in an automobile accident.<br />
He would always show up at every call, and suddenly, the<br />
firefighting crew had to adapt. But unsurprisingly, the<br />
community stepped up in every way to help keep all the<br />
parts moving, enabling the department to do the job they<br />
love for the people they love.<br />
“Our service area expanded, and all the local EMS have<br />
seen an increase in calls,” says Jade. Rigorous protocols on<br />
how to handle emergency response situations were put<br />
in place, especially around how to handle instances when<br />
someone might test positive for COVID-19.<br />
In her role, she has seen first-hand how emergency<br />
responders have adapted to continue to serve their community<br />
during the COVID-19 pandemic. She steps up to<br />
help in every way she can. Feeling connected brings her<br />
great joy and pride. “Supporting my community and local<br />
businesses is very important to me,” says Jade. “Especially<br />
during difficult times.”<br />
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Board Member Expertise<br />
in Public Health<br />
Marianne “Mimi” C. Fahs ’71<br />
Mimi is an instrumental member of President Woo’s<br />
COVID Task Force as she has more than 30 years of experience<br />
as a health economist. She held a joint appointment<br />
at the City University of New York as a professor of<br />
health policy with the Graduate School of Public Health<br />
and Health Policy and professor of economics with the<br />
Graduate Center. She also directed the Health Economics<br />
Division at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.<br />
“Early on, the task force carefully thought through the<br />
campus reopening plan and everyone quickly became<br />
very familiar with public health principles,” says Mimi.<br />
“Our president acted quickly and decisively to come together<br />
as a community to not let this virus beat us and<br />
continue to do what we know and love.”<br />
“My whole career focused on how to maximize the public<br />
good in a scientific, rational way,” she continues. “I centered<br />
my teaching around the impact of scientific modeling<br />
and policy activism. Together, science and policy can<br />
really make a difference in the health of people. When<br />
teaching health economics, I’d go through models that<br />
look at cost on one side of the equation and quality of life<br />
on the other. How can you improve health at a population<br />
level, and what does it cost? This is something that gets<br />
very complicated, very quickly. Students look at each assumption<br />
that goes into the models and specifically study<br />
peer-reviewed scientific literature and evidence.”<br />
For Mimi, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s liberal arts education excels at<br />
preparing women to meet any challenge and be a valuable<br />
asset in any field, no matter her area of study. “We learn<br />
how to think, explore and analyse. A respect for depth of<br />
thought and effort has helped create all the advantages of<br />
the modern age; much of that comes from the qualities of<br />
a liberal arts education.”<br />
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Dr. Jamila Champsi ’80<br />
Infectious disease specialist,<br />
Kaiser Permanente<br />
South San Francisco<br />
South San Francisco, California<br />
As an infectious<br />
disease specialist, Dr.<br />
Champsi is front and<br />
center in the fight<br />
against COVID-19,<br />
and she credits <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> with giving her<br />
a strong foundation<br />
to succeed in medical<br />
school at University of<br />
Arizona and training<br />
at Stanford University<br />
hospital through an<br />
internal medicine residency<br />
and infectious<br />
disease fellowship.<br />
“I learned about<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s open<br />
house at college night,” says Jamila. “When I visited, I<br />
found the students to be warm and the faculty brilliant<br />
and dedicated. They helped you identify what you needed<br />
to work on and how to build your strength. The <strong>College</strong> is<br />
a very unique place, and I don’t know if there is any other<br />
place like it. It taught you to believe in yourself, to always<br />
ask questions, to work with partners and to find resources,<br />
answers and always be willing to ask for assistance. It helps<br />
you be a contributing member of society.”<br />
Medicine combined Jamila’s interest in science, helping<br />
others and research. After <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, she worked at<br />
Rockefeller University investigating immunoparasitology<br />
of malaria and African sleeping sickness. Presently, she is<br />
involved in viral hepatitis research.<br />
After attending medical school and completing her training,<br />
she joined Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco in<br />
1996. Today, she is chief of infectious disease and chair of<br />
infection prevention. The simple definition of prevention<br />
is using a scientific approach and practical solutions to<br />
prevent harm by infections. One of her responsibilities is<br />
to ensure the hospital adapts and follows CDC, WHO<br />
and public health guidelines. “My team establishes infection<br />
prevention protocols for the hospital and clinics. We<br />
educate and oversee local policies and procedures to ensure<br />
and maintain safety while caring for infectious patients.”<br />
Jamila, together with the infection prevention manager<br />
nurse, are the experts when it comes to handling<br />
COVID-19. They have different expertise and focus, and<br />
together, they cover all the needs in every department.<br />
Jamila participated in developing Kaiser’s regional<br />
guidelines that were adapted to meet the needs of each<br />
Kaiser location and their patients. “We develop workflows<br />
for labs, radiology, hospital, Operating Room and clinics.<br />
We recommended and approved PPE and made sure it is<br />
What’s Your COVID Call<br />
to Action?<br />
Obviously, we can only share a few stories<br />
about our amazing alumnae in the magazine,<br />
but we know your stories are inspiring and<br />
need to be heard. You are the foundation<br />
upon which alumnae and students alike<br />
realize the their full potential.<br />
Do you have a story about how you have<br />
contributed to the fight against COVID-19?<br />
For instance, what changes did you<br />
implement at work? How did you pivot to<br />
adapt and continue to succeed? How have<br />
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Contact the alumnae office at alumnae@sbc.edu<br />
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properly fitted. We provided ongoing training and education<br />
for all staff and physicians. Things are continually<br />
changing, and we’re continually adapting.” Their work<br />
began right at the start of the year, and they had completed<br />
several mock drills in all areas by the time the hospital saw<br />
its first COVID-19 patient.<br />
Having been at Kaiser for many years, the staff know<br />
and trust her, but she always reminds them, “You need to<br />
trust your science because that is what everything is based<br />
on. When you get on a plane you don’t think about being<br />
up in the air, but that’s you trusting science. Listen to what<br />
science is saying about COVID.” She emphasized that<br />
“safety messaging needs to be consistent to be effective.”<br />
“What’s been good is seeing everyone pull together to<br />
coordinate care, support each other and communicate,”<br />
says Jamila. “This is a team effort, and everyone has been<br />
very engaged.”<br />
As far as changes to the patient experience, many of them<br />
have already been underway in health care overall, such<br />
as telehealth. Jamila shared a couple simple changes that<br />
made a big impact on the comfort of both providers and<br />
patients: “We placed windows in the doors of COVID<br />
patient rooms so that we could monitor them to ensure<br />
they are OK. Patients are able to interact and wave to staff.<br />
We put baby monitors in the room so we are able to talk<br />
with each other.”<br />
When asked what she has learned from managing the<br />
COVID pandemic response, Jamila shared this important<br />
reminder: “It taught me that it’s OK not to know everything,<br />
and it’s OK to be part of the learning curve.”<br />
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ALUMNAE PROFILE<br />
Cortney Lewandowski ’12<br />
Surgical assistant and histotechnician,<br />
Dermatology Consultants, Inc.<br />
Lynchburg, Virginia<br />
Cortney has not only been instrumental to her colleagues<br />
at Dermatology Consultants, but she continues to be highly<br />
involved with <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, helping in any way she can as<br />
a member of the Alumnae Alliance Council Young Alumnae<br />
Support Working Group. While at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, she<br />
lived at home in Amherst, which prompted her to search<br />
for ways to get involved on campus. She noticed how much<br />
students enjoyed giving back to the community, and this<br />
helped solidify her desire to help.<br />
“One initiative I was particularly proud of was helping<br />
the <strong>College</strong> launch their partnership with Amherst Cares,<br />
who provides food and school supplies to Amherst County<br />
students,” says Cortney. She received an outreach award for<br />
the program, which continues to go strong year after year.<br />
“Because of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, I learned how to be there for others,<br />
how to make yourself known and how to have a voice.”<br />
For Cortney, a dance major, it was not the most obvious<br />
leap to working as a surgical assistant in a dermatology office.<br />
“I was looking for a steady job and started at Dermatology<br />
Consultants, helping shift the office from paper to<br />
electronic records,” says Cortney. “That led to me learning<br />
lots of other responsibilities and cross-training to help in<br />
other areas of the office. I became involved with patient<br />
check-in, began to scribe, then in January <strong>2020</strong>, an opening<br />
came up in the surgical suite as a surgical assistant.”<br />
She never saw herself as going into the medical field but<br />
was intrigued. “I like helping people, and when you love<br />
your job, the patients notice. It is truly a female-empowered<br />
office. As a surgical assistant, I have more one-on-one<br />
time with patients, which I love.”<br />
“When it became apparent early in the year that<br />
COVID-19 was about to change how we worked and<br />
lived, everyone on our team came together to decide how<br />
and where to go from here,” says Cortney. They needed to<br />
triage their patients so they could see the most advanced or<br />
complicated cases first. They ended up developing a tiered<br />
system based on the severity of skin cancer, which dictated<br />
who needed to be treated first and who could wait. The<br />
staff split up and called all their patients in shifts.<br />
Unlike many of the others in the office, she doesn’t have<br />
kids or other people at home to care for, so she felt she was<br />
in a better place to step up and help as much as possible.<br />
“We started out by wearing long surgical gowns but found<br />
a better system because they ended up getting in the way.<br />
We also found an N95 mask that has a gel base, so it’s<br />
more comfortable when wearing glasses, a shield and surgical<br />
caps.”<br />
Dermatological consultations that were once held in<br />
person had suddenly shifted to virtual. “The majority of<br />
our patients are older, and we found that to be a difficult<br />
transition for many.” But because of the personal touch and<br />
connection with their patients, they found ways to make<br />
them comfortable and confident.<br />
When asked what this pandemic experience has shown<br />
her, she shares insight that falls in line with design thinking,<br />
a cornerstone of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s leadership core curriculum:<br />
“It is important to hear every side of the story in<br />
order to develop the best solution. You must truly work<br />
together and be supportive when times are hectic.”<br />
On page 12, learn more about Cortney<br />
and how, after spring break, she provided<br />
a virtual fitness dance class for <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
students and alumnae.<br />
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Chris Svoboda ’84<br />
<strong>2020</strong> fall Step Singing<br />
Alumnae Ensure Continuation of a<br />
Bum Chum Tradition<br />
Every year since 1961, Bum Chums have<br />
proudly worn red and white scarves and<br />
delighted in ringing the attached bells,<br />
unnerving many a QV!<br />
These scarves are revered and each contains<br />
the name of every Bum who’s worn<br />
it thoughout the years. Within the jumble<br />
of Bum Chum names, there are even a few<br />
green tags of names of enterprising QVs<br />
who have adopted the scarf for a few days.<br />
Since the late 80s, Bum Chums have added<br />
a bell each year to the scarves, creating<br />
an impressive display and sound of ringing<br />
with each step.<br />
This year’s group of Bum Chums made<br />
the difficult decision to donate the wellloved<br />
scarves to the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> museum.<br />
Within hours of announcing the retirement<br />
of the original scarves, eight alumnae<br />
volunteered to knit new scarves for the<br />
students. Chris Svoboda ’84, a spirited<br />
QV in her days at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, created<br />
the initial patterns. Cynthia Hardy<br />
McCabe ’75 worked tirelessly to perfect<br />
the patterns and secure the perfect shade<br />
of red and white yarn for the knitters.<br />
Cyndi spearheaded the knitting, acting as<br />
instructor and cheerleader.<br />
In addition to Chris and Cyndi, the<br />
following alumnae worked diligently<br />
throughout the summer: Kristen Barnes<br />
’08, Blair Redd Schmeig ’83, Holly<br />
McGlothlin ’78 (another proud QV!),<br />
Kimberly Shaheen White ’96 (Kimberly<br />
made two scarves), Clara Barton Green<br />
’89 and Robin Bayless ’80.<br />
Each alumna carefully and diligently<br />
knitted, considering it an honor to give<br />
to the students during the longest days of<br />
the pandemic restrictions. Many alumnae<br />
included notes of encouragement and<br />
support, sharing their love of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
with the students. Chris knitted her scarf<br />
in memory of the late Michelle McSwain<br />
Williams ’83, who was a Bum when Chris<br />
was a QV, and classmate Mary Margaret<br />
Cranz Smith ’84. Michelle and Chris<br />
became the best of friends, in spite of the<br />
friendly competition and teasing.<br />
The current students were thrilled to receive<br />
the beautiful new scarves, each with<br />
a large jingle bell and charms representing<br />
an old shoe, ladybug and daisy. Not even a<br />
global pandemic could keep these alumnae<br />
from presenting the gorgeous new scarves<br />
to the current Bums by fall Step Singing!<br />
This special project was an inspirational<br />
example of the remarkable support of<br />
alumnae, their love of the students and<br />
the can-do spirit of a <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> woman.<br />
Truly, there is nothing that she cannot do!<br />
Cynthia Hardy McCabe ’75<br />
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GIVING<br />
Gift from Richard C. Colton, Jr.,<br />
Kicks Off the Riding Program’s<br />
Second Century<br />
You start to feel the excitement even before you see the improvements<br />
to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s stables, which were made possible because of a<br />
$1 million gift from Richard C. Colton, Jr. The stables will be named<br />
the Howell Lykes Colton ’38 Stables in honor of his mother.<br />
Over the past four months, construction crews have worked tirelessly<br />
to complete extensive renovations to the west and east wings, the<br />
Cronin Yard and the Bailey Room.<br />
“By updating our facilities, the riding center can continue to match<br />
the caliber of our students and quality of our program,” says Mimi<br />
Wroten ’93, director of the riding program and head NCEA coach.<br />
“We’ve always recruited students who are successful scholars, riders<br />
and athletes. Now, the newly renovated stables mirror who we, and<br />
they, truly are.”<br />
Since the <strong>College</strong> moved to online learning for the spring semester,<br />
construction was able to start ahead of schedule in April. Beginning<br />
with stall and floor demolition in the west wing of the stables, followed<br />
shortly by the east wing, the scale of the project was evident as you<br />
stood in the open, cleaned out space. <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> staff involved in the<br />
project—being highly tuned in to the benefits of repurposing and<br />
sustainability—kept a sharp eye out for any wood or other materials<br />
that could be salvaged for future use.<br />
For those of us who have spent time at the stables over the past<br />
49 years, the original facilities will always hold a special place in our<br />
hearts, filled with memories of opening the wire mesh stall doors for<br />
early morning grooming, hearing the sound of hooves on the concrete<br />
aisleway, organizing the grooming shelves near the cross-ties, sharing<br />
the small sink in the tack rooms to clean all that leather and, of course,<br />
naps on the Bailey Room couch—if you know, you know!<br />
Now, as you walk through the state-of-the-art east and west wings,<br />
you can’t help but pause to take it all in. Your eye jumps from the<br />
multi-surface aisleway with non-slip, cushioned pavers to the gorgeous<br />
new stalls with sliding doors to the abundance of bright overhead<br />
lighting. Much thought went into creating an excellent environment<br />
for our horses, students and staff.<br />
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GIVING<br />
Riding Center<br />
Renovations Phase I<br />
Raised $1,476,00<br />
Left to raise $381,000<br />
If you’re interested in supporting the<br />
renovations to the riding center, call<br />
434-381-6131 or visit sbc.edu/give.<br />
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GIVING<br />
sbc.edu<br />
“Everything from the bright lights in the<br />
aisleway trimmed in <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> pink to<br />
the fans, stall doors and automatic waterers<br />
has made such a big impact on our daily<br />
work managing the stables and caring<br />
for each horse,” says Amie Chenault, stable<br />
manager.<br />
Each of the 49 stalls are designed with<br />
the horse’s and human’s comfort, convenience<br />
and safety in mind. Each horse has<br />
an overhead fan and feeding stations and<br />
automatic waterers are precisely laid out.<br />
Covered groom boxes were custom-made<br />
for each stall that has, on the front, a place<br />
to include information and notes on that<br />
particular horse. The tack rooms also are<br />
being updated with beautiful wood paneling,<br />
climate control and a sink and cleaning<br />
station on an island in the center of the<br />
room with plenty of recessed lighting.<br />
“I love walking in here, it’s just so pretty<br />
and well done. And, I feel like the horses<br />
enjoy it. It’s calm and clean,” says Lizzie<br />
Fisch, associate director of the riding<br />
program, head IHSA coach and assistant<br />
NCEA coach. “The fans are cool and<br />
refreshing. The lighting is beautiful. The<br />
stall mats are very nice and comfortable<br />
for the horses. The custom-made groom<br />
boxes on the front of each stall keep everything<br />
tidy, which really makes the aisles<br />
look sharp organized. And, I can’t wait for<br />
everyone, especially the teams, to enjoy the<br />
new Bailey Room. That will make such<br />
a difference in their experience to have a<br />
new, updated and comfortable space to<br />
learn, relax and enjoy their time together.”<br />
“The new stalls, tack rooms and aisleways<br />
will make a huge impact for many<br />
years to come, enabling students to pursue<br />
their equestrian goals in the best environment<br />
possible,” says Mimi.<br />
Between the two stable wings is the<br />
Cronin Yard, the central courtyard which<br />
serves as a gathering and mounting area.<br />
It’s also a welcoming space that leads<br />
people to the main entrance through the<br />
Bailey Room. The courtyard is undergoing<br />
its own beautification project, which will<br />
make it even more of a favorite location for<br />
a photo op.<br />
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GIVING<br />
The Bailey Room has always served as<br />
the main lounge, teaching space, indoor<br />
arena viewing area and staff offices. It’s a<br />
favorite place to relax and recuperate as<br />
well as learn about riding theory and connect<br />
with friends. Now, because of a lead<br />
gift through the generosity of William<br />
Passano in memory of his wife, Honey<br />
’55, and an anonymous donor, the Bailey<br />
Room will meet all the contemporary<br />
needs of our growing program. Numerous<br />
large windows will open up the view of the<br />
indoor arena, a better-equipped kitchen<br />
and lounge area will keep people comfortable<br />
and a dedicated teaching space will<br />
boost the experience of learning about<br />
theory, management, training and equine<br />
health.<br />
While Mimi is eagerly looking towards<br />
what the future has in store once renovations<br />
are complete, she is quick to<br />
comment how grateful the riding program<br />
and entire <strong>College</strong> are to be the recipient<br />
of such generous gifts. “To have received<br />
such a significant boost to the riding<br />
program is remarkable. These donors have<br />
opened the door to elevating the quality<br />
of our facilities to be among the top in the<br />
nation—a status that we exceeded when<br />
the Rogers Riding Center was first built<br />
in 1971.”<br />
Katie Balding ’21 is president of<br />
the Riding Council, holds numerous<br />
accolades in the NCEA, ODAC and<br />
ECAC and was named the <strong>2020</strong> <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> Rider of the Year. Here’s what she<br />
has to say about the transformation of<br />
the riding center.<br />
“The overall feeling in the barn is definitely<br />
a sense of newness but tradition<br />
is not lost. What is most important in<br />
the new barn is the functionality of the<br />
space and the comfort of the horses, as<br />
was before. It feels like our same home<br />
riding center, but with an updated,<br />
fresh new look.<br />
“I have two favorite improvements<br />
so far! Firstly, I absolutely adore the<br />
new barn doors. They have these huge,<br />
beautiful windows and lovely trim.<br />
Now, even when the doors are closed in<br />
the winter or because of bad weather,<br />
there will still be light shining into the<br />
barn. My second favorite improvement<br />
is the lights! It’s a small thing to notice,<br />
but they are outlined in pink. It’s a<br />
tasteful way to include school spirit.<br />
“I am actually most excited to see the<br />
new Bailey Room. I can’t wait for it to<br />
be done and to be able to spend time<br />
there. I think the coaches are trying<br />
to keep it a bit of a surprise for us, but<br />
I have heard about new offices, and a<br />
dedicated classroom space, which will<br />
be great!”<br />
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GIVING<br />
sbc.edu<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Fund is an<br />
Opportunity for Alumnae to<br />
Show Their Appreciation<br />
From students to alumnae, faculty<br />
to staff, the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> community is<br />
made up of people from a wide variety of<br />
backgrounds and affinities for the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Despite these differences, these donors and<br />
friends are united by one thing: their belief<br />
in the mission of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Each year, alumnae and friends come<br />
together to support the <strong>College</strong> through<br />
gifts to the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Fund. For <strong>2020</strong>-<br />
2021, the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Fund goal is $5<br />
million, with a stretch goal of $7.5 million<br />
to cover costs and lost revenue related to<br />
COVID-19.. Contributions to the <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> Fund support our students through<br />
scholarships; our faculty and our innovative<br />
academic programs; and the stewardship<br />
of our beautiful natural and built environment.<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> thrives because of the<br />
members of our community who choose to<br />
support the <strong>College</strong> through generous gifts.<br />
This year has been a particularly difficult<br />
one; the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has<br />
changed the lives of everyone on campus.<br />
But members of our community have come<br />
through in an amazing demonstration of<br />
support. Not only have we received gifts<br />
that enabled us to meet last year’s fundraising<br />
goals, but a host of emails, letters, social<br />
media posts and phone calls have shown<br />
us just how important <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> is to so<br />
many people.<br />
Read on to discover some amazing stories<br />
from some treasured members of our<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> family and why they continue<br />
to support the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
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GIVING<br />
Cheri Harris Lofland ’79<br />
Hello from London, my home for 26<br />
years now. I’m a Class of 1979 <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
alumna, which, unbelievably to me and my<br />
classmates, was more than 40 years ago!<br />
Thankfully, although much has progressed,<br />
what attracted me to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
remains unchanged, which is why I continue<br />
to support the school with an annual<br />
donation. I am so proud of the current<br />
students, leadership and administration—<br />
along with my fellow alumnae—who also<br />
value <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and continue to fight to<br />
protect everything it is and stands for.<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> provided exactly what I<br />
needed at the time: I was eager to go away<br />
to college but lacked confidence in myself<br />
and sought an environment that would<br />
provide me the opportunity and space to<br />
“find myself.” The idyllic campus attracted<br />
not only people like me—and others who<br />
chose it for different reasons—but also<br />
excellent professors who were passionate<br />
about their subjects and teaching.<br />
My time at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> was transformational.<br />
Not only did it provide an academic<br />
and social home that enabled me to thrive,<br />
but it also provided me the international<br />
experience I craved in the opportunity<br />
to study abroad. That opened my mind<br />
to the world and resulted in my choice,<br />
for the last 30 years, to live abroad. <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> provided an early step in what has<br />
become a fantastic journey.<br />
Wendy Weiler ’71 and Caroline<br />
Chappell Hazarian ’09<br />
My daughter, Caroline Chappell Hazarian<br />
’09, and I love <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and our<br />
family considers it sacred ground. The<br />
beauty of the <strong>College</strong> and the excellence of<br />
the education is unsurpassed.<br />
My parents were enthralled with <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>. They established The Jeanne and<br />
George Weiler Scholarship to help other<br />
young women to learn to be leaders.<br />
My niece, Victoria Chappell Harvey ’06,<br />
and two sisters, Patricia Weiler Thiess ’76<br />
and Pamela Weiler Colling ’79, attended<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. Caroline’s two godmothers,<br />
Ellen Weintraub ’71 and Pinky Walkley<br />
Heintz ’71, also attended. We have all<br />
made so many incredible <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
friends through the years; the bonds of the<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> sisterhood are so strong.<br />
I was so lucky to experience <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
not only once, but I did it again through<br />
the eyes of Caroline. We are hoping<br />
Caroline’s daughter, Julianne, will be third<br />
generation!<br />
We believe in giving back. We value the<br />
wonderful education we received at <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> and want to help ensure that it will<br />
continue to be there for other young women<br />
for generations to come.<br />
Katie Hearn ’85<br />
My parents were both volunteer fundraisers<br />
for Friends School of Baltimore<br />
when my older brothers and I attended<br />
Friends, and my mother was a professional<br />
fundraiser for Goucher <strong>College</strong> (her alma<br />
mater), as well as Johns Hopkins University,<br />
Towson University and the American<br />
Red Cross. Basically, I have known how<br />
important fundraising is to non-profit<br />
organizations for as long as I can remember.<br />
Giving of time, talent and treasure to<br />
institutions that matter to us is a fundamental<br />
part of my family’s ethos.<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> matters to me, and because<br />
I can give, I do. I have made a gift of some<br />
amount to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> almost every year<br />
since I graduated, and when the events of<br />
2015 happened, I realized that I had to<br />
step up my giving. <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> has needed<br />
us more than ever in the last five years,<br />
and I am fortunate to have been able to<br />
answer the call. It’s a check I never mind<br />
writing, because I know that the money is<br />
going to help young women have the same<br />
experience that I was able to have.<br />
I also understand how important it is<br />
to raise money, so I have been a volunteer<br />
fundraiser for <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> for years.<br />
Whether it’s for my class (Yay ’85!), for<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> LAX, for Friends of Riding or<br />
Friends of Athletics, for reunion, or for the<br />
capital campaign to build the Fitness and<br />
Athletics Center (FAC), I am willing to<br />
help if asked.<br />
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GIVING<br />
Making a gift to the<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Fund is<br />
easy to do.<br />
• Make a gift online at sbc.edu/give.<br />
Scan the QR code below.<br />
Sarah Reidy-Ferguson ’96<br />
I view my participation of gift giving<br />
to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> as a reflection of three<br />
components—past, present and future. I<br />
honor the past and, more specifically, the<br />
alumna who inspired my introduction to<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong>. I make my gift in her<br />
memory and in thanks for passing down<br />
her love for the <strong>College</strong> to me. For the<br />
present, as I recognize <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> needs<br />
my commitment to support the daily<br />
operations of the school as we continue<br />
to blaze an innovative path for women’s<br />
education. And for the future, as it is my<br />
wish for every young woman to have the<br />
opportunity to attend <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>.<br />
Kimberly Harden Fella ’00<br />
As a recipient of a substantial merit-based<br />
scholarship during my entire four<br />
years at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, it’s important to me<br />
to pay it forward and help make <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> a more affordable option for future<br />
generations of women. I truly loved my<br />
four years at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>! I cherish every<br />
opportunity I have to be back on campus,<br />
as well as the ties that bind all of us alums<br />
across the miles and through the years.<br />
I have made it a priority to donate every<br />
year since I graduated in May 2000, and,<br />
thankfully, my husband Chad, who loves<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> as much as I do, is completely<br />
on board with our financial support of<br />
the <strong>College</strong>. We can’t wait to be back on<br />
campus next spring for my delayed 20-year<br />
reunion and see all the changes that have<br />
taken place since 2015!<br />
• Use the enclosed pre-addressed<br />
envelope to send in a check.<br />
• For other types of gifts, please<br />
call the Office of Alumnae<br />
Relations and Development at<br />
434-381-6131.<br />
• Notify <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> if you have<br />
included the <strong>College</strong> in your<br />
estate plans.<br />
• Visit plannedgiving.sbc.edu to<br />
find out more about making a<br />
planned gift to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>.<br />
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inMEMORIAM<br />
As<br />
of Oct. 1, <strong>2020</strong><br />
sbc.edu<br />
1938<br />
Carolyn Staman Ogilvie<br />
March 23, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1939<br />
Sarah Belk Gambrell<br />
July 30, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Jane Holden Walker<br />
August 24, 2019<br />
1940<br />
Margaret Katterjohn McCollom<br />
April 1, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1942<br />
Nancy Parker Barnwell<br />
July 25, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Janet Quinn Eichacker<br />
July 23, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Florence Gillem Pressly<br />
September 17, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Gloria Sanderson Sartor<br />
September 15, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1945<br />
Patricia Carr Bowie<br />
April 3, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Wyline Chapman Sayler<br />
July 19, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1946<br />
Marguerite Emmert Baldwin<br />
July 1, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Patricia “Pat” Groesbeck Gordon<br />
April 11, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Jane Pickens Church<br />
November 6, 2015<br />
Anne Hill Edwards<br />
April 29, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1947<br />
Carol Blanton McCord<br />
May 31, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Evelyn “Evie” White Spearman<br />
August 16, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Patricia Hassler Terrell<br />
July 24, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1948<br />
Martha Davis Barnes<br />
October 4, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Mayde Ludington Henningsen<br />
July 12, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Gloria McElroy Pennell<br />
May 17, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1949<br />
Marilyn Hopkins Bamborough<br />
September 12, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Ruth Garrett Preucel<br />
July 31, <strong>2020</strong><br />
June Eager Finney<br />
May 1, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Nancy Barnes Coffin Defeyter<br />
March 30, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Elizabeth “Betsy” Brown Bayer<br />
April 15, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1950<br />
Joan “Jo” Gulick Grant<br />
July 8, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Evelyn Morris Gregory<br />
August 9, 1994<br />
Bettye Wright Schneider<br />
July 16, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Nancy Richards Smith<br />
September 19, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Jean Yanick Snyder<br />
June 4, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Cora Jane Morningstar Spiller<br />
May 8, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1951<br />
Ann Mountcastle Gamble<br />
April 7, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Rosalie “Pinkie” Barringer Wornham<br />
April 12, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Harriet Heiden Kirchhoff<br />
July 29, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Denis Barnes<br />
June 23, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Nancy Keen Butterworth Palmer<br />
August 24, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1952<br />
Linda Brackett<br />
October 25, 2018<br />
Katherine “Jane” Guthe Coffey<br />
April 11, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Mary Bailey Izard<br />
September 10, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Jane “Kitchie” Roseberry Tolleson<br />
July 22, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Alice Stansbury White<br />
September 1, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1953<br />
Anne Joyce Wyman<br />
March 12, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Ray Hessler<br />
May 31, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1954<br />
Leta Patton Badgett<br />
May 14, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Mary “Mimi” Hitchcock Davis<br />
June 28, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Mary Jane Roos Fenn<br />
July 31, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Harriet “Hatsy” Robinson Taylor<br />
July 5, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Jayne Berguido Abbott<br />
August 11, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1955<br />
Mary Reed Simpson Daugette<br />
March 31, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Diane Johnson DeCamp<br />
June 13, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Natalie Cavallo Wills<br />
June 5, 2019<br />
1957<br />
Anne McGrath Lederer<br />
July 9, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Joy Peebles Massie<br />
May 3, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Mary McCarrick Holahan<br />
June 17, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Marjorie Whitson Aude<br />
September 15, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Jane Fitzgerald Treherne-Thomas<br />
July 4, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1958<br />
Dorothy “Poogie” Wyatt Shields<br />
March 28, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Sarah “Sally” Byers Sugar<br />
June 25, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Langhorne “Lanny” Tuller Webster<br />
May 28, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1959<br />
Mary “Cookie” Cooke Carle<br />
January 4, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Cecile Martin Pearsall<br />
August 30, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Adora “Dody” Prevost Ragsdale<br />
June 19, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Barbara Kelly Tate<br />
June 30, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1960<br />
Charity Paul<br />
October 28, 2019<br />
1961<br />
Simone Aubry<br />
May 19, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Judith Atkins Wall<br />
May 28, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Carol Lessmann Margol<br />
June 3, 1994<br />
Cornelia “Dolly” Jordan<br />
March 29, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1963<br />
Joy Berguido Campbell<br />
2016<br />
1965<br />
Johanne Vinson Finney<br />
December 3, 2018<br />
1966<br />
Judy Wilson Grant<br />
June 15, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Mary Herlihy<br />
July 9, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Cordelia Harrison Ward<br />
July 19, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1969<br />
Adele Perry Hart<br />
May 4, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Mary Ann Kilpatrick Russell<br />
May 24, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1970<br />
Eleanora Marshall<br />
May 7, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1971<br />
Elizabeth “Liz” Wilson Mumford<br />
September 13, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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1973<br />
1976<br />
1988<br />
2002<br />
Judith “Judy” Buttrick Sargent<br />
June 5, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Debrarae Karnes<br />
June 22, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Suzanna Reed Townsend<br />
July 1, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Kimberly Martin Robson<br />
July 19, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1974<br />
Catherine “Kitty” O’Neal Owens<br />
June 26, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1991<br />
2011<br />
Eugenia “Jeannie” Manning Schmidley<br />
June 15, <strong>2020</strong><br />
1982<br />
Tiffany Avery-Willis Smith<br />
January 31, 2019<br />
Deborah “Debby” Willis<br />
August 22, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Helen Sockwell<br />
July 29, 2018<br />
Maura “Kathleen” Freemon<br />
July 6, <strong>2020</strong><br />
inMEMORIAM:<br />
Jane “Kitchie” Roesberry Ewald Tolleson ’52<br />
Former <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> board member Jane<br />
“Kitchie” Roesberry Ewald Tolleson ’52<br />
died at her home on July 22, <strong>2020</strong>. She<br />
was 90.<br />
Kitchie married John A. Ewald, Jr., in<br />
1954. John passed away in 1979 and in<br />
1981, his parents established the Ewald<br />
Scholars program with a permanent<br />
endowment. Through the years, Kitchie<br />
made additional investments in the<br />
fund. The goal of the program was to<br />
add inspiration to the <strong>College</strong>’s academic<br />
life by bringing scholars of international<br />
reputation to campus. In that regard, the<br />
program has been an unqualified success.<br />
The program got off to a fine start when<br />
it supported a visit from four of the world’s<br />
foremost primatologists: Jane Goodall,<br />
Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas and Francine<br />
Patterson. Through two full days of<br />
morning, afternoon and evening lectures,<br />
films, slide shows, a panel presentation,<br />
and question/answer sessions, they shared<br />
information about their studies in field<br />
and laboratory on chimpanzees, gorillas,<br />
and orangutans.<br />
Other important visitors made possible<br />
by the program include:<br />
• Isabel Allende, Chilean author of The<br />
House of the Spirits and City of the<br />
Beasts<br />
• Maureen Regan, daughter of the 40th<br />
president of the United States<br />
• Shirley Chisholm, the first black<br />
woman elected to Congress<br />
• Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and<br />
winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace<br />
Prize, among other awards<br />
• Wilma Mankiller, Principal Chief of<br />
the Cherokee Nation<br />
• Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning<br />
author of The Color Purple<br />
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian<br />
author of Americanah, which was<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s Common Read selection<br />
for 2018-2019<br />
• Liza Mundy, who wrote Code Girls:<br />
The Untold Story of American Women<br />
Code Brekers of World War II<br />
In addition to her support of the Ewald<br />
Scholars Program, Kitchie was incredibly<br />
generous to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> in other ways as<br />
well, providing support for the library and<br />
the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Fund. She received <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>’s Outstanding Alumna Award in<br />
1984.<br />
Kitchie’s daughter, Katie, graduated<br />
from <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> in 1979. Our thoughts<br />
are with Kitchie’s family.<br />
Did You Know?<br />
Jane Goodall was a visiting<br />
professor at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> from<br />
1977-1981.<br />
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CLASSnotes<br />
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1949<br />
Preston Hodges Hill<br />
3910 S Hillcrest Dr.<br />
Denver, Colo. 80237<br />
edhillj@earthlink.net<br />
Carolyn Cannady Evans has<br />
moved to an assisted living residence<br />
in Raleigh, NC, to be near two of her<br />
daughters who live there. Carolyn<br />
reports memory issues but sounded<br />
well, gets two meals a day and still<br />
has her small dog. Like many of us,<br />
and all who are in retirement homes,<br />
she is in lockdown and has no news<br />
of other classmates.<br />
My suitemate Katie Cox Reynolds<br />
and husband, Phil, are each 92.<br />
They live in a retirement home outside<br />
Hartford, CT. A daughter had<br />
planned to accompany them to visit<br />
me in CO in June as they have two<br />
grandkids in Boulder and Denver.<br />
Due to COVID, they have cancelled.<br />
Katie had a recent fall resulting in a<br />
compression fracture of a vertebrae<br />
for which she hopes to have minor<br />
surgery soon.<br />
Our class president Caroline<br />
Casey Brandt lives at Westminster<br />
Canterbury in Richmond and reports<br />
that she is in lockdown and<br />
cannot see other residents. Classmate<br />
Libby Trueheart Harris is there in<br />
the health unit. Caroline was reading<br />
the book by Anna Chao Pai ’57,<br />
“From Manchurian Princess to the<br />
American Dream,” and finding it fascinating.<br />
Anna said she loved <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>, and her four years there were<br />
among the happiest of her life. Caroline<br />
has two great-grandsons. Her<br />
son, Stephen McGhee, just retired<br />
as the associate minister at Caroline’s<br />
Episcopal church in Richmond, but<br />
he and his wife will remain in Richmond.<br />
Her daughter, Margaret, and<br />
wife also live in Richmond. Caroline<br />
sent me an interesting article from<br />
the Miniature Book Society news.<br />
Caroline has been a major collector<br />
of miniature books for many years<br />
and through that association met her<br />
late husband, Paul Brandt.<br />
Classmate Peggy Cromwell Taliaferro<br />
connected with me on Facebook.<br />
She sent me her new phone<br />
number, so I called her. She lives in<br />
a retirement home in the Baltimore<br />
area. She keeps up with Susan Waxter,<br />
daughter of our classmate Judy<br />
Baldwin Waxter. Susan is now retired<br />
and prior to COVID was doing<br />
a lot of traveling.<br />
I contacted my suitemate Peggy<br />
Lawrence Simmons whom we called<br />
Larry (her sister was also SBC). Larry<br />
resides in Midland, TX, where she<br />
was headmistress of an Episcopal<br />
day school for many years. Larry says<br />
she is suffering aging problems like<br />
deafness and failing eyesight but still<br />
manages to live in her own home and<br />
has a number of friends with whom<br />
she can socialize in normal times. She<br />
misses being able to deliver Meals On<br />
Wheels as she did prior to COVID.<br />
Her daughter Susie and husband and<br />
their two children all work in health<br />
care but to date remain healthy. Her<br />
daughter DeeDee writes mystery<br />
stories under the pen name Carole<br />
Lawrence and has a new book that is<br />
selling well on Amazon entitled Edinburgh<br />
Twilight. Larry recently lost<br />
her brother Rusty.<br />
Mary Fran Brown Ballard reports<br />
that Marilyn Hopkins Bamborough<br />
passed away this spring.<br />
Fortunately, I am doing quite well<br />
in my home of 58 years, have wonderful<br />
neighbors and an excellent<br />
driver. I gave up driving last Oct. My<br />
driver and his wife do my grocery<br />
shopping. I continue to cook for myself<br />
and am grateful to be in my home<br />
and able to walk well-masked in my<br />
neighborhood.<br />
1952<br />
Pat Layne Winks<br />
312 Arguello Blvd., Apt. 3<br />
San Francisco, CA 94118<br />
415-221-6779; (cell) 415-350-2994<br />
plwinks@earthlink.net<br />
Though the name of your class<br />
secretary appears at the top of these<br />
notes, credit should go to our intrepid<br />
class president. When the<br />
virus hit, Joanne Holbrook Patton<br />
took upon herself the task of trying<br />
to reach every single one of you. I’m<br />
sure that her personal communication<br />
was responsible for the gratifying<br />
increase in our class giving. Many,<br />
many thanks to Joanne, and to you<br />
all.<br />
There have been inevitable losses.<br />
Katherine Guthe Coffey (known<br />
to us in college as Jane, later called<br />
Tink) passed away in April. She was<br />
a real estate broker in San Francisco<br />
for many years. Tink and I met several<br />
times in our adopted city. She had<br />
retained her bright wit and beauty.<br />
Earlier in the year we lost Nancy<br />
Hinton Russell. I wish I could quote<br />
more of her obituary, which captured<br />
her vivid spirit. “She placed the highest<br />
value on strength of character and<br />
maintained exacting standards for<br />
every undertaking, whether it was<br />
laying a table for a family meal or rebuilding<br />
a life torn apart by the Vietnam<br />
War.” Also gone early this year<br />
was Katherine Babcock Mountcastle<br />
who lived a life of community<br />
service on the boards of many<br />
worthwhile foundations. Marianne<br />
Vorys Minister passed away in January<br />
<strong>2020</strong>. Director for many years of<br />
her own design firm, she was mother<br />
of four, grandmother of six. Louise<br />
Kelly Pumpelly also passed away in<br />
Jan. She was a tireless volunteer and<br />
competitor—in bridge, tennis and<br />
dartball. At 81, she participated in a<br />
half marathon and was fastest (and<br />
oldest) in her age bracket. In July, we<br />
lost Kitchie Roseberry Tolleson.<br />
Throughout her life she maintained a<br />
devoted commitment to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>.<br />
We all recall Kitchie’s energy, enthusiasm<br />
and warmth.<br />
Pat Beach Thompson and Sue<br />
Judd Silcox grieve the loss of their<br />
dear husbands of many years. Sue’s<br />
husband Jack died in Feb. The family—a<br />
large clan that includes multiple<br />
great-grandchildren—gathered<br />
together to mourn his loss. Pat lost<br />
her dear Calvin in May, so the family<br />
congregated in a socially distanced<br />
way at her neighborhood church.<br />
Our bodies are not always kind<br />
to us. Nancy Hamel Clark had hip<br />
surgery. Benita Phinizy Johnson<br />
sustained broken ribs and pelvis in<br />
an automobile accident. Upon her<br />
return from rehab she had to be<br />
quarantined at her retirement facility.<br />
I hope that by now Nancy Trask<br />
Wood has fully recovered from her<br />
broken hip. Others of us have suffered<br />
falls, with consequences that<br />
hinder easy movement.<br />
Time for happier news! Two<br />
classmates were lucky enough to enjoy<br />
IRL (in real life) celebrations of<br />
their 90th birthdays before the lockdown.<br />
Frances Street Smith’s family<br />
came from TX to her home in Chattanooga.<br />
Pauline Wells Bolton was<br />
surprised on her birthday by the arrival<br />
of her four children, who came<br />
from Houston, TX; MI; Vancouver<br />
(WA); and San Miguel Allende,<br />
Mexico.<br />
We are sheltering in a wide range<br />
of places. Many are in retirement<br />
communities where group activities<br />
have been curtailed. Some continue<br />
to enjoy wide open spaces. Helen<br />
Graves Stahmann is able to walk to<br />
her farm in Australia. Others who do<br />
not have to be concerned about social<br />
distancing include Sue Spayde<br />
Sparks, whose home has 60 acres.<br />
DeeDee Bell Lyon lives in a converted<br />
stable on a friend’s farm and walks<br />
daily with her two active dogs. (She<br />
has finally given up riding!) Since<br />
DeeDee’s home is near Charlottesville,<br />
she was able to get together<br />
regularly with Kitchie Roseberry<br />
Tolleson until the virus hit. Jane<br />
Russo Sheehan (another ex-rider)<br />
also relies on her dog to get her out<br />
for regular exercise. Nancy Morrow<br />
Lovell has stayed in her large country<br />
home, where she can enjoy the local<br />
animal population of raccoons, deer,<br />
bears and their offspring. We share<br />
Nancy’s concern for her daughter, a<br />
respiratory therapist at a tragically<br />
busy Seattle hospital.<br />
Our families give us loving support.<br />
At the outset of the pandemic,<br />
Betsy Wilder Cady was kidnapped<br />
from her MA retirement community<br />
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to her daughter’s home in Gainesville,<br />
FL, then a virus-free environment.<br />
Now she has returned to her<br />
safer home in MA. Trudy Kelly<br />
Morron lives with her daughter<br />
and husband in CO. Barbara Mc-<br />
Cullough Gilbert and her husband<br />
moved from their long-time home<br />
in OH to a retirement community<br />
in Decatur, GA, at the encouragement<br />
of her son there. Nancy Trask<br />
Wood stayed with her son’s family in<br />
NC while recuperating from a broken<br />
hip. Joanne Holbrook Patton’s<br />
son, Ben, and family left NYC when<br />
it became a virus hot spot and moved<br />
to the cottage on the Patton property<br />
near Joanne’s home before going on<br />
to upstate NY.<br />
Some of us remain committed to<br />
urban life. Joanne O’Malley Foster<br />
and Ginger Dreyfus Karren are still<br />
in NYC, and I am still in San Francisco.<br />
Most of us, wherever we live,<br />
are trying to get familiar with Zoom,<br />
FaceTime and other technological<br />
advances. One positive side effect of<br />
the virus is the motivation to reconnect.<br />
I’m sure that many of you have<br />
picked up that old-fashioned device,<br />
the telephone, to renew precious<br />
connections with friends you had<br />
lost touch with.<br />
I hope that by the time these<br />
notes appear in the magazine, many<br />
months from now, our lives will have<br />
brightened and the terrible virus will<br />
no longer threaten the world.<br />
1953<br />
Florence Pye Apy<br />
40 Riverside Ave., Apt. 6Y<br />
Red Bank, NJ 07701<br />
floapy@verizon.net<br />
What a time to write class<br />
notes—plenty of time to write,<br />
very little to write about. I have<br />
talked (via email) to Kay Amsden,<br />
Edie Norman Wombwell, Sug<br />
Cantey Patton and Dale Hutter<br />
Harris. All of us (including<br />
mates) are in continuing care<br />
communities, living in similar<br />
conditions during this pandemic—wearing<br />
masks, sometimes<br />
gloves, having meals dropped<br />
off at our apartments, watching<br />
television, etc. I have been blessed<br />
with a family, all of whom have<br />
Zoom. A daughter-in-law in CA<br />
had three graduation parties for<br />
three grandchildren who did not<br />
have traditional graduations, a<br />
couple of birthday parties, plus<br />
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day<br />
get-togethers. Guests ranged from<br />
HI to CT and NJ, with many<br />
from northern and southern CA.<br />
<strong>College</strong> reunions took a hit. This<br />
dreadful situation is probably<br />
affecting you and your families in<br />
similar fashions.<br />
Sug is still recovering from<br />
the bad fall she had in May.<br />
Despite visitation restrictions<br />
and quarantine rules she and Pat<br />
are fortunate to have a daughter<br />
nearby who is able to drop off<br />
groceries, etc. Other family members,<br />
including sons, grandchildren<br />
and great-grandchildren, live near<br />
enough to visit when visitation<br />
rules no longer exist.<br />
Unfortunately, during this time,<br />
two classmates have passed away.<br />
Anne Joyce Wyman died on<br />
March 12, <strong>2020</strong>. At SBC, Anne<br />
was chair of the Riding Council<br />
and a member of Paints ‘n’ Patches<br />
and the Classical Club. An avid<br />
athlete she played varsity field<br />
hockey and lacrosse. Following<br />
her marriage to Dr. Joseph C.<br />
Wyman, a metallurgist, in Sept.<br />
1966, they commuted between<br />
their NY apartment and their<br />
home on Quogue, Long Island.<br />
They had one daughter, Anneke,<br />
who graduated from Yale, cum<br />
laude. After Anneke’s marriage to<br />
Klaas de Boer the couple settled in<br />
Wimbledon, England where Anne<br />
and Joseph visited regularly. In<br />
NY, Anne was a faithful member<br />
of the board of directors of the<br />
privately funded Society for the<br />
Relief of Women and Children.<br />
Following Joseph’s early retirement,<br />
he and Anne travelled the<br />
world until a stroke side-lined her.<br />
Unfortunately, Joseph, her caretaker<br />
for many years, predeceased her.<br />
Surviving are her daughter, sonin-law<br />
and grandsons, Alexander<br />
and Nicholas.<br />
Liz Ray Herbert Hessler died<br />
on May 31, <strong>2020</strong>, after contracting<br />
COVID. Liz was born in<br />
Durham, NC, attended St. Catherine’s<br />
in Richmond and graduated<br />
from Kent Place School in Summit,<br />
NJ, where she excelled in field<br />
hockey and basketball. Her height<br />
of 5’12” (never 6 ft.) was undoubtedly<br />
an asset. She was known<br />
for her friendliness, independent<br />
spirit and sharp wit. At SBC, she<br />
majored in music theory. She left<br />
after her junior year to marry William<br />
Pinkney Herbert, Jr., whom<br />
she had met at a friend’s wedding.<br />
They moved to Charlotte where<br />
they raised four boys. Following<br />
Bill’s unexpected death in 1976,<br />
Liz entered the residential real<br />
estate business. She met Ormond<br />
Hessler, who was employed by the<br />
same company in the commercial<br />
real estate division. They married<br />
in 1978. Ormond died in 2011 at<br />
the age of 90. Liz was an active<br />
athlete participating in golf and<br />
tennis tournaments. She was<br />
involved in community activities<br />
as a longtime member of Christ<br />
Episcopal Church, a founding<br />
member of the Grandfather Golf<br />
and CC in Linville, and a member<br />
of the Junior League of Charlotte<br />
and the German Club. She also<br />
worked for U.S. House Rep. Alex<br />
McMillan as his local communications<br />
liaison. Liz is survived by her<br />
four sons and their families, one<br />
step-daughter and nine grandchildren.<br />
Our sympathy goes to both<br />
Anne’s and Liz’s families.<br />
Please, oh please, send me some<br />
happy news for the next issue.<br />
1954<br />
Bruce Watts Krucke<br />
201 West 9th St. N.-Unit 184<br />
Summerville, SC 29483<br />
bwkrucke@gmail.com<br />
Opening with some very sad<br />
news. Our wonderful class<br />
president, Mary Jane Roos Fenn,<br />
passed away very unexpectedly at<br />
the end of July. Unfortunately, her<br />
obituary has not been published<br />
yet, so I don’t have much to tell<br />
you about her very interesting<br />
life. I do know that while at SBC,<br />
Mary Jane was a drama major<br />
and directed our senior show.<br />
As an alumna she was always a<br />
wonderful participant in many<br />
SBC activities. She was very active<br />
in community life both when she<br />
and Dick lived in NY and after<br />
they retired to Williamsburg, VA.<br />
Mary Jane was predeceased by her<br />
husband and one of their twin<br />
daughters. She is survived by two<br />
daughters, Susan Fenn Bemus<br />
and Jennifer Fenn Doherty, and 6<br />
grandchildren.<br />
Here are three more obituaries<br />
of our classmates who were at<br />
SBC only a short time.<br />
We send our sympathies and<br />
condolences to the family of<br />
Leta Patton Badgett. She was<br />
born in Waco, TX, and attended<br />
Waco High School, graduating<br />
at 16. After a year at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>, Leta returned to TX,<br />
attended Baylor University and<br />
the University of Texas, where she<br />
joined Pi Beta Phi sorority. Leta<br />
married Charles Shepard Badgett<br />
III in April 1955. They had four<br />
children.<br />
Sadly, Leta lost her beloved<br />
husband at age 32 after his battle<br />
with cancer. Leta was active in the<br />
Junior League of Dallas and the<br />
PTAs of her children’s schools<br />
while raising four kids alone. She<br />
became an accomplished artist, inspired<br />
by her love of travel. Adventures<br />
took her to Europe, Central<br />
America, Mexico and Asia. After<br />
the death of her daughter, Anne,<br />
Leta returned to Dallas to raise<br />
her grandchildren. In recent years<br />
Leta resided at Presbyterian Village<br />
North. She is survived by her<br />
children Charles Shepard Badgett<br />
IV and Leta Badgett Harrell;<br />
her brother Dr. James Russell<br />
Patton, Jr.; six grandchildren, one<br />
great-grandchild and five stepgreat<br />
grandchildren.<br />
The second one is Harriet<br />
“Hatsy” Robinson Taylor, 87, a<br />
gardening author and columnist.<br />
She died July 5, <strong>2020</strong>, at Geer<br />
Village in North Canaan. Hatsy<br />
began writing about gardening<br />
in 1982 with the debut of her<br />
column, Hilltop Harvest, which<br />
was published for years in The<br />
Lakeville Journal, the Torrington<br />
Register and the Berkshire Eagle.<br />
She is also the author of two illustrated<br />
books, Weeds and Wisdom<br />
and Mother Nature’s Wit and<br />
Wisdom. Having worked as an<br />
accountant earlier, Hatsy served<br />
on the North Canaan finance<br />
committee for several years. Her<br />
civic-minded contribution was<br />
also running the annual Norfolk<br />
Library Book Sale for more than<br />
35 years. Hatsy volunteered with<br />
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ca, the Friendly Visitor program<br />
and a local mentoring initiative.<br />
She also sang with the Litchfield<br />
County Choral Union. Hatsy’s<br />
other passion was tennis where<br />
she won doubles championship<br />
matches at the Norfolk Country<br />
Club. Her head for numbers also<br />
led to success at bridge, a game she<br />
played with many lifelong friends.<br />
Hatsy graduated from Renbrook<br />
School in West Hartford, Miss<br />
Porter’s School in Farmington,<br />
CT, and the Hartford School<br />
of Music. In 1955, she married<br />
Henry Hammond Taylor of<br />
Fairfield, CT. In 1962 they got an<br />
abandoned farm in East Canaan,<br />
where they spent the next 43 years<br />
raising three daughters, along with<br />
sheep, chickens, llamas and cows.<br />
Hatsy and Henry also built a business<br />
designing and manufacturing<br />
hand-crafted lamps, clocks and<br />
desk accessories. Following her<br />
husband’s death in 2005, Hatsy<br />
continued to write about her life<br />
on the hill, adding a website and a<br />
weekly blog. She kept a small flock<br />
of sheep and continued to pursue<br />
her gardening, tennis and bridge.<br />
Hatsy epitomized the flinty<br />
Yankee pioneer, who hauled her<br />
own firewood, tended her sheep<br />
and also drove fast in a small red<br />
convertible. She is survived by<br />
three daughters, six grandchildren<br />
and two great-grandchildren.<br />
The third classmate we lost was<br />
Mimi Hitchcock Davis, born<br />
Mary Leffingwell Hitchcock.<br />
Mimi died on June 28 at 87. Wife<br />
of the late Ray E. Davis, Mimi<br />
grew up in Manhattan and Port<br />
Washington, NY. She enjoyed<br />
time spent with cousins, aunts<br />
and her grandmother at the Glen<br />
Springs Resort Hotel in Watkins<br />
Glen, NY. Mimi attended<br />
Port Washington High School,<br />
graduated from high school at<br />
the International <strong>College</strong> of the<br />
Sacred Heart in Tokyo in 1950<br />
and attended <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
She married Ray in 1956 on<br />
Long Island. After living briefly<br />
in Washington, DC, and CA,<br />
they moved to Glastonbury, CT,<br />
and spent nearly 60 years there.<br />
Mimi shared a love of horses<br />
with her daughters and husband.<br />
Mimi worked for fifteen years as a<br />
medical assistant at an OB/GYN<br />
clinic in CT. In her later years, she<br />
did volunteer work at her church.<br />
Mimi enjoyed the knitting group,<br />
helping in the kitchen, tending<br />
plants and working on behalf of<br />
the Shepherd’s home in Middletown.<br />
Mimi leaves behind her four<br />
children, and four grandchildren.<br />
Side note: Mimi was the first<br />
one of our classmates that I met. I<br />
went to high school in Yokohama<br />
while she was in Tokyo and I had<br />
to go to Tokyo to take the SATs.<br />
We were the only two females in<br />
the large group taking the tests<br />
and what a coincidence that <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> was the only college either<br />
one of us had applied to.<br />
Now a few brief notes from<br />
other classmates. Through Jerry<br />
Driesbach Ludeke I learned that<br />
Vickie Toof Johnson has her own<br />
small place with a yard for her<br />
dog. She says she uses a walker<br />
now, as I’m sure many do, and<br />
that she has a helper also. Vickie<br />
was trying to locate Bee Pinnell<br />
Pritchard. Bee was still living near<br />
Richmond at our reunion last year<br />
but talked about moving to Texas<br />
to be near her children. <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
doesn’t have an address for her<br />
either. So, if anyone knows where<br />
Bee is, please let us know.<br />
As for Jerry herself, she writes:<br />
“I’m enjoying the challenge of<br />
sheltering-in-place. I haven’t been<br />
in a shop since March 15 and am<br />
getting very creative with some not<br />
very exciting meals using supplies<br />
in my pantry. Timing worked out<br />
perfectly for me in passing on my<br />
job as the director of the Bakersfield<br />
<strong>College</strong> Archives. After 13<br />
years they finally assigned one of<br />
the librarians the job. We overlapped<br />
this past fall and I turned it<br />
all over to her when the pandemic<br />
began. Whew! I still work online<br />
as her advisor/assistant. Same<br />
thing with my church job as the<br />
financial secretary for over 20<br />
years. I told them I was not going<br />
to be back in church until the<br />
virus settles down and a vaccine is<br />
available. Our church services are<br />
still online now anyway. So, I got a<br />
replacement there. Footloose and<br />
fancy free! I live in a complex of<br />
12 private homes surrounding a<br />
big swimming pool and palm trees,<br />
so I am out for an early morning<br />
swim before the sun shines on the<br />
pool each day. I miss seeing my<br />
family, but life is good and will get<br />
better as this finally passes.”<br />
I chat with Shirley Poulson<br />
Broyles on Facebook and we<br />
also email some. She and Norris<br />
moved into their retirement condo<br />
in Atlanta in March after having<br />
been promised it would be ready<br />
the previous October. Just in time<br />
for virus isolation.<br />
Small world department. A<br />
friend of mine from high school<br />
in Japan, who lives in a retirement<br />
community in Vero Beach, FL,<br />
had a new partner for a trivia<br />
game there. It was Kirkland<br />
Tucker Clarkson ’53. She and I are<br />
now emailing and catching up on<br />
mutual friends.<br />
No news is good news from me.<br />
We are being well taken care of<br />
where we live—temps taken every<br />
day, meals delivered, doctors come<br />
to the house, if needed.<br />
Our class was only in fourth<br />
place for the 1950s classes in<br />
percentage of people giving to the<br />
<strong>College</strong> for the fiscal year with<br />
42.3%. In amount given we are<br />
third. We could do better.<br />
With our loss of Mary Jane, we<br />
need to get a new class president.<br />
Any volunteers? Any nominations?<br />
Please let me hear from you.<br />
1955<br />
Emily Hunter Slingluff<br />
1217 North Bay Shore Drive<br />
Virginia Beach, VA 23451-3714<br />
emilyslingluff@aol.com<br />
What a treat to have our 65th reunion<br />
on the internet! We connected<br />
on May 30 via Zoom with the help<br />
of our great class president Mitzi and<br />
also helpful Clélie from <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>!<br />
It took some time with many of us<br />
having trouble properly connecting,<br />
but at least some finally did it and<br />
we looked at each other! Also, each<br />
of us said a few words about what we<br />
are doing during this pandemic time<br />
and just in general. It was nice. The<br />
word that came to my mind when it<br />
was over was that it was dignified!<br />
Respectful! We were not all talking<br />
at the same time. Most of us just said<br />
a very few words about our own outlook<br />
on life and what we are doing.<br />
Almost no long talks about our families.<br />
Personally, I loved just seeing<br />
each one of the wonderful classmates<br />
and hearing each nice outlook on life.<br />
Those who took part were Phyllis<br />
Joyner, Elise Wachenfeld dePapp,<br />
Kay Roberts McHaney, Anne Williams<br />
Manchester, Gretchen Armstrong<br />
Redmond, Nancy Anderson<br />
Shepard, Ruth Campbell VanDerpoel,<br />
Pam Compton Ware, Anne<br />
Lyn Harrell Welsh, Camille Williams<br />
Yow, Jane Feltus Welch, Mitzi<br />
Streit Halla and Emily Hunter Slingluff.<br />
Sue Lawton Mobley, Newell<br />
Bryan Tozzer and Betty Byrne Gill<br />
Ware wanted to join but there were<br />
glitches. Mitzi is hoping we can have<br />
another Zoom meeting sometime.<br />
Following our Zoom reunion, I<br />
had two good phone conservations<br />
with classmates who had connected<br />
then. Camille Williams Yow had<br />
said that she is living in a condo on<br />
Peachtree Road in Atlanta, which I<br />
had mistakenly thought was a retirement<br />
place, but it is a 40-story building<br />
of condos! It is in the nice Buckhead<br />
area of Atlanta and near her old<br />
house. Camille is involved in many<br />
things including book clubs, the<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Atlanta Living Room<br />
Learning, bridge games and more.<br />
We talked about little things and the<br />
big things going on in this country.<br />
I also had a long follow-up talk<br />
with Kay Roberts McHaney, and<br />
we went deeply into the philosophy<br />
of important issues. Being involved<br />
with ownership and publishing of<br />
several newspapers in TX, she is<br />
especially interesting to talk with<br />
about newspapers and news. In general,<br />
it is a treat to keep up with her.<br />
Some months before the Zoom<br />
reunion, I heard from Joan Kells<br />
Cook. She wrote, “I haven’t been<br />
very good about keeping in touch,<br />
so since I am a shut-in with everyone<br />
else, you are hearing from me.<br />
These last few days I’ve been thinking<br />
about <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and all the<br />
good years there. I won’t be coming<br />
to reunion because of health issues.<br />
My husband of almost 64 years had<br />
cancer, got a clean bill of health last<br />
year then had an accident where he<br />
broke his hip. It cancelled our lives<br />
and now the virus. We’re doing well<br />
though with shopping and a son<br />
living nearby. We also Skype with<br />
our daughters in OR and CA. We<br />
are still in our almost 100-year-old<br />
house on a lovely lake south of Seattle.<br />
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special. Before the quarantine,<br />
we were still playing bridge and going<br />
to plays and operas. Please say<br />
hello to everyone.”<br />
Another treat was an email from<br />
Sue Lawton Mobley who wrote,<br />
“Every day has been so much like the<br />
one before and after it that I didn’t<br />
think I had anything worthwhile to<br />
report. I was in quarantine for about<br />
ten weeks at Canterbury Court until<br />
my daughter Anne came for me.<br />
Canterbury was wonderful caring<br />
for everyone and we’ve had no cases.<br />
But I am now at her house, enjoying<br />
being with her, my son in-law and<br />
one granddaughter. My older granddaughter<br />
has just moved into a condo<br />
in a wonderful complex and she<br />
is thrilled! No telling how long I’ll<br />
be here, probably several weeks. At<br />
this point, if I return to Canterbury,<br />
I would have to stay in my apartment<br />
for two weeks. Charlotte, my younger<br />
granddaughter, has a condition<br />
that makes her very susceptible to infections<br />
and viruses, so she and I are<br />
pretty much in the same situation;<br />
we are not going anywhere. There is<br />
a lot of COVID-19 in Atlanta, and<br />
Anne is being very cautious about<br />
going to the store, etc. I was so disappointed<br />
in not being able to join you<br />
all in the reunion! I was there for a<br />
minute but then all went dark and I<br />
couldn’t get back on. The mysteries<br />
of the internet! I am reading an interesting<br />
book, Elderhood. It seems<br />
that the words old and elder provoke<br />
different reactions in people, elder<br />
providing more respect! Take care<br />
and stay well.”<br />
Ginger Chamblin Greene and I<br />
had a nice phone visit discussing the<br />
pandemic and the situation at Westminster<br />
Canterbury in Charlottesville.<br />
There have been times of lockdown<br />
and times of quarantine there,<br />
as in most retirement places. She<br />
and Fred are in one of the separate<br />
cottages there and so are able to go<br />
outside a lot, which they enjoy. She<br />
was as upbeat as usual, and both she<br />
and Fred seem to be in good health,<br />
and she even mentioned him playing<br />
tennis since Boars Head tennis had<br />
reopened in July. We talked about<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, too!<br />
Fritz Merriman Naylor and<br />
I had a good talk and she sounded<br />
wonderful. Fritz and Ginger had<br />
roomed together at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> for<br />
several years. Fritz said she has trouble<br />
walking but no complaints about<br />
that even though she still lives in a<br />
large condo in Sagamore Hills, OH,<br />
and the condo is several stories, not<br />
just one floor. She said that overall,<br />
she feels good. Among other things,<br />
we talked about our kitty cats! Both<br />
of us have been dog lovers, so this is<br />
a sort of a new thing and fun. Fritz,<br />
whose husband died some years ago,<br />
says her two step-sons are so dear<br />
keeping in touch with her from TX<br />
and CA.<br />
Derrill Maybank Haygood and<br />
I keep up a good bit, and we had a<br />
recent talk about her family and<br />
also about the violence going on in<br />
Charleston then. Such sadness for<br />
her to have lost her wonderful husband<br />
Ben and, only a short time later,<br />
her very dear brother, too. Derrill did<br />
leave <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> after three years to<br />
marry Ben, although I had written in<br />
the last class notes that it was after<br />
two years. I also love thinking about<br />
her mother who we know was May<br />
Queen at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> some years<br />
ago!<br />
Jeanette Kennedy Hancock and<br />
I had a good phone talk and she<br />
sounded wonderful and appreciative<br />
of life. In July, some weeks after we<br />
talked, her husband died at age 89.<br />
His obituary was online with a really<br />
wonderful picture of him. They had<br />
been happily married for 62 years.<br />
He was evidently a very loved judge<br />
in Birmingham and very involved<br />
in many good endeavors. He and<br />
Jeanette had been living recently at<br />
Kirkwood by the River, a lovely retirement<br />
place run by the Presbyterian<br />
Church. They had two sons and a<br />
daughter, and all of them are married<br />
and have three children. It was good<br />
hearing about her grandchildren,<br />
too. Jeanette said that now our classmate<br />
and her friend in Birmingham<br />
for many years, Frances Bell Shepherd<br />
and her husband, are also living<br />
in Kirkwood by the River. Frances’s<br />
husband was responsible for finding<br />
that nice property for that retirement<br />
home some years ago. Jeanette also<br />
has kept up a bit with Mary Boyd<br />
Murray Trussell. She said she saw<br />
her some time ago when Mary Boyd<br />
was in Birmingham. Mary Boyd and<br />
her husband, George, have evidently<br />
been spending some time during this<br />
pandemic in Panama City, FL, where<br />
they have children.<br />
Several years ago in Sea Island, GA: Sue Lawton Mobley ’55, Newell Bryan<br />
Tozzer ’55, Honey Addington Passano ’55, Betty Byrne Gill Ware ’55, Emily<br />
Hunter Slingluff ’55 and Kathleen Peeples Ballou ’55<br />
Nella Gray Barkley is doing her<br />
usual work helping people find their<br />
careers and life paths. She says that<br />
recently she is doing this mostly online<br />
but also sometimes at a meeting<br />
room in Charleston. She says<br />
she finds herself particularly busy<br />
at this pandemic time because a lot<br />
of people are rethinking their lives.<br />
Her two granddaughters are both<br />
in graduate schools and living in the<br />
NY area: one is at the International<br />
Culinary Education Institute and<br />
one at the Pratt Institute studying<br />
Environmental Interior Design. Nella<br />
is happily living at her same house<br />
in Charleston and also sometimes<br />
goes to her cottage on nearby Edisto<br />
Island.<br />
Elise Wachenfeld dePapp is<br />
taking it easy at her condo in Pittsford,<br />
NY. She has a dog she loves, a<br />
Pomeranian. She sent me a picture<br />
and he is adorable! We talked about<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and a bit about riding<br />
where she excelled at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
and later, as she did in many things,<br />
including being a doctor. She told me<br />
one of her daughters is an associate<br />
vice president of Merck Pharmaceuticals<br />
and lives on Cape Cod, and<br />
her other daughter is a veterinarian<br />
and is planning to move to Portland,<br />
ME. Because Elise has trouble<br />
hearing, she has some special device<br />
that shows my words spoken on the<br />
phone on a screen for her to read.<br />
Anne Lyn Harrell Welsh is living<br />
in the same nice house in Sterling,<br />
VA, where she has been for<br />
about 20 years since her husband<br />
died. Her daughter Carol lives with<br />
her and at this time. Anne Lyn is<br />
worried about a health problem Carol<br />
has but hopes all will be alright.<br />
It has been present for some years.<br />
Anne Lyn enjoys her house and<br />
particularly the nice garden she has<br />
there and having her dear daughter<br />
with her.<br />
Emily Hunter Slingluff, me:<br />
I always feel strange writing about<br />
myself in these notes. I am happy<br />
for a wonderful life as I find that my<br />
smart classmates are, too. Putting<br />
together these class notes does take<br />
time and work to get it right, but it<br />
is a huge treat because of connecting<br />
with such dear old friends! Of<br />
course, meaning old as in many years<br />
of friendship! I am so enjoying my<br />
old wonderful house on Linkhorn<br />
Bay and also going often to the Atlantic<br />
Ocean and our cabana there at<br />
what was the old surf club. Writing<br />
and speaking about the importance<br />
of the job of parenting takes much of<br />
my time, and the appreciation from<br />
many parents keeps me wanting to<br />
do more to help. Recently I have<br />
started doing YouTube videos. I am<br />
missing my good bridge games. Also,<br />
I am missing seeing friends as are all<br />
of us during this worrisome pandemic<br />
time. My married son, a surgeon,<br />
is in Charlottesville with the<br />
University of Virginia and my married<br />
daughter lives 16 houses from<br />
me, and her two married daughters<br />
are full time mothers with precious<br />
children, too. I am thankful for them<br />
and for all of you, my classmates!<br />
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1956<br />
Mary Ann Hicklin Willingham<br />
P.O. Box 728<br />
Skyland, NC 28776-0728<br />
hicklinw@bellsouth.net<br />
Lee Chang Crozier sent the first<br />
response I received to my summer<br />
request for updating what you have<br />
been doing in recent months. Lee<br />
says she does not have much news<br />
but wants to say hi to classmates and<br />
stay connected. She says they are<br />
well and safe, staying in place. She is<br />
appreciating good books even more<br />
and Zoom gatherings.<br />
Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride<br />
writes that SBC is the perfect place to<br />
be returning to or entering this fall!<br />
Like so many, Karen and Richard are<br />
staying at home in Annandale, VA,<br />
where they are managing fairly well,<br />
although Richard has some mobility<br />
problems. Their adult children are all<br />
doing well. Son Steven lives nearby;<br />
son Kevin and wife Britt live on the<br />
west coast. Son Trevor and wife Sarah<br />
live in Manhattan and are doing<br />
their work online. Their two children,<br />
like so many, have mastered<br />
working and learning on computers.<br />
She is looking forward to seeing a lot<br />
of us at our 65th reunion next May!<br />
Joan Broman Wright is looking<br />
forward to hearing what clever<br />
things others have been doing in<br />
these times of isolation. She has<br />
found that Zoom church and garden<br />
club meetings have been an interesting<br />
experience. She continues to<br />
work in her garden and mostly stays<br />
ahead of the political mailings. Before<br />
the virus, she went to her nearby<br />
daughter’s frequently for dinner but<br />
now has retreated into her cocoon,<br />
with the virus escalation in FL. She<br />
hopes everyone is well and safe, is<br />
looking forward to reading everyone’s<br />
news and hopes to see you at<br />
our 65th in May.<br />
Rose Montgomery Johnston<br />
spent most of the summer here in<br />
our WNC mountains at her summer<br />
home on Lake Summit. Because<br />
of the pandemic, she took many<br />
walks around the lake, missed seeing<br />
her friends (including me) and dining<br />
out because “this virus goes on<br />
and on....” After arriving here from<br />
Memphis, she has done no traveling<br />
of late, but hopes early in 2021 to go<br />
to Patagonia with her daughter Bailey.<br />
Even though perhaps “it is time<br />
to move on,” she still has her psychotherapy<br />
practice, now seeing clients<br />
only by phone. She is proud to hear<br />
about SBC’s progress!<br />
Ann Stevens Allen sent a note<br />
saying her rental farm and carriage<br />
house apartment have kept her busy<br />
for the last year. She says she just sits<br />
in her rocking chair on her porch<br />
and thinks how lucky she has been.<br />
Betty Buxton Dietz writes that<br />
she and Burt are handling “this house<br />
arrest” caused by the coronavirus as<br />
well as they can, hoping it will be<br />
over while they can enjoy their volunteering<br />
again. She has spent time<br />
going through family papers, now<br />
being the matriarch of the Buxton<br />
family. Burt lost his twin sister on<br />
Ash Wednesday <strong>2020</strong> and is now<br />
patriarch of the Dietz family. She<br />
spends time knitting scarves for the<br />
Seaman’s Institute to put in Christmas<br />
bags as well as baby hats for<br />
preemies at three area hospitals.<br />
Frances Shannonhouse Clardy<br />
moved (4 years ago) from her home<br />
of 51 years to a condo, then earlier<br />
this year to “the old folks’ home,” all<br />
in Charlotte. She is loving her new<br />
home where many of her long-term<br />
friends also live. However, this virus<br />
has changed her way of living. She<br />
regrets that the virus has changed<br />
college for her grandchildren: one<br />
living room graduation, no masters<br />
at St. Andrews and no normal senior<br />
year for another on his beloved crew<br />
team. However, she is optimistic that<br />
we will overcome this current chaos.<br />
Bette Forbes Rayburn describes<br />
the current environment as “this<br />
weird world we live in.” She has<br />
moved permanently to the farm at<br />
314 Malatchie Rd., Fort Valley, GA<br />
31030. She says her children are<br />
a grand foursome inside and out.<br />
They forbid her driving on US 85,<br />
so instead she does a lot of walking,<br />
working and fishing. No one can<br />
come now because of the virus. She<br />
sends greetings to all: “Take care,<br />
wear masks and stay in touch!”<br />
Marty Fields Fite is hanging out<br />
at home, walking 45 minutes every<br />
morning. Finding it creative to cook,<br />
she and her sister take turns cooking<br />
dinner, followed by a couple of episodes<br />
of Downton Abbey.<br />
Kay Smith Schafer writes from<br />
Palo Alto, CA, where she has lived<br />
since 1957. Now 1-1/2 years since<br />
her husband, Bob, died, she has<br />
moved into an 11-story charming<br />
retirement home in downtown Palo<br />
Alto. She noted that Frances Kirven<br />
Morse ’68, who wrote the book, The<br />
Little <strong>College</strong> That Could, is a friend<br />
and resident at Kay’s retirement<br />
home. Kay says she does not go out<br />
much because of the virus.<br />
Jean Dowdy von Schilling writes<br />
that their FL island home is so different<br />
from the VA farm where they<br />
lived for years, yet quite beautiful and<br />
a great destination for family gatherings.<br />
She had recently talked to Kitty<br />
Harrison who is well, happy and as<br />
charming as ever! One of her granddaughters,<br />
who lives in NY, plans to<br />
enter her first year of college at UVA<br />
this fall. Jean and Dutch are ecstatic<br />
that their grandchild is returning to<br />
her VA roots!<br />
Mary Koonz Gynn writes from<br />
IN that she is staying busy and active<br />
in order to handle this virus situation.<br />
Her activities include mowing<br />
grass, taking care of her father,<br />
hoeing and pulling weeds in the corn<br />
patch, playing golf with friends and<br />
riding her bike.<br />
Macie Clay Nichols wishes she<br />
could add something really interesting<br />
to her last notes, but says she<br />
would have to make it up. Due to<br />
the virus they had to cancel a trip to<br />
France. They wear masks and miss a<br />
lot of life because of social distancing.<br />
No church, club or dinners out,<br />
but lots of phone visits which are not<br />
the same. She has cleaned out dusty<br />
corners and keeps the food chain<br />
fresh and regular. Gardening is her<br />
therapy, except for the poison ivy and<br />
chiggers. She enjoys nearby grandchildren<br />
and her husband, Robert,<br />
stays healthy on dialysis. She still<br />
does a bit of real estate.<br />
Jane Slack Sigloh is happy to be<br />
at Westminster Canterbury in Charlottesville<br />
during this pandemic, noting<br />
that conversations are restricted<br />
to being across driveways! However,<br />
they occasionally slip away to go fishing!<br />
She says in spite of the virus, life<br />
is good, and bids us all to stay safe!<br />
As for me, this eternal era has<br />
certainly changed my way of living!<br />
Fortunately, my house is on 35<br />
acres and has plenty of clean air. I<br />
am very blessed with many interests<br />
and much to do, definitely exceeding<br />
my energy levels. As I write this, six<br />
months passed without seeing any of<br />
my family, but at the end of June and<br />
July I did see all three of my daughters.<br />
I am cheering for a soon-to-be<br />
vaccine so our class can gather at<br />
SBC next May! If SBC reserves Elston<br />
Inn for the older classes, we will<br />
be in great shape with an elevator<br />
and shuttle service all over campus.<br />
So, I am hoping to see many of you<br />
in May!<br />
1958<br />
Eleanor St. Clair Thorp<br />
3 Stoneleigh #6D<br />
Bronxville, N.Y. 10708<br />
schatzethorp@gmail.com<br />
It seems like only a few days ago<br />
that I sent in our class news for the<br />
spring alumnae magazine, but now<br />
it is time for our fall <strong>2020</strong> news, so<br />
thanks to you all who sent me a note,<br />
and I hope our other classmates will<br />
do the same next issue. Sadly, I must<br />
begin with the news of the passing of<br />
two of our classmates.<br />
Claire Cannon Christopher and<br />
Jane Oxner Waring sent this letter:<br />
Some of you may already know that<br />
our dear classmate Lanny Tuttle<br />
Webster died of a heart attack on<br />
May 28 at her home in Greenville,<br />
SC. She was a natural leader and<br />
presided over many of the causes<br />
she valued. We will never forget her<br />
kindness, her smile and her great<br />
spirit! She remained committed to<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> all through the years.<br />
Please join us in making a gift to the<br />
greenhouse at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> in memory<br />
of Lanny.<br />
Sally Byers Sugar died peacefully<br />
in her home in Columbus, OH, on<br />
June 25, after a long and courageous<br />
battle with pancreatic cancer. She is<br />
survived by her husband, Jack, four<br />
children and several grandchildren.<br />
More information can be obtained<br />
from the college alumnae office.<br />
Cornelia Long Matson and<br />
her husband, Dick, have given a<br />
$500,000 donation to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
to support viticulture and provide a<br />
path for the future. We all owe Cornelia<br />
and Dick a huge vote of thanks!<br />
It is a very wonderful and welcome<br />
gift to the growth of our college campus.<br />
Betsy Alden Robinson’s news<br />
came last winter, just after our deadline,<br />
so I promised her I would save<br />
her notes for this issue. She keeps<br />
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busy, singing in a cabaret, going to<br />
a Shakespeare class and keeping in<br />
touch with her far flung family.<br />
Mary Lane Bryan Sullivan<br />
writes that she and her husband<br />
John celebrated his 95th birthday!<br />
They are pretty much at home but<br />
enjoy Zoom times with family and<br />
friends. Grandson, Jack Jurgovan,<br />
will enter his second year at the University<br />
of Georgia this fall.<br />
Beedy Tatlow Ritchie and her<br />
husband are still enjoying a quiet life<br />
in Palm Desert, CA, dropping plans<br />
for their annual summer trip to<br />
Michigan given the current state of<br />
travel. She looks forward to hearing<br />
from her classmates.<br />
Betty Rae Sivalls Davis says that<br />
she and husband, Paul, have been<br />
enjoying reading and eating. Her<br />
question is, when this weird time is<br />
over, what do we do: Go to Weight<br />
Watchers or go to AA??? LOVE<br />
that question.<br />
Ethel Ogden Burwell spent the<br />
winter months in Lexington, VA,<br />
near her daughter Ethel ’82 as she<br />
has for the last few years. She stayed<br />
there until June, due to safety from<br />
COVID, but is back in MI now. Her<br />
grandson and his wife brought her<br />
twin great-grandson twins for a long<br />
weekend which was fun. She keeps<br />
in touch with Beedy Tatlow Ritchie<br />
when she comes to MI, as well as<br />
with Betsy Alden Robinson who is<br />
still singing professionally in Santa<br />
Fe, NM.<br />
Tibby Moore Gardner is currently<br />
in Richmond and very concerned<br />
about the whole issue of<br />
monuments on Monument Avenue,<br />
as are most of her friends and neighbors.<br />
She and Bill spend time going<br />
back and forth to Virginia Beach.<br />
Mary Taylor Swing and her husband<br />
Bill are sheltering in place in<br />
Burlingame, CA, but keeping busy.<br />
When she wrote, Bill was very busy<br />
working on the 20th anniversary<br />
of the United Religions Initiative<br />
(which he founded when Bishop of<br />
CA), celebrated this summer on June<br />
25. Bill is also working with George<br />
Schultz and Mikhall Gorbachev<br />
(among other dignitaries) on an<br />
event to recognize the 75th anniversary<br />
of the Hiroshima bombing on<br />
Aug. 6. Obviously busy lives!<br />
Lynn Prior Harrington wrote<br />
from Skidway Island, GA, earlier<br />
this summer to say not much news,<br />
except disappointment that her trip<br />
to the Amazon in August was canceled.<br />
She does see Celia Dunn ’61<br />
from time to time.<br />
Jane Shipman Kuntz and her<br />
husband are still in Powell, OH,<br />
and writes that she has had extensive<br />
back surgeries for the last five<br />
years, with eight screws in her spine!<br />
This has slowed down her gardening<br />
work, but she is still active at St.<br />
John’s Episcopal Church. She reports<br />
on her three daughters, all of<br />
whom are doing very well. Martha<br />
and Don building a retirement home<br />
in Ponte Vedra, FL. Lee has been on<br />
TV with tales of interesting crimes<br />
her DA’s office has prosecuted, and<br />
Anne was recognized by her state<br />
professional association as the top<br />
communications director for long<br />
term care facilities in Ohio.<br />
Eleanor St. Clair Thorp (that’s<br />
me) and her husband, Peter, still<br />
spend their winters in Bronxville,<br />
NY, and their summers in Dennis,<br />
MA, on the Cape. This year they<br />
spent March and April on Hutchinson<br />
Island, FL—a month longer<br />
than usual due to the virus conditions<br />
in NY. All three girls and all<br />
seven grandchildren are doing well.<br />
Teddy Donohue is off to UVA and<br />
Eliza Migdal off to the University of<br />
Chicago this fall. Henry Rentz will<br />
go back to the Naval Academy for<br />
his second year.<br />
1960<br />
Lura Coleman Wampler<br />
1406 Thomas Rd.<br />
Wayne, PA 19087-1318<br />
lcwampler@comcast.net<br />
Greetings to all! I have the pleasure<br />
of being able to mention many<br />
classmates’ names mainly due to a<br />
Zoom reunion that took place on<br />
July 31. Thanks to Lucy Martin Gianino<br />
for setting it up and hosting<br />
the session. It was truly wonderful<br />
to see so many familiar faces and<br />
to hear each participant tell a little<br />
about herself. Some have lost their<br />
husbands and many have moved to<br />
retirement communities. Here is a<br />
mention of those who were present<br />
in no particular order.<br />
Kathy Knox Ennis is living with<br />
her dog in a Sunrise in Atlanta, GA.<br />
Nancy Beekman Carringer moved<br />
to Annandale, NJ, after her husband<br />
died. Carolyn King Ratcliffe and<br />
her husband, Clyde, are moving to<br />
an apartment next to Patti Powell<br />
Pusey at Westminster Canterbury<br />
in Richmond where Anita Perrin<br />
Towell also lives. Frank and Jane<br />
Tatman Walker split their time<br />
between Indianapolis, IN, and<br />
Sarasota, FL, and Sue Styer Cahill<br />
is living in Reading, PA, and is limber<br />
enough to play lots of golf and<br />
to go west for skiing each winter.<br />
In Bethesda, MD, Barbara Beam<br />
Denison is now painting after having<br />
given up her framing business of<br />
45 years. Gail Lloyd lives in NYC<br />
where she saw this timely Longfellow<br />
quote in a store window, “After<br />
all, if it is raining, the best things<br />
one can do is to let it rain.” Barbara<br />
Murphy Hale continues to live on<br />
her farm in the eastern shore of MD<br />
after her husband’s death a year ago<br />
and specifically mentioned the planting<br />
of a 9-acre wildflower meadow<br />
to attract pollinators. Linda Sims-<br />
Grady Newmark lives on Lake Keowee,<br />
SC, and plans to attend the<br />
October graduation of her granddaughter<br />
at SBC. Gail Hayman<br />
Wilson moved from upstate NY to<br />
a condo in Ashburn, VA, and Susan<br />
Hendricks Slayman lives in a retirement<br />
community in Williamsburg,<br />
VA. Ann Crowell Lemmon is doing<br />
okay after having lost her beloved<br />
Phyz in December and still lives in<br />
the Atlanta, GA, area. Grace Suttle<br />
retired from her medical practice in<br />
2006 and is now painting in Charlottesville,<br />
VA. Rhett Ball Thagard<br />
continues to live in Birmingham, AL,<br />
having lost her husband 7 years ago<br />
and Jean Morris Stevenson splits<br />
her time between NC and a ranch in<br />
TX. Anne Duquid, our St. Andrews<br />
student for one year, tuned in from<br />
the Isle of Wight, off the southern<br />
coast of England and told us she is<br />
a fiction editor for an American publishing<br />
company. Margot McKee is<br />
still involved with selling real estate<br />
in Newtown Square, PA, and in CT.<br />
Melinda Moore <strong>Sweet</strong> is no longer<br />
practicing law and reports that she<br />
talks weekly with Katie Mendelson<br />
McDonald. It was great to see<br />
Dinny Muldaur Dozier who spends<br />
time in Los Angeles where she made<br />
a movie last year and also on Martha’s<br />
Vineyard, MA, where she started<br />
an animal shelter. Gwen Speel<br />
Kaplan has become a Richmond girl<br />
having lived there for 13 years, where<br />
she hosts an annual luncheon for a<br />
dozen classmates when Anne Rienecke<br />
Clarke visits. Our notable author<br />
Elizabeth Meade Howard has<br />
lived in Charlottesville, VA, for over<br />
50 years and reports that her husband<br />
has started a day-school there.<br />
From New Orleans, Harriet Hurley<br />
Nelson told us about her husband<br />
dying of the COVID virus in a retirement<br />
community that was on<br />
lock-down, so she couldn’t be with<br />
him. Norma Patterson Mills has<br />
lived in the same house for 54 years<br />
in Chattanooga, TN, where her<br />
three sons also live. Our first-year<br />
class president, Winnie Ward, continues<br />
to live in NH and Nina Wilkerson<br />
Bugg and her husband are<br />
moving into a new retirement community<br />
in Atlanta called Peachtree<br />
Hills Place. They will still hold on to<br />
their full-time house in Highlands,<br />
NC, and will have to learn how they<br />
will handle when and where they<br />
live. In Sterling, VA, Carolyn Gough<br />
Harding is studying Chinese on<br />
Zoom. Becky Towill McNair lives<br />
in Charlotte, NC, and is proud that<br />
one of her daughters is a <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
graduate. Peggy Cook Lunt continues<br />
to live in Santa Fe, NM, where<br />
she married David Lunt after her<br />
husband Seth died, and Ginger<br />
Newman Blanchard spends a lot of<br />
time playing golf and proudly related<br />
that her niece is in charge of the<br />
riding program at SBC. In Marblehead,<br />
MA, Betsy Buechner Morris<br />
retired from banking and with her<br />
husband has sailed long distances<br />
(as in from Newfoundland to South<br />
America). She has become a writer,<br />
first for boating magazines, and recently<br />
has published three books and<br />
many short stories. In Columbia,<br />
SC, Nancy Corson Gibbs is playing<br />
tennis and traveling worldwide, her<br />
latest trip was to Sicily just before<br />
things shut down, and Isabel Ware<br />
Burch continues to live in Williamsburg<br />
where she remains active with<br />
Bruton Parish Church.<br />
The following classmates were<br />
not on the Zoom session but did<br />
send me some news. Carol Barnard<br />
Ottenberg is living the new normal<br />
life in Seattle, WA, and writes<br />
among other things that we should<br />
not whine unless we take out the “h.”<br />
Patti Powell Pusey is looking forward<br />
to a crab fest with all 19 family<br />
members (she intended to be on the<br />
Zoom reunion but did not receive<br />
the link). Jane Riddle Lancaster is<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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currently traveling to a mountain<br />
home in Linville, NC, to escape the<br />
heat in TX. Mary Ellen Dohs Acey<br />
and her husband just moved from a<br />
cottage into an apartment in a retirement<br />
community in Henrico, VA,<br />
in order to be closer to a new activities<br />
center. Jane Ellis Covington,<br />
the keeper of our class scrapbooks<br />
and other memorabilia, sends love<br />
to all. In NYC, Lucy Martin Gianino<br />
is chair of Parents in Action,<br />
a support group for independent<br />
school students and also is involved<br />
with a Sloan Kettering organization<br />
called Visible Ink, which encourages<br />
cancer patients to write about their<br />
experiences which are then acted out<br />
on stage by professionals. Fred and I<br />
have been living in our pre-Revolutionary<br />
farmhouse in Wayne, PA, for<br />
almost 50 years where I continue to<br />
board horses and tend to my many<br />
gardens and various animals. I look<br />
forward to the time when our seven<br />
grandchildren can visit again, and I<br />
can actually hug them!<br />
Put May, 28-30, 2021 on your<br />
calendars for our postponed 60th<br />
reunion at the <strong>College</strong>. In the meantime,<br />
stay healthy and safe! Love to<br />
all! Lura Coleman Wampler<br />
1961<br />
Julie O’Neil Arnheim<br />
41 Pitt St.<br />
Charleston, SC 29401<br />
jarnheim@princeton.edu<br />
Bess Hutchins Sharland<br />
1724 Aberdeen Circle<br />
Crofton, MD 21114<br />
thefroghall@verizon.net<br />
Thanks to Nancy Coppedge<br />
Lynn, the first to respond to my request<br />
for ’61 news, I, Julie O’Neil<br />
Arnheim, spent many delightful<br />
hours in my recliner enthralled by<br />
five seasons of the French language<br />
TV series, A French Village (Un Village<br />
Français), on Hulu even though<br />
it is over 10 years old. Since my usual<br />
spring/summer vacation in France<br />
was obviated by the pandemic, this<br />
fictional fast-moving tale of the Vichy<br />
occupation kept me connected,<br />
and because I caught 80% of the<br />
French dialog with my hearing aids<br />
in and none without them, I know<br />
how much I need hearing aids. My<br />
octogenarian’s ego was flattered by<br />
my language acumen. Other planned<br />
trips were cancelled, including one<br />
to Savannah to celebrate Marion<br />
“Mimi” Lucas Fleming and Peter’s<br />
60th wedding anniversary, which<br />
was first postponed from their June<br />
9 date until Labor Day and then<br />
again because no FL judge was permitted<br />
to leave the state. Although<br />
Mimi may be officially retired, she<br />
still works a full schedule. At this<br />
rate, Celia Williams Dunn, Lou<br />
Chapman Hoffman, Mimi’s bridesmaids<br />
and I may have to wait until<br />
their 61st anniversary to celebrate<br />
with them in GA where they were<br />
married.<br />
Also a proud proponent of hearing<br />
aids, Susan Cone Scott is able<br />
to adjust hers via phone and is quite<br />
taken with such modern technology.<br />
Holed up in her condo in Austin,<br />
TX, even though she survived a clinically<br />
diagnosed case of COVID in<br />
March at age 81, Susan is being very<br />
cautious, as immunity is not guaranteed.<br />
She was ill for about three<br />
weeks but was never hospitalized<br />
and suffers no apparent lasting effects.<br />
She is making good use of her<br />
found time by going through boxes<br />
to trash or donate in addition to<br />
watching PBS and reading. Don’t we<br />
all have boxes of memorabilia lurking<br />
around? She sends her wish that<br />
we all stay safe during this unusual<br />
dark time.<br />
Faith Bullis Mace, our youngest,<br />
whose 80th birthday comes along<br />
when most of us are pushing our<br />
next digit, had to cancel yet another<br />
cruise with her extended family. Last<br />
year it was due to her own illnesses;<br />
needless to say, COVID was the<br />
culprit this year. Margaret Wadman<br />
Cafasso had rented a house<br />
near Tanglewood for the summer<br />
for years, but she postponed that at<br />
least until the fall as she cannot drive<br />
from Delray with pooch Bisous in<br />
tow without stopping overnight<br />
along the way, and it seemed imprudent<br />
to stay in a motel. She reports<br />
that she has done puzzles of many<br />
kinds but would prefer additional<br />
social contact. Margaret Gwathmey<br />
is spending the summer in her San<br />
Francisco home rather than enjoying<br />
the fresh air of the Chesapeake<br />
as she has done forever and ever.<br />
Others of us have thwarted travel<br />
plans but have found other interests.<br />
Bess Hutchins Sharland is leading<br />
her book club discussion on David<br />
Blight’s biography, Frederick Douglass.<br />
I, Julie, took up clay pot gardening<br />
in my driveway; the organic blue<br />
corn was a bust, but the eggplant was<br />
successful.<br />
In June, Suzanne Nash Ruffin<br />
moved from her restored historic<br />
family home, where she had lived for<br />
29 years, to a new condo just nine<br />
blocks away located on the Cape<br />
Fear River. Having recently celebrated<br />
birthday #81, her son, Laurence,<br />
suggested phoning her rather than<br />
emailing. Her new address is 240<br />
N. Water St., #1154, Wilmington,<br />
NC 28401. Her phone is (910) 763-<br />
7367. If you want to hear Suzanne’s<br />
adorable accent, give her a call. I’ll bet<br />
it’s the same!<br />
In October 2019, Diane Stevens,<br />
a Seattleite for almost 20 years, spent<br />
time with Jane Garst Lewis and<br />
her family at their vacation home in<br />
Portugal. She and Jane have kept in<br />
touch throughout the years. Diane<br />
worked for the Lewis’s at their language<br />
schools in Finland and Japan<br />
and reports that the time spent, especially<br />
in Japan, was “perhaps the<br />
highlight of my life.” Diane discovered<br />
the Seattle Chamber Music Society<br />
shortly after moving to Seattle<br />
in 2001, and has been a long-time<br />
board member.<br />
Jeanne Bounds Hamilton and<br />
Ross, her husband of 56 years, have<br />
spent <strong>2020</strong> since March in their<br />
home in Easton, MD, rather than in<br />
the apartment in NYC. The whole<br />
family did get together for July 4<br />
however, and all are doing well.<br />
Simone Aubry ’61 at Machu<br />
Picchu in 2001<br />
Jeanne sent a photo of the family<br />
celebrating her 80th birthday taken<br />
in Carl Schurz Park in NYC. Jeanne,<br />
an only child and mathematics major,<br />
noted, “It is amazing how two<br />
people can create such a large family.”<br />
The Hamiltons have four children:<br />
Ross Jr. has twins who just graduated<br />
from Duke; Will has 2 boys;<br />
Chris has a boy and 2 girls; and Blair<br />
has 2 boys and a girl. And, of course,<br />
Jeanne does not look 80!<br />
Our indefatigable Bee Newman<br />
Thayer had to postpone revision<br />
surgery on her left knee replacement<br />
scheduled for April 6. As elective<br />
surgeries were being postponed everywhere,<br />
hers was reset to July 6.<br />
Her right knee replacement had a revision<br />
in 2019 and then rehab, so she<br />
had been living at Kendal, a CCRC,<br />
in Hanover, NH, since Sept. 2019.<br />
As usual, Bee cheerfully underplays<br />
Jeanne Bounds Hamilton ’61 celebrates her 80th birthday with family in<br />
Carl Shurz Park in NYC<br />
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any ailment. Her phone calls, her<br />
emails and her words in support of<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> never cease; and, largely<br />
due to her efforts, our class went over<br />
the 30% participation mark.<br />
Thanks go to Bee and to Mary<br />
Cosby Rinehart, our fund agents,<br />
who went all out to secure the continuation<br />
of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s innovative<br />
new programs. In times of<br />
such uncertainty, our alumnae came<br />
through. We girls/ladies/women<br />
are pretty impressive! Bee’s revision<br />
went off on schedule and she is again<br />
rehabbing and doing well. She will<br />
be fit for reunion next year, she says.<br />
Penny Stanton Meyer still hopes to<br />
see Bee in Hanover once all settles<br />
down. For now, she reports all is well<br />
on Maryland’s Eastern shore, “the<br />
land of pleasant living.”<br />
Maria Garnett Hood and Bob<br />
are at Camp Greenbrier in WV for<br />
an unusual summer camp season.<br />
She calls it a sort of campground<br />
with meal service and activities.<br />
Sanitation and distancing rules are<br />
de rigueur. Maria misses the regular<br />
camp session for young boys that she<br />
loves, but this version allows families<br />
to enjoy some outdoor fun during a<br />
most unusual summer.<br />
Judith Atkins Wall attended<br />
most Class of ’61 reunions over the<br />
years but graduated magna cum<br />
laude in English literature from<br />
Boston University in 1962, having<br />
married in 1959. Judith was a strong<br />
supporter of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and will be<br />
missed by her many friends of ’61.<br />
She passed away in May after a long<br />
illness.<br />
Another beautiful and steadfast<br />
donor classmate, Simone Aubry,<br />
died in MA. From the condolence I<br />
wrote on her Boston Globe obituary,<br />
I received a note from her lifelong<br />
friend, Caren Rosenthal, who had<br />
heard many stories of Simone’s years<br />
at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and her friendships<br />
there, e.g. a European tour with<br />
Ginger Lutz Elwell and a Lindblad<br />
National Geographic tour of Machu<br />
Picchu in 2001 with Patti Anderson<br />
Warren. We saw Simone last at a<br />
reunion, swimming and taking lots<br />
of photos, which she later shared<br />
with us, at Bee’s family farm outside<br />
Amherst. Her obituary reads,<br />
Simone’s passion for life is reflected<br />
in her wide range of interests which<br />
included skydiving, scuba diving,<br />
photography, art history, jewelry<br />
making, archeology, astronomy, aerospace<br />
and environmental issues. In<br />
2019, in celebration of Simone’s 80th<br />
birthday, The Simone Aubry Center<br />
of Excellence for Children (aubry.<br />
excellence@gmail.com) was formed<br />
in Washington, DC, to share some<br />
of her lifelong interests of the natural<br />
world with inner city children and<br />
their families. The future work of<br />
that foundation might possibly mesh<br />
with some of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s ecological<br />
endeavors and become a lasting link<br />
between Simone and SBC. Fingers<br />
crossed.<br />
Our classmate on the ground,<br />
Judy Greer Schulz, taught piano<br />
on FaceTime in the spring semester<br />
<strong>2020</strong>, and it worked remarkably well.<br />
Her three students thought so too<br />
and have signed up for the fall; all<br />
will remain flexible as to what mode<br />
the instruction will take.<br />
I, Julie, am very excited about<br />
the curriculum’s emphasis on agriculture—apiculture<br />
and viticulture.<br />
Optimizing for humanity’s basic<br />
needs through engineering and employing<br />
the raw material willed to<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> by the Williams family—all<br />
that wonderful acreage!<br />
We could not have predicted this<br />
60 years ago. Don’t forget our 60th<br />
reunion in 2021. We will see those<br />
vineyards for ourselves!<br />
The Class of 1961 remembers<br />
these classmates who have passed<br />
away in <strong>2020</strong>: Judith Atkins Wall,<br />
May 28 in Pawleys Island, SC; Simone<br />
Aubry, May 19 in Sudbury,<br />
MA; Cornelia “Dolly” Howard<br />
Jordan Kyle, March 29 in New Orleans;<br />
Carol Ann Lessman Margol,<br />
June 3 in Miami, FL; Virginia “Sister”<br />
McCall Engelhardt, Jan. 6 in<br />
Montgomery, AL; Glen Moncrieff<br />
Heede, July 2 in Rye, NY; Adora<br />
Prevost Ragsdale, June 19 in Raleigh,<br />
NC.<br />
1962<br />
Parry Ellice Adam<br />
33 Pleasant Run Rd.<br />
Flemington, NJ 08822<br />
peaba@comcast.net<br />
From Patsey Carney Reed:<br />
“Aside from praying for a vaccine,<br />
I’ve discovered it is easier to talk on<br />
Zoom than exercise or do yoga. I<br />
can’t seem to watch and do it all at<br />
the same time. Watching wins! I’ve<br />
had a total role reversal with my<br />
three grown children, one of whom<br />
calls almost every day with the same<br />
message: ‘Mo-o-om are you staying<br />
home?’ I’ve also discovered that there<br />
are no moderate political opinions<br />
among my friends. Isn’t this the<br />
strangest of all times? Love to all,<br />
Patsey”<br />
Winnie Swoyer Phyfe writes:<br />
“I’m still kicking. Can’t believe 80 is<br />
around the corner. Jim and I have<br />
nine grandchildren ranging from<br />
five-15 (six girls and 3 boys). The<br />
virus has made it hard to see them<br />
which is quite sad. Grandmothers<br />
will be the ones to find a vaccine, I’m<br />
sure. We have lived in S. Dartmouth,<br />
MA, since Jim retired about 10 years<br />
ago. We lived in Hong Kong for almost<br />
8 years and then bought a house<br />
in New Zealand. Our sailboat was in<br />
NZ until Jim and others brought it<br />
back five or so years ago. We sold the<br />
NZ house and moved permanently<br />
to S. Dartmouth. Fantasy...that<br />
kids would all move to NZ. I wish<br />
we had been able to keep the house,<br />
especially now. It is the most beautiful<br />
country and the greatest people.<br />
Sigh. We sold the boat and have been<br />
land bound. Hard for Jim but not so<br />
much for me. While in Hong Kong,<br />
I travelled extensively throughout<br />
Asia and India. I laughed that I had<br />
been to Bhutan but not to Italy. I<br />
loved all the travel and am glad I<br />
was able to take advantage of living<br />
in Asia. Since being home permanently,<br />
I have been involved with the<br />
Garden Club of Buzzards Bay, the<br />
summer chapel here and the Lloyd<br />
Center for the Environment which<br />
is a non-profit organization devoted<br />
to educating children and maintains<br />
the sea and bird life in the area. I do<br />
the NY Times crossword, go to the<br />
opera when possible and read lots of<br />
books. These days, I’m afraid I watch<br />
a lot of British television on my iPad.<br />
Luckily I don’t mind staying home.”<br />
And finally, I hope you all have<br />
been following the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> success<br />
saga from several sources! We<br />
should be very proud and grateful<br />
for the current leadership which has<br />
not only saved our alma mater, but<br />
elevated it to new exemplary heights.<br />
Strong women stand solid and secure.<br />
Stay tuned!<br />
1963<br />
Allie Stemmons Simon<br />
3701 Guadalajara Ct.<br />
Irving, Texas 75062<br />
asimontc@outlook.com<br />
Greetings to the class of 1963!<br />
This will probably be the strangest<br />
set of class notes in our history as<br />
our world copes with the coronavirus<br />
pandemic. I asked “What are<br />
you doing?” and the answers came<br />
back much alike: Not a lot—cooking,<br />
reading, gardening. Maybe Lucy<br />
Otis Anderson said it best: “I’ve been<br />
pretty good at doing nothing but this<br />
new normal has taken my skill level<br />
in the doing nothing department up,<br />
way up!” Lucy, our class president,<br />
sent a cheery email to all our classmates<br />
in the early days of the virus<br />
and enjoyed hearing back from many<br />
of you. She has also recently had a<br />
conversation with McNair Currie<br />
Maxwell who has moved from CA<br />
back home to Burlington, NC.<br />
Keitt Matheson Wood reports<br />
that she and Frank are “staying well<br />
and staying home with lots of walking,<br />
reading and occasionally having<br />
a few friends over on our deck, socially<br />
distanced, of course. It’s definitely<br />
life in the slow lane.” Nancy<br />
Dixon Brown says “All is well here<br />
(in Atlanta). I have been reading,<br />
doing puzzles and knitting. I do<br />
get out to the store and I have been<br />
walking early before it gets too hot.”<br />
Nice to hear from Anne Wrightson<br />
Efird who taught herself to make<br />
Chrismons and has made over fifty!<br />
“Between that and doing a thorough<br />
house cleaning I have managed, but<br />
I don’t like it!” Margaret Millender<br />
Holmes finds her life has changed<br />
little, the result of living a simple<br />
Vermont life. Her flower beds have<br />
never been so well kept! Her family<br />
is all well except for one grandson<br />
who moved to IA, and he has recovered.<br />
Ginger Cates Mitchell reports<br />
that although she and Mitch were<br />
exposed to the virus, thanks to a<br />
granddaughter temporarily living<br />
with them, they both tested negative<br />
and were never ill. They’ve used<br />
their down time to clean out, tend<br />
gardens, make bread, make Zoom<br />
connections with classmates, read<br />
good books, watch some dark TV<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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sbc.edu<br />
and dream of a normal life. Laura<br />
Lee Brown is spending lots of time<br />
at home with her garden and farm<br />
demands. She has had to close a hotel<br />
and two restaurants because of<br />
COVID, one had just opened in a<br />
barn on one of their farms, very sad.<br />
From Sue Jones Cansler:<br />
“Like everyone else we’re muddling<br />
through this unprecedented time—<br />
thankfully so far the virus hasn’t<br />
struck anyone in our family or group<br />
of friends. I’m thankful that I like<br />
to read and still enjoy cooking since<br />
those have become major activities.<br />
And thank heavens for Zoom! Living<br />
on an island we fared well in the<br />
spring as we had perfect weather, and<br />
it’s so easy to get outside. Getting hot<br />
here now, so Chuck and I are headed<br />
to the NC mountains in Aug., looking<br />
forward to cooler weather and a<br />
change of scenery.” Lucy Boyd Lemmon<br />
Edmunds says “I have been<br />
connecting with my modern European<br />
history major by reading Churchill:<br />
A Walk with Destiny, a recent<br />
biography of 900 pages. Thanks to<br />
Professors Masur and Muncy!” And,<br />
another book recommendation from<br />
Prue Gay Stuhr who has also been<br />
filling the pandemic time with reading.<br />
“A book that really touched me<br />
was The Last Negroes at Harvard.<br />
Eighteen men entered Harvard in<br />
1959 and graduated in 1963 as African<br />
Americans. It was intriguing<br />
to read since we were classmates at<br />
SBC during the same years,” she says.<br />
Some news from before the<br />
pandemic—Katharine Blackford<br />
Collins writes, “I was lucky to get<br />
in two back-to-back trips in Feb.<br />
before the lockdown. First, a week of<br />
cross-country skiing in Yellowstone<br />
with my younger son and his family.<br />
Then, a flight from Jackson, WY,<br />
to Jackson, MS, for a week-long civil<br />
rights tour with The Nation magazine<br />
along with my younger brother.<br />
I’ve been in a two-year study group<br />
moving from slavery through emancipation,<br />
reconstruction, redemption,<br />
etc., so the tour was especially<br />
meaningful as we met with pioneers<br />
of the civil rights struggle.” Katharine<br />
returned to Seattle in March, and<br />
when the schools closed down, her<br />
cottage became the Spanish language<br />
learning center for her two Seattle<br />
grandsons.<br />
And this news goes back over a<br />
year, but Betsy Parker McColl did<br />
not want to tell us of her troubles<br />
while they were still going on. “I had<br />
the shock of being diagnosed with<br />
breast cancer in June of 2019. Fortunately,<br />
it was discovered early in a<br />
routine mammogram (keep having<br />
them, everyone!) and was stage one.<br />
The lumpectomy was successful<br />
and there was no lymph node involvement,<br />
thank God. I will have to<br />
admit the chemotherapy was brutal<br />
but that is all behind me now, and<br />
I am blessed to be feeling like myself<br />
again. I know that many of our<br />
classmates have dealt with various<br />
forms of cancer, and mine was minor<br />
comparatively speaking, but there is<br />
nothing like the relief of recovering,<br />
to which all survivors can testify. I<br />
am especially grateful that my treatments<br />
ended before the pandemic<br />
hit. I can’t imagine dealing with cancer<br />
on top of the stress of COVID<br />
lurking around every corner.”<br />
Valerie Elbrick Hanlon had<br />
quite an adventure thanks to<br />
COVID! “I was in France when the<br />
pandemic hit, as I am each winter,<br />
and was nervous about boarding<br />
my flight home March 14 when no<br />
one seemed to be taking things very<br />
seriously. So, I fled Paris in a hurry<br />
to the medieval village of Castelnau<br />
in southwest France where I have<br />
friends and rented a lovely house<br />
where I planned to spend a month or<br />
six weeks. As we know, things turned<br />
out differently and I stayed for 3-1/2<br />
months. When my Air France flight<br />
and all non-stop flights to Washington,<br />
Boston and Philadelphia<br />
were cancelled, I flew Delta to JFK<br />
on July 9 on an almost empty plane<br />
and walked into an empty airport.<br />
I’m now reunited with family who<br />
fled Brooklyn in mid-March for our<br />
summer place near Cooperstown,<br />
NY. It is supremely wonderful to be<br />
home at last!” And a few of us are<br />
changing locations permanently.<br />
Jean Meyer Aloe writes that Ed’s<br />
health is slowly deteriorating and<br />
that they are moving to Doylestown,<br />
PA, where their younger daughter<br />
and two grandchildren live. They<br />
have found an 1829 renovated house<br />
there and Jean says “thank goodness<br />
it’s older than I am!” Chris Devol<br />
Wardlow and Gary have been hunkering<br />
down in CO. They sold their<br />
house in Vero Beach in January and<br />
are building in an area just south<br />
of Savannah, GA, but are not sure<br />
when they will feel safe enough to<br />
travel there. Their daughter and sonin-law<br />
have moved from Seattle to<br />
Denver and live very close to them.<br />
Their son and his family live in Bend,<br />
OR. Jean Yardley Amos has found<br />
the last five months tough but is<br />
looking forward to moving to a Presbyterian<br />
Village nearby in December.<br />
She has a grandson in college and<br />
two granddaughters in high school.<br />
Heinz and I (Allie Stemmons<br />
Simon) have been weathering the<br />
storm in TX and are now hoping to<br />
spend some time at our Snowmass<br />
Village, CO, home and get out of<br />
the heat. Our major project has been<br />
closing Heinz’s office and setting up<br />
a place of his own in what was once<br />
our third bedroom. This is going to<br />
mean a lot of togetherness! Literally<br />
every response I received for these<br />
notes included concern for each other,<br />
best wishes and hoping all are well<br />
and safe. Jane Goodridge summed it<br />
up: “Wish everyone the best! We’ll<br />
make it through this!” I concur. Love,<br />
Allie.<br />
1964<br />
Virginia “Ginny” deBuys<br />
7312 Saint Georges Way<br />
University Park, FL 34201<br />
gdebuys@gmail.com<br />
The term Insider Report is sometimes<br />
used in news articles. Yes, we<br />
have come to this— your view of<br />
your life is from the inside of your<br />
house while dreaming of travel and<br />
reminiscing over past adventures. I’ll<br />
wager the box of pictures is still waiting<br />
for you to organize but you have<br />
straightened every nook and cranny<br />
in your house twice over. I received<br />
a few newsy notes but most of you<br />
were happy to just be marked present<br />
(alive!). A few of you we can keep<br />
up with on Facebook and enjoy your<br />
thoughtful take on current events or<br />
photos (Susan Dwelle Baxter, MC<br />
Elmore Harrell, Elizabeth Matheson<br />
and others). VM, Hedi, MC<br />
and I have enjoyed touching base<br />
with many of you in recent months<br />
including: Marsh Metcalf Seymour,<br />
Helen Dunn, Anne Day Hermann,<br />
Dona Van Arsdale Jones, Judy<br />
Dunn Spangenberg, Leezee Scott<br />
Porter, Vera Le Craw Carvaillo,<br />
Mollie Johnson Nelson, Josephine<br />
England Redd, Lee Houston Carroll,<br />
Carrie Peyton Walker and<br />
Nancy Gillies—just to name a few.<br />
Please know that it is always good to<br />
hear from you even if it is a brief note<br />
or phone call.<br />
VM del Greco Galgano: “When<br />
do I cross the line by having too<br />
many streaming services? I watch<br />
people dying in wonderful mysteries<br />
from all over the world, but when<br />
does it get harmful to me? Anyone?<br />
I am coping with the crisis and know<br />
that we are very lucky.”<br />
Hedi Haug White: “In this<br />
strange year, we successfully moved<br />
to a new apartment here in NYC,<br />
which included downsizing of 40+<br />
years of accumulation (very freeing)<br />
and are glad the move was behind us<br />
when the world shut down. Gratefully,<br />
we are all okay and managing<br />
fairly well. I’m inspired by <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
so steadfastly staying the course<br />
and by the amazing support of the<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> family.”<br />
Rosamond Sample Brown:<br />
“I am at my Dallas house reading,<br />
watching Netflix series and trying<br />
to escape this angel of pestilence<br />
that is plaguing our world. I spent a<br />
marvelous month in Cambodia and<br />
Vietnam in Jan. and returned to the<br />
U.S. just before the entry borders<br />
were closed. I have canceled two<br />
more overseas trips plus going to my<br />
San Diego townhouse (neighborhood<br />
packed with bars and restaurants)<br />
this year, so it looks like I will<br />
experience my first Dallas summer<br />
in 15 years. Ugh. Whenever I begin<br />
to whine, however, I remind myself<br />
of all the people who have lost their<br />
jobs, their businesses and possibly<br />
their home.”<br />
Grace Mary Garry Oates: “I got<br />
really sick in Feb. and just as I was<br />
beginning to recover, the pandemic<br />
arrived in full force, locking us all inside.<br />
I’m pretty sure I had COVID<br />
(had all the symptoms). Whatever it<br />
was, it left me exhausted and feeling<br />
about 150. I have at last regained my<br />
energy and feel, well, younger than<br />
78. Everything else is on hold— so<br />
no trips to TX or New Orleans or<br />
my annual trek to Rome. I spend<br />
lots of time on my wonderful screen<br />
porch reading, remembering stifling<br />
summer afternoons of my childhood<br />
when there seemed to be all<br />
the time in the world just to sit and<br />
read. There are worse ways to spend<br />
a summer!”<br />
Dona Van Arsdale: “You’re<br />
right! My calendar has been blank<br />
because I have been diligently staying<br />
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home. My MD county, next to DC,<br />
has stricter rules than the rest of the<br />
state. Like most others, my emailing,<br />
texting, phoning, cleaning, reading<br />
and Netflix watching have increased<br />
tenfold!”<br />
Nelie Clark Tucker: “I have<br />
been social distancing like everyone!<br />
But for the last three weeks, I have<br />
hugged our children and their families—even<br />
went to VT with five of<br />
six kids and their seven children and<br />
four husbands! Husband, Dave, is<br />
working in his downstairs office, and<br />
I keep busy gardening, reading, praying<br />
and phone visiting. We drove to<br />
Richmond last weekend to visit a<br />
nephew; it was great to be in VA.”<br />
Libby Kopper Schollaert: “I am<br />
enjoying babysitting new grandson,<br />
Jack, and managed a trip to RI in<br />
June.”<br />
Jo Ann Soderquist Kramer:<br />
( JoAnn is our other reported coronavirus<br />
case. She had it early in Feb.<br />
after a trip to board meetings at Tusculum<br />
University, her mother’s alma<br />
mater.) “I traveled via air in March<br />
to VA for a week, returning home<br />
just as VT was closing down. VM<br />
and I attended Marcia Thom Kaley’s<br />
doctoral dissertation defense at<br />
the University of Lynchburg on the<br />
17th. Marcia knocked it out of the<br />
park! Stopped by SBC, spent time<br />
with Carol Fowler and Spice and<br />
Meredith Woo. The campus looked<br />
terrific. After a late start to summer,<br />
it is now way too hot here in VT;<br />
climate change effects are very noticeable<br />
over my 26 years living here.<br />
I am happy to be where the coronavirus<br />
situation has been handled<br />
extremely well. I walk five to eight<br />
miles every day no matter the weather,<br />
mow my own grass and tend to<br />
flower and vegetable gardens. I have<br />
a farm stand with free offerings of<br />
lettuce, beans, cucumbers, tomatoes<br />
and peppers. I play golf and do miss<br />
travel.”<br />
Ginny deBuys: “Jerry and I are at<br />
home pretending we are still newlyweds.<br />
We had a Tauck trip planned<br />
to the southwest which was cancelled.<br />
My volunteer work as an employment<br />
counselor with a women’s<br />
group here continues via Zoom, as<br />
do my board meetings with another<br />
group. It is all too isolating, and FL<br />
and U.S. leadership does not give me<br />
hope for immediate change.”<br />
Ginny, as secretary: “We send a<br />
hug and sympathies to Nancy Banfield<br />
Feher and Sarah Strother<br />
King who both lost their husbands<br />
earlier this year. You all send socially<br />
distant hugs to your fellow classmates<br />
and a number of you expressed<br />
appreciation of President Woo’s<br />
leadership and the good news on<br />
enrollment, fundraising and student<br />
action to face the virus. Getting back<br />
to campus to see the golden meadow<br />
of wildflowers is on my bucket list,<br />
but most of all I yearn to see all of<br />
you! Stay well and write often.”<br />
1965<br />
Sally McCrady Hubbard<br />
47 Parsons Green Circle<br />
Sewanee, TN 37375<br />
931-598-5338<br />
cell: 931-636-7320<br />
sally@hubbard.net<br />
First, we celebrate our class giving!—41.6%<br />
participation and total<br />
gifts of $182,119. Our fund agent<br />
Mary K. McDonald is proud that so<br />
many of you stepped up, some very<br />
significantly, and helped our <strong>College</strong><br />
build sustainability. Those who<br />
did not contribute yet are invited to<br />
do so, as we all anticipate our 55th<br />
reunion redo in May 2021. Now to<br />
this unique COVID news.<br />
Melinda Musgrove Chapman<br />
moved into an independent living<br />
residence in Feb. At first, there were<br />
many activities and new friends to<br />
be made—and then COVID—and<br />
all were required to wear masks, stay<br />
6-ft. apart and ride alone in the elevator.<br />
She is grateful to be in a safe, if<br />
boring, place with no infections yet.<br />
Melinda Zooms lots of meetings—<br />
sales meetings at her office, a Bible<br />
study and a prayer group. Children<br />
and grandchildren are all well, but<br />
one lost his job and one graduated<br />
without a ceremony.<br />
Before the pandemic, Mary Ellen<br />
Freese Cota was pulling out boxes<br />
of letters and photos and sorting<br />
things stored since she moved to<br />
Querétaro 18 years ago. Doing daily<br />
yoga, studying French and hoping<br />
to return to France. Since March,<br />
anxiety and being unable to see her<br />
family have been troubling. But son,<br />
Memo, is still with her, and daughter,<br />
Vicky, and her family have recently<br />
visited and all are well.<br />
Luckily, Alice Foster Ficken<br />
downsized three years ago and is<br />
in a good place to quarantine. She<br />
walks with neighbors close to home,<br />
and they visit on porches and patios.<br />
Alice had a knee replacement in Feb.<br />
and continues socially distanced water<br />
aerobics for rehab. Reading, Netflix<br />
and strawberry ice cream help<br />
the days pass. She misses seeing her<br />
children and their families, but they<br />
are in touch.<br />
Johanne Vinson Finney died<br />
Dec. 3, 2018. Her name will be listed<br />
in the next issue of the alumnae magazine<br />
and will be read at the alumnae<br />
memorial service during the next<br />
reunion.<br />
Mary K. Peterson Grum says<br />
the virus is rampant in TX but she<br />
has been able to travel to KY to see<br />
her broodmares and foals, all doing<br />
well. The oldest foal will be in the<br />
Keeneland auction this fall, so she<br />
plans to enjoy another trip to Lexington.<br />
Babette Fraser Hale and her 99-<br />
year old husband, Leon Hale, have<br />
been self-isolating at their country<br />
place since Feb. Although anxiety<br />
is inescapable, they’ve been grateful<br />
that their volunteer and business<br />
boards have readily accepted Zoom<br />
meetings. She has started her first<br />
vegetable garden in waist-high boxes.<br />
Babette’s first collection of short<br />
stories, “A Wall of Bright Dead<br />
Feathers,” is due to be published next<br />
spring. Her husband’s retirement<br />
journal may also be published to coincide<br />
with his 100th birthday. She<br />
really misses her grandchildren, but<br />
there are green growing things in the<br />
country, and there is FaceTime.<br />
Bunny Sutton Healy and husband,<br />
Jay, are lucky duckies, living in<br />
western MA and NH where there<br />
is little COVID. They are missing<br />
the kids and grandkids, some in MA<br />
and some in CO, and no one is flying.<br />
Bunny sees friends on their decks, is<br />
enjoying cooking and missing eating<br />
out. Great progress on to-do lists!<br />
And Jay is busier than ever in his<br />
lumber business.<br />
Betsy Benoit Hoover and her<br />
85-year-old husband are hibernating,<br />
gardening and enjoying FaceTime<br />
with daughters and granddaughters.<br />
The week before George Floyd’s<br />
death, her church began a Social<br />
Justice and Racial Reconciliation<br />
Task Force, a program developed<br />
by the National Episcopal Church<br />
called Sacred Ground. Her group<br />
of 30 people now meets by Zoom to<br />
look at race relations in our country<br />
since its inception and at visible and<br />
invisible prejudices. Walking, hiking,<br />
gardening and attending Zoom<br />
meetings with the Denver Master<br />
Gardeners, her political precinct,<br />
several book clubs and other activities<br />
fill her days.<br />
Nancy MacMeekin is accustomed<br />
to living alone in a wooded,<br />
semi-rural area. She is reading and<br />
being slothful and watching news<br />
too frequently. Nancy made a couple<br />
of face masks after not sewing for<br />
years, but the machine jammed and<br />
she bought others. As the quarantine<br />
started, she wondered if we were living<br />
in the plots of old science fiction<br />
stories. Then the electricity failed,<br />
and she wondered if it would come<br />
back on, which it did. An international<br />
trip with Vicky Thoma Barrette<br />
had to be delayed to 2021, or<br />
when? Nancy has a group of friends<br />
who hike, bike, kayak and enjoy<br />
nature with social distancing and<br />
masks ready when needed. Zoom<br />
keeps her in touch with Vicky, her<br />
sister, and some church activities. It’s<br />
a good time to catch up on outdoor<br />
home repairs and help small local<br />
businesses stay alive.<br />
Bonnie Chapman McClure says<br />
she and her husband were unable to<br />
buy masks or sanitizer for ages so really<br />
locked down, knitting and Netflix.<br />
At first, people could only walk<br />
a half mile alone, no walking with<br />
friends. Eventually they could walk a<br />
mile from their property for exercise<br />
but had to show a document to the<br />
police if they were stopped. They’ve<br />
seen people and dogs they never<br />
knew existed near their tiny village.<br />
People are good about masking up<br />
for the supermarket, and smaller<br />
places only allow one or two people<br />
in at a time. Customers continue to<br />
queue outside; what will it be like<br />
in winter? Bonnie finally was able to<br />
get to the stables—horses wrote the<br />
book on social distancing. Even the<br />
pony club kids have been reasonable.<br />
Laura Haskell Phinizy continues<br />
to care for her husband with<br />
part-time help, which is hard to<br />
schedule. Daughter, Laura, brought<br />
her twins to Laura’s home to finish<br />
the school year on Zoom while their<br />
mother taught school on Zoom till<br />
mid-June. Granddaughter, Sarah<br />
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Frances, rode horseback near Edgefield,<br />
SC. The extended family was<br />
unable to take their annual Kanuga<br />
vacation, a three-generation tradition.<br />
Laura and Stewart are celebrating<br />
the 51st anniversary of moving to<br />
their home in Augusta!<br />
Mibs Sebring Raney cheers<br />
recent newspaper articles about<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s continuing success and<br />
innovations and President Woo’s<br />
remarkable accomplishments. She<br />
and Bev are enjoying the slower<br />
pace—reading, gardening, walking<br />
their 11-month-old Cockapoo puppy<br />
and cooking. They are missing the<br />
Brevard Music Center’s fine concerts.<br />
Foreigners with out-of-state licenses<br />
are fleeing to the mountains, causing<br />
traffic and not wearing masks. Visitors<br />
may bring COVID but they<br />
also are spending money in their little<br />
town that benefits from overnight<br />
camping. Since manufacturing left in<br />
the 80s and 90s, tourism is the only<br />
moneymaker for the regional economy.<br />
Carol Reifsnyder Rhoads says<br />
that since the 55th reunion was not<br />
to be, she and Katy Weinrich Van<br />
Geel, Susan Strong McDonald and<br />
Anne English Wardwell are seeing<br />
each other and catching up by<br />
Zoom. She and her husband walk in<br />
the park; she and her partners play<br />
bridge online. Their church services<br />
are available via Facebook. On a visit<br />
to Blowing Rock, NC, they saw<br />
as many tourists as ever; restaurant<br />
staff were wearing masks and seated<br />
them far from others. Carol does see<br />
her daughter and family when they<br />
visit the NC mountains; her son<br />
from AR also has visited.<br />
Saralyn McAfee Smith has sheltered<br />
at home for five months. Her<br />
daughter, Laura Smith Tawater, was<br />
selected by the Kansas Republican<br />
Party to be a delegate to the Republican<br />
National Convention. Laura also<br />
organized and is president of a new<br />
political club, the Wild West Republican<br />
Women of Dodge City, KS.<br />
Laura’s 12-year-old daughter will be<br />
in 8th grade at Dodge City Middle<br />
School, much to her relief after finishing<br />
school at home last spring.<br />
She hopes to resume her activities<br />
in track and as a cheerleader. Saralyn<br />
had a bad spell with her heart stopping<br />
repeatedly in Jan., but, thanks<br />
to Hamp’s quick action in pumping<br />
her heart and calling an ambulance,<br />
she survived. She was air-lifted to<br />
Wichita for stent surgery, and has<br />
been fine since. Between her meds<br />
and Hamp’s, their bathroom looks<br />
like a pharmacy.<br />
Sally McCrady Hubbard appreciates<br />
her classmates writing about<br />
all the different ways they have adjusted<br />
to life during a pandemic. We<br />
are survivors, and we have Zoom,<br />
Netflix, books, gardens and cooking.<br />
She is proud of us all. A late spring<br />
hike in France on a third section of<br />
the Camino de Santiago had to be<br />
postponed indefinitely. Sally has<br />
survived by hiking and reading more<br />
than usual and by making face masks<br />
for neighbors, the gas station, the elementary<br />
school, deaf students who<br />
needed masks with a vinyl window,<br />
the post office, a medical clinic, a<br />
pediatrician’s office, and her children<br />
and granddaughter Margaret.<br />
Honestly, without that daily sewing<br />
project, she would have been a basket<br />
case of anxieties. Daughter, Anna,<br />
evacuated from San Francisco and is<br />
staying with a friend in Santa Rosa.<br />
Son Hayne’s office has managed to<br />
supply its international employees<br />
with laptops, software and WiFi, and<br />
not lay anyone off. Sally will have a<br />
precious if brief visit with them<br />
during their drive from Fort Worth<br />
to Pittsburgh (safer than flying?) to<br />
take Margaret back to Carnegie Mellon<br />
where she’s a junior in technical<br />
theatre (sound). Sewanee students<br />
will return to extreme restrictions—<br />
cars and extra stuff are discouraged<br />
in case they have to shut down and<br />
send everyone home. Classes are<br />
limited to 10 people, some in tents.<br />
<strong>College</strong> without partying? Whatever<br />
next.<br />
1966<br />
Penn Willets Mullin-Fullerton<br />
124 Linden Ln.<br />
San Rafael, CA 94901<br />
pennhome@aol.com<br />
To the ladies on lockdown (aka<br />
the Class of 1966): Where once<br />
we were worried about the freshman-15,<br />
now we are faced with the<br />
COVID-19! Hello all! I hope this<br />
finds you well! Reading your submissions<br />
has been a process that stirred<br />
deep reflection within me. Perhaps<br />
your words had a particular impact<br />
during this uncertain time. And<br />
your words have made me so proud:<br />
proud to be your classmate, proud<br />
of your courage, proud of your love<br />
for your college, impressed with your<br />
resilience.<br />
Classmates have dealt with the<br />
quarantine in interesting ways!<br />
One who shall go nameless admits<br />
dashing out of her house one night<br />
braless and maskless to photograph<br />
a nearby demonstration! (Veteran<br />
reporter.) Others of us report channeling<br />
their inner slob. This made me<br />
feel that I am not alone. (Thank you,<br />
Sid!)<br />
I sense that all of you feel the<br />
importance now more than ever of<br />
connection. We will get through<br />
this time and thrive again, reaching<br />
out with love and support of one another.<br />
For, as Cherry Brown Peters<br />
so rightly wrote, “This is what <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> women do!”<br />
Starting off with Judy Barthold<br />
De Simone, who shares her gratitude<br />
that she and Frank are safe and<br />
well. They have shocked themselves<br />
by getting a puppy, after vows of never<br />
again! You guys are not as nutso as<br />
you think! Have fun! Judy sends best<br />
wishes that all of us stay well!<br />
Since Jan., Cherry Brown Peters<br />
has been challenged with non-Hodgkin<br />
lymphoma, but has finished<br />
with her chemo now and feels very<br />
encouraged. Having her sister nearby<br />
during this time has meant so<br />
much to her. Cherry is hunkering<br />
down to wait for the vaccine, but<br />
when it comes, look out, world! We<br />
send you so much love and our best<br />
wishes, Cherry!<br />
Margaret Brown Bucak has<br />
shared the sad news that Sureyya,<br />
her husband of 51 years, passed<br />
away in April. Our hearts are with<br />
you at this time, Margaret. We are<br />
glad to learn that your daughter,<br />
Ayse Papatya Bukak, has published<br />
a book of short stories, “The Trojan<br />
War Museum.” Congratulations! After<br />
COVID, I know you will enjoy<br />
getting back to your job as a bus aide<br />
for special needs kids. Stay well now!<br />
“Who knew it was so interesting<br />
to live in an historic district?!” writes<br />
Betty Booker from Richmond,<br />
where she and Dabney are hunkered<br />
down in their neighborhood right in<br />
the center of many protests. They<br />
are grateful to be healthy and keep<br />
busy with puttering, Zoom, reading<br />
aloud, checking on their farm, just<br />
enjoying their home while all around<br />
them there has been upheaval this<br />
summer. Betty keeps up with Ginny<br />
Lee Butters, her freshman roomie<br />
and ardent environmentalist. Ginny,<br />
we need to hear from you for our<br />
next class notes!<br />
Nancy Bullard Reed has some<br />
exciting news to share: her son,<br />
Poulson Reed, has been consecrated<br />
Episcopal Bishop of OK! Congratulations<br />
to all!<br />
From NYC comes news from<br />
Lin Campbell, who reports that she<br />
and her husband are fine, self-isolating<br />
but still keeping up with Susan<br />
Kjeldsen Roos with b.y.o. front steps<br />
lunches! In normal times, Lin often<br />
lunches with Pam Mendolia Abernathy<br />
and Pat Grommel Young<br />
at the Morgan Library Café. A<br />
highlight last fall was when Lousie<br />
Durona Sklower joined them when<br />
in town from Paris! Lin is glad she is<br />
able to keep up with her patients via<br />
teletherapy sessions during this time.<br />
And, she loves the claps for frontline<br />
workers every night!<br />
Jean Campbell Barquin reports<br />
that she and her husband are still<br />
in their Bethesda house of 37 years<br />
with a son and grandkids right close<br />
by. She now winters on FL’s east<br />
coast at the Hillsborough Club to<br />
be near their daughter. Life is very<br />
busy with grandkids, but Jean and<br />
her husband still find time for tennis,<br />
paddle and their new sport, croquet!<br />
She shares that she is missing friends<br />
and looks forward to traveling as<br />
soon as COVID allows!<br />
“It takes a vineyard to homeschool<br />
a child!” writes Vicki Chainski<br />
Verity from Beaufort, SC. The<br />
pandemic has had a silver lining in<br />
that her daughter and grandson have<br />
moved in with Vicki and her husband.<br />
The rewards have been deeper<br />
relationships and lots of memories<br />
made. Other blessings are reconnecting<br />
with friends, cocktails and yoga<br />
on zoom and getting to live in such<br />
a beautiful place! Vicki, we want<br />
to hear more about your vineyard!<br />
Maybe you can consult at SBC!<br />
The past months have been filled<br />
with many emotions for Keenan<br />
Colton Kelsey, who writes that<br />
she lives with “daily dichotomies of<br />
grief and fear, confusion and anger,<br />
uncertainty and judgment,” alongside<br />
“great gratitude and personal<br />
introspection and discernment of<br />
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values and yearning, poignant love<br />
for family and friends. Around both<br />
extremes, lots of prayer!” At the<br />
same time, she admits feeling restless,<br />
anxious, eager, lazy, distracted<br />
and unmotivated. Sound familiar<br />
to some of you? Keenan is grateful<br />
for health and having a wonderful<br />
guy in her life and for Zoom as a<br />
way to keep informed and reach out.<br />
She is immensely proud of SBC<br />
and its work to keep us solvent and<br />
proactive during this time. She feels<br />
so honored to be part of the board.<br />
Blessings to all from Keenan!<br />
Anne Frothingham Cross writes<br />
from Nantucket that she has faced a<br />
major health challenge in the past<br />
couple of years as she battles ovarian<br />
cancer. She feels extremely blessed<br />
to have such amazing medical care<br />
and to have had intervals of enough<br />
wellbeing to be able to join Dennis<br />
and her family in FL and VT. Anne’s<br />
positive attitude and courage will<br />
serve her well. She is so grateful to<br />
have been able to move in with her<br />
daughter and family in Wellesley<br />
during the COVID time. Anne<br />
is thrilled with the wonderful job<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> and its staff are doing.<br />
Anne, our hearts and best wishes are<br />
with you!<br />
Congratulations to Ann Crowe<br />
Griffin on 50 years of teaching in<br />
the public school system! Ann is so<br />
happy to have her daughter and four<br />
children nearby to Duluth where<br />
she lives; her son lives in SC. Ann<br />
is a fighter and a survivor of various<br />
health challenges, more and more a<br />
story for all of us now. We wish you<br />
well and will keep you in our hearts.<br />
Evie Day Butler and Jeff have<br />
moved back to Ft. Worth where<br />
their son William’s family lives. It’s<br />
like coming home, since Jeff was<br />
Headmaster of Ft. Worth Country<br />
Day for many years. Son Jeff is a firefighter<br />
in Ft. Collins, CO.<br />
Nancy Conkle Swann writes<br />
from her island home on St. Barthelemy<br />
that she has enjoyed the feeling<br />
of safety there during these uncertain<br />
times. She and David, who passed<br />
away in 2018, discovered this idyllic<br />
spot in 1971 and returned every year.<br />
Nancy keeps up this tradition. She’s<br />
back home in Atlanta now, since her<br />
island airport finally opened up!<br />
After a lifetime in DC, NYC and<br />
FL, Robin Cutler has moved to the<br />
west coast! That took courage! The<br />
prize: getting to be near her two<br />
daughters and grandsons. But just<br />
as she arrived in Oakland, the lockdown<br />
did too. She has been living in<br />
a retirement community, hoping to<br />
get to see her family more and meet<br />
some people (hard in masks!) Robin<br />
is grateful to Zoom for being able to<br />
connect to the outside world. Randi,<br />
Keenan and I are in touch with her<br />
and hope to get together soon! So<br />
glad to welcome her to CA!<br />
Congrats to Ellie Gilmore<br />
Massie, who married Pete Taylor on<br />
Feb. 22, <strong>2020</strong>! He was a high school<br />
and college beau. Their first date was<br />
in 1961! “Better late than never!”<br />
writes Ellie. A wedding is such wonderful<br />
news!! Yay!<br />
El Griggs Diemar writes that<br />
her husband, Bob, who has been battling<br />
health and vision problems for<br />
some time, has suddenly developed<br />
Parkinson’s-related cognitive issues.<br />
Our thoughts are so much with you,<br />
El, as you face these challenges with<br />
Bob. I hope that you have a large network<br />
of friends and family for support<br />
right now.<br />
Harriette Horsley Sturges is<br />
sure that now that her second son<br />
has moved to Louisburg where she<br />
lives, both her boys will be making<br />
sure Harriette and her husband<br />
behave! Ha! Harriette has been using<br />
the pandemic time for in-depth<br />
exploration of racial issues. She is<br />
hopeful that the protests will bring<br />
change. “Changing laws is important<br />
but changing minds is just as important,<br />
harder to accomplish. We<br />
really need transformation. Minds<br />
and hearts are needed.”<br />
“Spending an occasional day in<br />
my robe is not a bad thing!” writes<br />
Sally Kalber Fiedler from Richmond.<br />
I second that! Yes! Sally<br />
speaks of missing friends and wishing<br />
she could get out and about, but<br />
otherwise, she and her husband are<br />
fine. She sends her best wishes to all<br />
to stay healthy!<br />
Ann Kerr Preaus reports that<br />
she and Gene had a wonderful trip<br />
to visit their daughter in the mountains<br />
of NC. Randi Miles Long fits<br />
more into one day during the quarantine!<br />
I am amazed at how many<br />
scrapbooks and memoirs she’s done!<br />
I feel like a slacker when we talk! She<br />
and Herb celebrated 54 years of marriage<br />
this June! They are gardeners,<br />
birders, hikers and very involved in<br />
the social outreach of their church<br />
and community. Zoom helps them<br />
keep in close touch with daughter,<br />
Melissa, in Charlotte and son, Kent,<br />
who lives nearby. I miss my breakfasts<br />
with Randi in Berkeley! We<br />
will resume….<br />
Harrah Lord writes from Rockport,<br />
ME, that she was recently<br />
married to John Newburn. Congratulations,<br />
Harrah! It’s great to have<br />
this wedding news for our class!<br />
Harrah tells the story of being at<br />
SBC and suddenly noticing students<br />
in tears, looking at their phones. She<br />
thought: What’s happened? It was<br />
the day of the announcement of the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s closing, a devastating moment<br />
to be on campus. So, Harrah<br />
feels especially elated to see how well<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> is doing now!<br />
Jane Nelson divides her time<br />
between Richmond and Culpeper<br />
these days. Keeping up the house in<br />
Culpeper has her pretty busy when<br />
she’s there. She misses St. Paul’s<br />
Church in Richmond and her great<br />
community there. Zoom cannot replace<br />
real people contact, she says. I<br />
sure agree! Recently she shared golden<br />
time with her niece and nephew<br />
on a visit to Culpeper. Jane is so<br />
pleased with the wonderful job of<br />
leadership from President Woo and<br />
her staff. And a special thank you,<br />
Jane, for all your help to Gracie for<br />
the annual fund!<br />
“I still have a great horse to ride<br />
and enjoy! And my gardens!” writes<br />
Abby Patterson Shultis from<br />
Southern Pines. Abby is in the early<br />
stages of Alzheimer’s and is making<br />
plans to sell her little farm in the<br />
next few years and transition to one<br />
of the many senior facilities nearby.<br />
She misses everyone and is excited<br />
for reunion!<br />
Natalie Roberts Funk and Jeff<br />
are really enjoying their retirement<br />
facility in Ellicott City, MD. It’s been<br />
very different now with COVID,<br />
but Natalie has a great attitude. She<br />
and Jeff are busy planning trips for as<br />
soon as the travel ban is lifted! But<br />
she is saving time for sure to come<br />
to reunion next spring and connect<br />
with everyone!<br />
Our hearts go out to Sheila Nolan<br />
Fuller on the loss of her husband,<br />
Bob, last October to a respiratory<br />
illness. Shelia writes from FL,<br />
where she is staying well and slowly<br />
adjusting to widowhood, hard work.<br />
Certainly, this challenge is one many<br />
classmates are experiencing. Maybe<br />
some words of encouragement<br />
and good tips could be shared for<br />
navigating these unfamiliar waters.<br />
Contact information is available at<br />
the SBC alumnae office. Shelia is<br />
pleased that Bob’s grandson, Matt<br />
Fuller, graduated from Princeton<br />
and may be headed to the State Department!<br />
“I am not about to quit now after<br />
we worked so hard to save the<br />
<strong>College</strong>,” writes Marcia Pace Lindstrom.<br />
I think she speaks for all of<br />
us who continue to support <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>. Marcia admires President<br />
Woo’s leadership, the core curriculum<br />
and the wonderful agricultural<br />
projects underway. Marcia and her<br />
husband are now living in Pensacola,<br />
her hometown, to be near her<br />
parents, who are 96 and 101! Marcia<br />
enjoyed a wonderful trip to Ireland<br />
with Jeannie Jackson Exum last year,<br />
and they keep up with online bridge!<br />
Andrea Peason Pennington and<br />
her husband have downsized to a<br />
smaller house and report it’s still<br />
quite a work in progress! But they’re<br />
determined! They are trying to be<br />
good about the sheltering rules while<br />
still enjoying their AL summer!<br />
Lucky gal Martha Madden Swanson<br />
got on a cruise to HI and a visit<br />
with her daughter right before the<br />
lockdown hit! Now back home, she<br />
and her husband feel lucky to have<br />
their son bringing them groceries!<br />
Good man! Martha keeps busy on<br />
a board at Georgetown and leading<br />
the School of Hope Foundation<br />
Board, which raises funds for a Jesuit<br />
model high school in Nairobi. Martha<br />
is very excited that <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
will open in person this fall!<br />
“For an only-child like me, having<br />
12 grandkids is an amazing<br />
experience!” writes Pearl Riggan<br />
Adamson from Richmond. Most of<br />
the grands live nearby too! Pearl and<br />
Cassell had a wonderful visit with<br />
all four of their kids this summer!<br />
I had never had the chance to know<br />
Pearl well while at SBC, but getting<br />
to room with her at our last reunion<br />
was golden!<br />
Penny Steketee Sidor’s husband,<br />
Marion Joseph, was finally able to<br />
have hip surgery, she reports. The<br />
promise of being back on the golf<br />
course was sure to spur him on to<br />
diligent rehab! With cardigan corgi<br />
Drea at her side, Susan Sudduth<br />
Hiller is filling her days, especially<br />
Sundays, with lots of Zoom calls<br />
to keep in touch with her church<br />
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and her outreach community in Little<br />
Rock. She misses the in-person<br />
contact, though, with hospice and<br />
some of her grief workshops. Her<br />
NY/GA grandkids and daughter<br />
Penn are never far away via Zoom,<br />
and she has been able to virtually attend<br />
many celebrations this spring!<br />
Susan, Keenan, Jane Nelson and I<br />
are so disappointed to have to postpone<br />
our annual mini-reunion this<br />
summer. But it will happen! Susan<br />
writes of how proud she is of <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>, President Woo and her staff.<br />
“Kudos to all!” She sends hopes and<br />
prayers to each of us for peace and<br />
good health.<br />
Jane Taylor Ryan and John are<br />
now living in Somersworth, NH.<br />
John just recently entered a memory<br />
care facility, so having their daughter<br />
and grandkids living nearby is such<br />
a support for Jane. Our prayers and<br />
best wishes go out to you, Jane, in<br />
this challenging time.<br />
Sally Thomas Hoffman and her<br />
husband celebrated their 50th wedding<br />
anniversary with a Viking River<br />
Cruise in Europe! Congratulations,<br />
you two! This was Sally’s husband’s<br />
first time in Europe, but Sally confided<br />
that she had hitchhiked there<br />
in the late 60s! Who knew?? Sally<br />
is active with the Seattle American<br />
Sewing Guild and misses her sewing<br />
buddies during lockdown. Her garden<br />
and tending five acres of woods<br />
give her plenty of exercise!<br />
Sid Turner, hunkering down,<br />
worries: “Will I recognize friends<br />
and family if they are wearing masks<br />
and haven’t been to the hairdresser<br />
in months? Will I resent having to<br />
be presentable and be somewhere on<br />
time? Will I be alive when the <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> magazine is published? Here<br />
are things I am grateful for: Amazon<br />
and the kind people from church<br />
who bring us groceries, Zoom,<br />
email, PBS, NPR, uninterrupted<br />
time to do things around the house,<br />
and most importantly, that Lee and I<br />
got out of the hospital/rehab before<br />
COVID really hit! Keep calm and<br />
carry on!”<br />
Di Simrell Savory writes of her<br />
deep gratitude to all who helped carry<br />
her through the loss of her husband<br />
Philip in 2017 at age 87. She is<br />
hugely thankful to Kathy Sheahan<br />
Reid, who held her hand through<br />
that painful journey. We send our<br />
love and prayers now to Kathy, who<br />
is dealing with the challenge of serious<br />
illness herself. Kathy sends<br />
blessings and hopes that those who<br />
knew her well will write her at kathleensreid@gmail.com<br />
or 3821 Crescent<br />
Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93110.<br />
Kathy thinks back often of her joys<br />
and challenges at SBC. Di continues<br />
to teach at Washington Montessori<br />
School in CT. “This has sparked my<br />
life,” says Di. Teaching via Zoom has<br />
been a challenge, though!<br />
Hooray for Gracie Butler Tucker,<br />
our stellar class fund agent! You<br />
are amazing and we are so grateful<br />
for your nudging us along each year<br />
as we support our <strong>College</strong>! Gracie<br />
writes of how much she enjoyed<br />
working with Jane Nelson on their<br />
list this year. In Princeton, Gracie and<br />
Jotham are trying to keep healthy.<br />
Lots of walks, gardening, and they<br />
love staying connected to their community<br />
and church through Zoom.<br />
They have managed to virtually see<br />
two of their children and families<br />
during the pandemic, but haven’t<br />
ventured too far. Stay healthy, everyone,<br />
Gracie orders! We need to be<br />
physically present for reunion next<br />
May 28-30 at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>!<br />
From Rutgers Medical School<br />
where she and her husband teach<br />
came a check-in from Muriel Wikswo<br />
Lambert. She shares that it’s<br />
been quite a challenge teaching large<br />
classes via WebEx! All three of Muriel’s<br />
children are also in medicine.<br />
Amazing! She is happy to report<br />
that she has four grandchildren!<br />
We were so saddened to learn of<br />
the passing of Judy Wilson Grant<br />
on June 15 after a long battle with<br />
pancreatic cancer. Multos amavit<br />
a multis amata. She loved many,<br />
by many she was loved. These final<br />
words of her obituary certainly work<br />
to capture the kind of person Judy<br />
was: <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> board member,<br />
tireless philanthropist and community<br />
leader in Denver, vice-regent of<br />
Mt. Vernon. She and Newell have<br />
four children and many grandchildren,<br />
who will be a source of strong<br />
support for Newell. Who can forget<br />
Judy’s constant, welcoming smile, her<br />
bubbly presence? I can picture her so<br />
clearly back when we were students.<br />
She shall be missed as she is loved,<br />
by so many.<br />
Closing now, and sending you<br />
all every good wish to stay safe and<br />
healthy! I have enjoyed having this<br />
chance to hear from so many of you<br />
and catch up on your lives. I myself<br />
feel very blessed to have my three<br />
children and eight grandchildren<br />
here in northern CA! Throughout<br />
COVID I have sheltered in place<br />
off and on with my daughter and<br />
her family who live close by, and this<br />
has been a wonderful support. Right<br />
now, my life is enriched by grandchildren,<br />
gardening, books, close friends,<br />
walks with Keenan every week and<br />
fly-fishing when I get the chance!<br />
Take good care, all, and plan on Reunion<br />
next May! Penn Willets Mullin-Fullerton.<br />
xxoo<br />
1967<br />
Gail Robins O’Quin<br />
2651 Kleinert Avenue<br />
Baton Rouge, LA 70806-6823<br />
cgrobins@ix.netcom.com<br />
Hard to believe that half of <strong>2020</strong><br />
is gone, especially with this staycation<br />
in place. I do hope everyone is<br />
well and not too bored (although<br />
there are worse conditions than<br />
boredom!). The big winner for the<br />
responder kudos to my request for<br />
news is Janie Willingham McNabb.<br />
She reported, “Right now we are on<br />
vacation at Fripp Island, SC, with all<br />
my children and grandchildren and<br />
having a wonderful time. My news is<br />
that I’ve got three grandchildren going<br />
off to college this next fall and of<br />
the 21 (WOW!) the rest are either<br />
in college already or out or still in<br />
high school, middle school and even<br />
one in grammar school; they keep<br />
us busy (I’d say so!). My big ongoing<br />
project is to let each grandchild<br />
choose at age seventeen somewhere<br />
in the United States where he/she<br />
wants to go. I’ve been taking one<br />
or two trips a year seeing this wonderful<br />
country through the eyes of a<br />
grandchild! I’m enjoying these trips<br />
because I’ve really never seen the<br />
United States (what a way to see it<br />
and develop lifelong memories for<br />
everyone)! Just hope COVID has<br />
not required you to cancel your<br />
plans!<br />
Adele Laslie Kellman and her<br />
husband bought a home just south<br />
of Sarasota in Osprey, FL, in 2017<br />
and started spending winters there.<br />
“Our plan is to move permanently<br />
to FL, but we are in the process<br />
of selling our summer home in the<br />
Berkshires first. We became grandparents<br />
in Aug. of 2017 to granddaughter,<br />
Emily Tutor, and make<br />
frequent visits to see our daughter,<br />
Allison, son-in-law, Nick Tudor, and<br />
Emily in Andorra where they all live.<br />
We spent two summers ago in Great<br />
Barrington, MA, and then went in<br />
the fall to Europe to visit our family,<br />
also making a trip into France for five<br />
nights and then a trip to Holland for<br />
10 rain filled days, eight of them on a<br />
barge. We also went on a five-night<br />
trip to Havana, Cuba, which we really<br />
enjoyed. Son, Simon, is living and<br />
working in NY with his girlfriend.”<br />
Hope the Kellmans have been able<br />
to continue with their traveling!<br />
Linda Fite claims that she beats<br />
me in being “the biggest slug on the<br />
block.” We’ll have to have a face-off!<br />
Fite’s news: “The pandemic has been<br />
really, really interesting to me (in the<br />
abstract). We have lived a long time,<br />
and we have gone through a lot of<br />
traumatic and searing history during<br />
those decades, especially since (for<br />
most of us) the first 10 or so years<br />
were pretty swell, no? A bunch of<br />
privileged little white girls living a<br />
Father Knows Best kind of TV existence,<br />
going to school, playing with<br />
our friends, watching The Mickey<br />
Mouse Club and eating all kinds of<br />
stuff we now consider bad—not to<br />
mention (in my case, in AL) chasing<br />
after the DDT trucks driving<br />
through the neighborhood, spraying<br />
clouds of toxic materials out the<br />
back! But then came incursions of<br />
the grimmer reality (much of which<br />
was not shared with us kids by my<br />
parents): the house un-American<br />
activities witch hunts, the Korean<br />
conflict, the abiding racism, J. Edgar<br />
Hoover’s creepy FBI. But we went<br />
off to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> just as the folk<br />
music thing had begun in earnest,<br />
just as the civil rights protests were<br />
starting, then the president was assassinated!<br />
And then it seemed like<br />
people were getting killed all over—<br />
other assassinations, and then the<br />
Vietnam War and all its horrors,<br />
and then Watergate, for crying’ out<br />
loud! And more deadly riots, and<br />
then the World Trade Center and<br />
Pentagon terrorist attacks. And then<br />
the school shootings started, and<br />
the going postal shootings and the<br />
just random, crazy shootings. It’s a<br />
wonder any of us ever drew a calm<br />
breath. Of course, we are still privi-<br />
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leged white ladies, and frankly that<br />
helps in this crazy world, but not<br />
really. And the pandemic has shown<br />
that nobody is safe. It’s downright<br />
biblical! You know, the passage about<br />
two women working in the fields,<br />
and one is taken and one isn’t, no<br />
rhyme or reason. (Well, of course,<br />
there is a reason with COVID-19:<br />
You get the virus!) And that’s the<br />
(abstractly) interesting part for me:<br />
that no one is immune, that everyone<br />
on the planet is vulnerable. We<br />
could/should learn something from<br />
that. It really is very much like an<br />
alien invasion, the kind where they<br />
make the Hollywood movie, the kind<br />
that brings the whole world together<br />
to fight the invaders. Only, in this<br />
case, in the U.S. at least, it seems to<br />
be yet another thing to tear us apart.<br />
People throwing conspiracy theories<br />
around, accusing scientists of having<br />
some weird political motives, etc.,<br />
etc. Anyway...pardon my diversion!<br />
I will now give a class notes report!!<br />
(Leave it to Linda to summarize the<br />
last 70 years of our lives!)<br />
The pandemic hasn’t had a huge<br />
effect on my quotidian life. I mostly<br />
just hung out before the coronavirus<br />
swept the globe, so I pretty much<br />
still do that—hang out. I work from<br />
home (freelance copy editor), so I<br />
continue doing that. One of my kids<br />
lives around the block, so I have had<br />
almost daily contact with her and the<br />
grandkids, which has helped the isolation<br />
thing. I started making more<br />
art for a while—really enjoyed that.<br />
My non-boyfriend (don’t ask—we<br />
wouldn’t dare), an artist, was encouraging.<br />
In fact, he and I and another<br />
artist had a group show (around the<br />
theme of the old canal here) planned<br />
for Aug. at a little gallery, but it probably<br />
won’t happen because of the<br />
pandemic. I saw Pam Ford Kelley<br />
in late Feb., down in FL, and we’ve<br />
Zoomed (with a couple of other<br />
pals) since then. Oh! And this is the<br />
first time I got into FaceTime with<br />
family and friends. I love it. One<br />
other pandemic activity: I am going<br />
through drawers and boxes, throwing<br />
out letters, papers, photographs<br />
that are obsolete or would be of zero<br />
interest to my kids or their kids.<br />
I’m grateful that it’s summer now<br />
and I can hang out on the screened<br />
porch!” Just be glad you are in a climate<br />
where you can hang out on a<br />
screened porch! AC does not cut it<br />
on screened porches!<br />
Toni Naren Gates and Linda<br />
are kindred spirits. “Like Linda, I<br />
have been sorting through all the<br />
gruesome events of our collective 75<br />
years and trying to understand why<br />
this pandemic just seems the most<br />
monumental. Yes, because as white<br />
women we were more observers, intellectual<br />
protesters, distant fighters<br />
and the real stuff wasn’t directly happening<br />
to us. Yes, because so many<br />
horrific acts happened to some and<br />
not all, we were horrified and terrified...angry<br />
beyond belief, but not<br />
personally victimized. But this virus<br />
has the potential to infect everyone,<br />
and no one knows if they can survive<br />
it or it will bring them down. It does<br />
feel like you could personify this<br />
pandemic as a King Kong-like monster<br />
stalking through cities, suburbs<br />
and countryside destroying victims<br />
as it passes by with little regard to<br />
who or why. When we were not even<br />
hugging our grandchildren in the beginning<br />
of this, you know it’s messed<br />
with your mind! Like everyone else,<br />
we’ve cancelled trips and pulled in<br />
our outreach to a precious few. But,<br />
we summer in the Adirondacks and<br />
are here now. We are able to get up<br />
every morning and look at the lake<br />
and the mountains. We have our<br />
daughter and her family just down<br />
the lake from us. We have a few local<br />
friends we can hang out on the dock<br />
with and share a drink and a meal.<br />
So, we count our blessings. And<br />
through all of this, there have definitely<br />
been some positives for our<br />
family. The pause turned us inward,<br />
and we did things that, well, we just<br />
didn’t ever seem to have time for before.<br />
To end, our favorite early spring<br />
activity was to have a date night most<br />
nights. We ate a quick dinner, then<br />
went down to our viewing room<br />
and became very hooked on Netflix.<br />
Loved many shows but in the end,<br />
Ozark ruled! Of course, I hope everyone<br />
stays safe and well. We, too,<br />
are trying our best!”<br />
Bonnie Blew Pierie reports, “The<br />
COVID crisis hit us first in FL with<br />
the state closing up. We prepared for<br />
departing for the north (MA) with<br />
the understanding that the closure<br />
would lift for travel in the beginning<br />
of May. Traveling by car, bringing<br />
along our elderly cat, we stayed over<br />
two nights, wiping down the rooms<br />
and bringing our own food. It was<br />
stressful but successful. Our summer<br />
was supposed to be spent getting our<br />
northern house ready for sale, but<br />
there seems to be too much outside<br />
work for two old people sporting<br />
bad backs to have time for sorting<br />
and tossing. (Yet it seems we are still<br />
capable enough to go spend a week<br />
over the 4th at our daughter’s taking<br />
care of horses, a dog and 3 wild cats,<br />
one needing to be caught to go to<br />
the vet for removal of stitches.) We<br />
are looking forward to a time when<br />
we can do some couch potato activity<br />
but know we will also miss being<br />
way-too-busy.” All understood!<br />
Amazing that children who worry<br />
about their elderly parents can assign<br />
tasks with which we would have had<br />
trouble completing at the ripe old age<br />
of 40!<br />
Eleanor Marie Crossley is like<br />
most of us, “hunkering down and following<br />
the virus guidelines, I will be<br />
85 this year, so I am certainly in the<br />
high-risk group. David and I will celebrate<br />
our 3rd anniversary this Sept.,<br />
and we haven’t killed each other in<br />
quarantine yet, so we must be doing<br />
something right.” You are amazing—<br />
can’t believe that it has been three<br />
years since you tied the knot; yes,<br />
you’re doing a lot right!<br />
Mary French “Bonnie” Jackson<br />
(now Mary Azima Jackson) has<br />
shared some fascinating news (she’s<br />
kept it under wraps). She writes, “I<br />
have loved seeing others’ news, so<br />
thought I’d share some. Only SBC<br />
person I have seen in years was<br />
Carroll Randolph Barr two or three<br />
years ago in Larchmont, NY, when<br />
she was visiting family. That was<br />
a treat for me! She was great and<br />
hadn’t changed much to my eyes.<br />
Otherwise, to recap my last year, the<br />
downside was that I was diagnosed<br />
with metastatic cancer last Oct. with<br />
a deadline for life. However, I have<br />
passed the deadline, and plan to be<br />
around for quite a while longer. I<br />
decided not to go the medical route<br />
for the most part, so I have a good<br />
quality of life and am getting stronger.<br />
The upside of this last year, is<br />
that I published a little picture book<br />
about songs I wrote and sang on a<br />
CD that are in the back of the book.<br />
I am actually using my own songs to<br />
comfort me on this present healing<br />
journey. It’s called ‘Journey of Song<br />
for Life’s Transitions.’ It can be ordered<br />
from my website, maryazima.<br />
com.” Be sure to check it out. Bonnie<br />
is one more courageous and talented<br />
SBC woman (Dean Pearl would<br />
have insisted on Lady!).<br />
Maria Wiglesworth Hemmings<br />
claims that “COVID did it. I had to<br />
resign from the hospital or become a<br />
patient as I am at high-risk for the<br />
virus. On to the next gig whatever it<br />
may be. So, no travel this year but we<br />
are playing golf and did make it to<br />
the Adirondacks. And we just made<br />
it to WY and back to ski before CT<br />
shut down. Time to read Thomas<br />
Merton (for us uninitiated Roman<br />
Catholic monk, poet and prolific<br />
writer on spiritual and social themes,<br />
one of the most important American<br />
Roman Catholic writers of the 20th<br />
century). Stay healthy all; this virus<br />
is wicked.” Can’t wait to hear what<br />
Maria’s next gig will be— something<br />
fascinating, no doubt!<br />
Victoria Jones Baker is or was<br />
still tripping the light fantastic. “As<br />
some wag stated, ‘The worst purchase<br />
of 2019 was a <strong>2020</strong> year-planner!’<br />
Lee and I couldn’t have imagined<br />
what the next months would<br />
be like when we embarked on our<br />
wonderful South American cruise<br />
from Santiago to Buenos Aires on<br />
Feb. 6, returning on the 21st. It was<br />
good luck to get that experience in,<br />
because the coronavirus has kept<br />
us practicing safer-at-home ever<br />
since. We figure we have made it<br />
this far, and we want to be alive to<br />
enjoy more travel and ballroom<br />
dancing—two of our favorite hobbies—when<br />
this whole thing is finally<br />
over. It has been a spring and<br />
summer of home improvement and<br />
garden projects, creating photo albums<br />
online, diverse volunteer work,<br />
keeping up with family and friends<br />
via the Internet and phone, working<br />
on a presentation called Badass<br />
Women Pirates, and doing our part<br />
to flatten the curve—which has been<br />
futile here in virus-raging FL. At<br />
least I’ve been able to Skype with my<br />
100-year-old mom, who remains in<br />
high spirits in an assisted living facility<br />
in Melbourne and will be 101<br />
in Sept. Hang in there, everyone, and<br />
stay safe.”<br />
Judy Bensen Stigle says, “Hello<br />
to you all, and I hope you are being<br />
safe and staying healthy. Here<br />
in FL our numbers are bad but we<br />
know no one who has been infected.<br />
Thank God. Adele Laslie, call me<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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when in Osprey. Bonnie Blew and I<br />
are in Venice. Telephone: (203) 430-<br />
4334.”<br />
Bill and I are still in Baton Rouge,<br />
ready to kill each other being locked<br />
up together for what seems like<br />
years. I’ve been classed as elderly and<br />
have not disappointed the category.<br />
I fell getting into bed when this<br />
quarantine first started and broke<br />
two ribs—it’s a lot harder healing<br />
process than it was 30 years ago! I’m<br />
doing well but am being a lot more<br />
cautious! Bill decided that he needed<br />
a man cave and has totally converted<br />
the garage into a bar, TV viewing<br />
station, etc.; the only thing it is<br />
lacking is a cot so I cannot lock him<br />
outside! Actually, it has kept him<br />
occupied and it is rather unique; it<br />
was even featured in the local paper<br />
as being “The Ultimate Tailgate!” If<br />
we could just control the mosquitoes<br />
without poisoning ourselves and<br />
guests! We and two other couples<br />
are scheduled to go to St. Augustine<br />
in Sept. Hopefully we’ll have a little<br />
change of scenery! Everyone stay safe<br />
and be well! This too shall pass, one<br />
way or the other. Gail<br />
1968<br />
Anne Kinsey Dinan<br />
8 Peter Cooper Road, Apt. 11F<br />
New York, N.Y. 10010<br />
akdinan@rcn.com<br />
Betsy Wolfe: “Last March, I<br />
moved to Columbia, SC, with my<br />
husband Ed Jacobson. Ed moved<br />
into an Alzheimer’s residence there,<br />
where, despite COVID restrictions,<br />
we had a good, lengthy visit. Ed’s<br />
death at the end June was followed<br />
by a funeral service and later a memorial<br />
service with friends in CA<br />
and SC via Zoom. It all went quite<br />
well. Now I am happy to be in Columbia<br />
with my large, close family<br />
(six siblings and many nieces and<br />
nephews), bicycling and walking<br />
daily with relatives plus swimming<br />
in a brother’s pool. All in all, I feel<br />
like a very fortunate woman. I have<br />
enjoyed catching up with my roommates,<br />
Francie deSaussure Meade<br />
and Martha Bennett.”<br />
Pam Boyd Daniel: “Husband<br />
Dave and I are still kicking and feeling<br />
good. We were in charge of homeschooling<br />
our two grandkids last<br />
spring and have Zoom down! (Using<br />
Zoom might be a possible way to<br />
meet and greet our class members).<br />
Because of the uptick in coronavirus<br />
cases here in FL, we may be homeschooling<br />
the girls for the first quarter<br />
of school in the fall. Everything else<br />
is pretty quiet for us. I am keeping<br />
my blood pressure down by ignoring<br />
politics! I hope everyone is well.”<br />
Katey Buster: “After our Savannah<br />
plans were cancelled by COVID,<br />
I went birding as spring migration<br />
was in full swing in April/May in<br />
KY, where I now live after growing<br />
up near Lexington. Birding is a great<br />
escape from the coronavirus scene—<br />
social distancing is natural, easy, no<br />
mask, just immersion in the present<br />
moment. I visited KY nature preserves<br />
and other new places. I have<br />
many projects including genealogy as<br />
the local University of KY is doing a<br />
special collection on both sides of my<br />
family. My health is good except for<br />
gradual loss of vision due to glaucoma.<br />
I continue to feel blessed at my<br />
age and feel gratitude that I was able<br />
to experience once normal lifestyles<br />
before the age of COVID-19. Stay<br />
safe during these turbulent times!”<br />
Sara Granath: “Greetings from<br />
Tullinge, Sweden. Of course, my<br />
favorite things are cancelled: live<br />
sports with an audience, including<br />
the Olympics and various world<br />
cups. No theatre, no opera, no international<br />
theatre research conference<br />
in Galway, Ireland. But I make do<br />
with lots of TV and books, my daily<br />
French and Portuguese exercises on<br />
Duolingo and long walks. I talk to<br />
people I meet, at a distance. I meet<br />
with my book club outdoors and<br />
sometimes have coffee with a friend,<br />
outdoors. Far away friends and<br />
colleagues I meet via Zoom. No financial<br />
problems, since I am retired.<br />
Some weeks I spend at my brother’s<br />
summer house, mostly alone. I am<br />
very privileged and quite OK.”<br />
Barbara Baur Dunlap: “Despite<br />
the news about AZ spikes<br />
in COVID, we are all fine. I hope<br />
COVID has not affected SBC too<br />
much because it is a treasure. We<br />
are still busy with Bible studies and<br />
our 14 U.S. grandkids. Our daughter,<br />
Holly, cares over some wonderful<br />
kiddos in Malawi. Malawi has a<br />
new president who we hope works<br />
out well for the people there. Love<br />
to you all.”<br />
Mary King Craddock: “I am<br />
sending a photograph of suite-mates<br />
reunited: (left to right) Susie Hill<br />
Glick, Mary King Craddock and<br />
Marilyn Meyers Buckey. We had a<br />
wonderful reunion visiting Marilyn<br />
in her home in Akron, OH. What<br />
a great time we enjoyed, reminiscing<br />
and toasting our wonderful times at<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. Lots of champagne and<br />
many recollections made a perfect<br />
visit last Aug. I think we still look<br />
the same!”<br />
Ann Biggs Lewis Jackson: “I’ve<br />
been enjoying the wide-open spaces<br />
of my farm in MD and gardening.<br />
I left FL in late March when<br />
curfew was imposed and beaches<br />
closed. Locked down with nothing<br />
better to do, everything in the vegetable<br />
garden got a head start in my<br />
greenhouse, so I’m enjoying earlier<br />
than usual crops as well as trickster<br />
bridge. Other than that, life is pretty<br />
dull. Stay well everyone, wear your<br />
masks!”<br />
Libby Harvey FitzGerald:<br />
“During this challenging pandemic,<br />
I’ve continued major community<br />
involvement with my Rotary club,<br />
blood drives, social service programs<br />
for seniors and homeless, mentoring<br />
high school students, working<br />
to preserve our Petaluma Historic<br />
District, participating in anti-racist<br />
discussions, securing donations for<br />
new science/chemistry building at<br />
our local Junior <strong>College</strong> as well as<br />
enjoying our prolific back yard garden<br />
(special meditation there every<br />
morning), outdoor exercise with<br />
personal trainer in a local park, bicycling,<br />
hiking and washing masks every<br />
few days! The mask in the photo<br />
is disposable—ha!”<br />
Nancy Hickox Wright ’68 fights<br />
COVID-19 with pink and green<br />
Susie Hill Glick ’68, Mary King<br />
Craddock and Marilyn Meyers<br />
enjoying a suite-mates reunion in<br />
Aug. 2019<br />
Martha Bennett Pritchett Connor:<br />
“I hope all of you and your<br />
families are well. I have good book<br />
club suggestions: Jill McCorkle’s<br />
Hieroglyphics, Bryan Stevenson’s<br />
Just Mercy (this is also an excellent<br />
movie) and Frances Mayes’s Under<br />
the Tuscan Sun and Women in Sunlight<br />
(four women who don’t know<br />
each other heading to Italy for a year<br />
instead of moving into a retirement<br />
village). I think you will enjoy it—<br />
just given our age. I so enjoyed seeing<br />
Frances Kirven Morse ’68 and husband John Morse sporting new COVID<br />
masks<br />
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Anne Kinsey Dinan ’68, husband Terry, their daughters, spouses and their<br />
grandchildren at the New York City Oculus<br />
all of you during our Zoom! Don’t<br />
know that much has changed since<br />
then except that this routine is getting<br />
old! It is in the high 80s and low<br />
90s in Durham, but it is summer.<br />
We get away to the lake, but it is hot<br />
Martha Bennett Pritchett Connor<br />
’68 with five of her six darling<br />
grandchildren<br />
there also. All in all, life is good! Enjoy<br />
your day!<br />
Frances Kirven Morse: “John<br />
and I sold our eight-room house of<br />
20 years in Redwood City, CA, and<br />
moved 10 miles down the road to<br />
Channing House—a senior continuing<br />
care community in Palo<br />
Alto. It’s kind of like being back in a<br />
college dorm (but with private bathrooms!).<br />
There are friendly, creative,<br />
active and interesting people here,<br />
and lots of concerts and talks. The<br />
COVID-19 crisis has put a damper<br />
on many things, but we do feel safe.<br />
We are still near our daughter and<br />
her family, but have not been able<br />
to visit much with them in person.<br />
Zoom is not quite the same. Our<br />
grandkids are teenagers (13 and<br />
16, need I say more?!). For each of<br />
their birthdays, we did a surprise<br />
chalk birthday greeting in the street<br />
in front of their house. We were<br />
amazed that we could actually squat<br />
down enough to do this.<br />
As for <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> News, Nancy<br />
and I are so proud of our awesome<br />
61.5% class giving percentage!<br />
COVID-19 forced us to cancel our<br />
class mini-reunion in Savannah, but<br />
we are hoping to do it next April.<br />
Maybe more of you can join us. Stay<br />
tuned!”<br />
Nancy Hickox Wright: “I am<br />
sending a one-armed hug and much<br />
love and gratitude to all the dear<br />
women of the Class of ’68. I know we<br />
have always been off the charts but<br />
because of your generosity and willingness<br />
to help, we are now officially<br />
off the charts! 61.5%! I’m sorry that<br />
thank you notes will be a little late—<br />
this happens when you’re 73 and trip<br />
over your own feet! I thank all of you<br />
from the bottom of my heart.”<br />
Anne Kinsey Dinan: “Well,<br />
<strong>2020</strong> has certainly proven to be an<br />
eye-opening experience that all of us<br />
hope will never be repeated. Terry<br />
and I are just waiting for an opportunity<br />
to visit our children and grandchildren,<br />
as well as our extended<br />
families, without using a computer<br />
screen! On the other hand, Zoom<br />
has been very helpful. I hope and<br />
pray that our country will be able<br />
to return to reason before we reach<br />
year 2021. Meanwhile, I wish all our<br />
classmates a soon and safe release<br />
from COVID-19. What a difficult<br />
year this has been. After hoping for<br />
a hot reprieve from cold weather,<br />
we have received an extra-long heat<br />
wave!”<br />
Finally, Frances, Nancy and I<br />
continue the search for missing classmates.<br />
So, please—if you receive this<br />
alumnae magazine but did not receive<br />
a request for news and photos,<br />
please write or email me. My street<br />
and email addresses are at the top of<br />
these 1968 class notes.<br />
1969<br />
Claudette Harloe Dalton<br />
175 Rosewood Dr.<br />
Nellysford, VA 22958<br />
cla.dal2t@gmail.com<br />
It is now official: this is the best<br />
class ever! Our 50th reunion was<br />
just perfect! So many made it back<br />
and so many others contributed<br />
to our memory project! It was so<br />
heartwarming to hear about your<br />
many accomplishments and your<br />
families. (The memory project was<br />
attached as a pdf to my recent call<br />
for information. If you missed it, let<br />
me know and I will forward it.) We<br />
also won the participation award for<br />
25th through 50th reunion classes<br />
in 2019 for our participation rate of<br />
35.9%. All of this success is down<br />
to the years of leadership by Ginny<br />
Stanford Perdue! She has had many<br />
able lieutenants over the years—too<br />
many to name here—but Ginny<br />
has been the glue that has held us<br />
together and we cannot thank her<br />
enough. So, take a minute to thank<br />
her (or reach out to her at ginnyperdue@comcast.net<br />
) as she hands the<br />
reins over to Martha Brewer.<br />
I apologize again for the lack of<br />
a report through last year. I moved<br />
just before our 50th and lost my long<br />
time email a month later. I forgot<br />
to tell SBC about the new one! But<br />
hopefully you have my email now<br />
and can keep in touch—please! Also,<br />
before the 50th, Ginny and I worked<br />
on lists of who wanted to hear from<br />
just us, who wanted to hear from just<br />
SBC and who wanted the whole enchilada!<br />
These preferences may have<br />
changed and I encourage, beg, plead<br />
with you to keep me up on your contact<br />
info and preferences.<br />
I did not hear from many this<br />
time. Summer and COVID have<br />
conspired to keep us focused elsewhere.<br />
But I send you greetings from<br />
Emerald Isle, NC, where my small<br />
family is cautiously gathered for our<br />
first real gathering since March. Here<br />
is the news so far:<br />
Atlee Walker sent a note about<br />
her successful quarantine so far. Like<br />
many of us, living in a retirement<br />
village is both protection and risk.<br />
Our ages are negatives but delivered<br />
meals, groceries and other goods and<br />
the Zoom/Facetime options are life<br />
savers!<br />
Giana dePaul continues her portrait<br />
photography business in Dallas<br />
and volunteers at the arboretum and<br />
SPCA. She would love for you to<br />
friend her on Facebook.<br />
Cathy Hall Stopher has used<br />
her COVID time wisely—playing<br />
virtual bridge, reading books and<br />
finishing puzzles. Like my neighborhood,<br />
she meets her neighbors<br />
outside for lunch keeping a social<br />
distance. She can’t see her five grandchildren—twin<br />
boys (four), two other<br />
boys and a granddaughter (nine).<br />
Of special note, she and husband Ed<br />
celebrated their 50th anniversary.<br />
Also celebrating a 50th anniversary<br />
are Ginny and John Perdue. (I<br />
Four MDs from the Class of 1969: Avis Brown Yount, Martha Brewer,<br />
Elizabeth Lewis Thier and Claudette Harloe Dalton<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Ginny Stanford Perdue ’69 and<br />
husband of 50 years, John<br />
think many of you who married the<br />
year after we graduated must also be<br />
marking this wonderful milestone!)<br />
Ginny and John moved several years<br />
ago into a smaller place and keep<br />
their granddaughter many days. I<br />
can’t let this opportunity pass to let<br />
you all know the red hair is gone in<br />
favor of silver. And she is still beautiful!<br />
It was nice to hear from Peggy<br />
Davis Molander all the way from<br />
Portland, OR. She and Eric have<br />
weathered the COVID storm so<br />
far using Zoom and other media to<br />
keep in touch with family. She has<br />
become an avid golfer during the<br />
pandemic also. Good use of time!<br />
Martha Brewer managed to<br />
both move homes in Atlanta and<br />
have a knee repair procedure during<br />
COVID! I hear she is recovering<br />
well and that she and Anna love their<br />
new home! Leave it to Martha to be<br />
an overachiever.<br />
Also celebrating a safe summer<br />
is Jan Sheets Jones. She and Jimmy<br />
have sheltered at Tybee Island,<br />
their summer retreat. As many of<br />
you know, the Georgia governor<br />
and his mayors were not all on the<br />
same page, leading to chaos for many<br />
on the right rules to follow. So, Jan<br />
and Jimmy took the cautious road<br />
and are OK so far although Jimmy<br />
is bored I hear.<br />
In October 2019, Mary Mahan<br />
Marco got together for a mini-reunion<br />
with Midge Yearley, Carolyn<br />
Jones Elstner, Sally Boucher Megeath,<br />
Ruthie Hoopes, Sue Roessel<br />
Gibson and Phyllis Girard. This<br />
was especially lovely since none of<br />
them were able to go to reunion.<br />
Mary reports that the Philadelphia<br />
metro area was hard hit in the early<br />
spring but doing much better<br />
now. She and Bob have been riding<br />
out the pandemic near the beach at<br />
their house in Lewes, DE, and only<br />
occasionally going back to check on<br />
things at the house in West Chester,<br />
PA. Like everyone else, they miss<br />
seeing their grandchildren, being<br />
able to travel and taking part in other<br />
social activities. She hopes that those<br />
vaccines in trial will get us out of this<br />
mess.<br />
Our most faithful classmate is<br />
Betsy Blackwell Laundon who<br />
Class of 1969 gathering in Philadelphia includes Mary Mahan Marco,<br />
Midge Yearley, Carolyn Jones Elstner, Sally Boucher Megeath Ruthie<br />
Hoopes, Sue Roessel Gibson and Phyllis Girard<br />
writes from Lynchburg where her<br />
ill husband, Mike, has been in lockdown<br />
since mid-March. His speech<br />
difficulties make FaceTime difficult,<br />
so they are very isolated from each<br />
other. So sad! She has kept busy<br />
making masks and buttoned extenders<br />
to help the nurses keep the mask<br />
elastic off their ears. On their behalf,<br />
I send my thanks. After decades of<br />
mask wearing as an anesthesiologist,<br />
I can attest to the wear and tear on<br />
your face, ears and hair!<br />
Our wonderful Nancy Crawford<br />
Bent also sends news. Like me, she<br />
lives in a rural area and so risks are<br />
less but even in western MA where<br />
they moved three years ago, they are<br />
battling the fallout from COVID.<br />
Her son lost his job, the son’s fatherin-law<br />
is an ER doc (OK so far)<br />
and a sister-in-law got anaplasmosis<br />
from a tick. So, the normal day-today<br />
risks persist as well as the extra<br />
burden of the coronavirus. Keep persevering<br />
everyone!<br />
Jane Merriam Wickens moved<br />
to the Charlottesville area recently to<br />
be closer to daughter Amanda. She is<br />
working on her bare garden between<br />
trips to Cape Cod to their home<br />
there. The trips are carefully timed<br />
to avoid COVID risks and not as<br />
often as Jane would prefer. Still, she<br />
keeps busy with her husband’s five<br />
children, 14 grandchildren and five<br />
great-grandchildren plus her two<br />
children and six grandchildren! (Is<br />
this a record for our class? Anyone<br />
have more?)<br />
On a sad note, I must add some<br />
news of deceased classmates. In this<br />
case, both transferred out of SBC<br />
and graduated elsewhere, but if anyone<br />
wants more information or to<br />
reach the families, just let me know.<br />
Adele Perry Hart died in May in<br />
Fort Worth. She was a University<br />
of Texas at Austin grad. She and her<br />
husband, Mark, had been married<br />
for over 50 years. Also in May, Mary<br />
Ann Kilpatrick Russell died in Virginia<br />
Beach, VA. After graduating<br />
from Emory, she taught French for<br />
many years.<br />
As one of the five docs in our<br />
class, Avis Brown Yount (dermatology),<br />
Martha Brewer (ob-gyn),<br />
Elizabeth Lewis Thier (psychiatry),<br />
Mary Lee Bell Coffey (emergency<br />
medicin), and me, Claudette, (anesthesiology).<br />
I especially hope everyone is staying<br />
safe and well. I encourage you to<br />
listen to your doctors and ignore the<br />
politicians. We are a terrific class and<br />
I want to be sharing news of all of<br />
you for many, many more years.<br />
Finally, my guess is that the next<br />
deadline for news is January, 2021.<br />
Feel free to send news any time!<br />
1970<br />
Kris Herzog<br />
20060 Tavernier Dr.<br />
Estero, FL 33928<br />
kherzogart.hotmail.com<br />
Hi all, oh goodness, what a year!<br />
Boy, I was not all that impressed<br />
with 2019, but I would now take it<br />
back. Except that if we did, I suspect<br />
we would just have to do this one all<br />
over again. Better to keep one foot in<br />
front of the other. Going forward.<br />
At least I think so. I’ll let you know<br />
next year. Please, if you are up to it,<br />
do think about reaching out to classmates.<br />
Many of us are struggling if<br />
not with this bug, then with the<br />
distancing thing. Not to mention<br />
the usual life issues we all deal with<br />
at this age, bug or not. You can get<br />
contact info through the SBC banner<br />
site, or if that is too much trouble<br />
send a note to me or the alumnae<br />
office, and we will forward it. We all<br />
need each other.<br />
First a shout-out to those who<br />
have written about battling the virus.<br />
Stuart Davenport Simrill<br />
checked in. “Well, it’s been rough.<br />
After separating ourselves since<br />
March 12, we both came down with<br />
COVID. Spenser comes home from<br />
the hospital today which is a blessing.<br />
Before we got sick the gardens<br />
were fantastic. We were playing golf<br />
most days, very socially distant. I<br />
was making masks for everyone. No<br />
telling where this came from. Our<br />
daughter, Helen, and her precious<br />
family moved back home to Atlanta<br />
after getting the virus in LA, and<br />
then they caught it again from us! So<br />
much to learn! We are surrounded<br />
by love and nurturing friends. I think<br />
my biggest heart opening has been<br />
the connections between humility<br />
and gratitude. When you get emptied<br />
there is only room for love left.”<br />
Baird Hunter Campbell and Bill<br />
have been sequestered at home in the<br />
Hilton Head area since early March.<br />
“I think my biceps/rotator cuff repair<br />
was the last elective surgery per-<br />
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formed at our local hospital before<br />
COVID hit. The eight weeks I was<br />
forced to wear a sling went quickly,<br />
from a psychological standpoint, because<br />
I wasn’t missing anything. All<br />
my usual activities were cancelled.<br />
Thank goodness the golf courses did<br />
not close so Bill had something to do<br />
every day! My six months of physical<br />
therapy end in mid-Sept.; so perhaps<br />
things will be close to normal<br />
by then. I hope you and your families<br />
are all doing as well as possible<br />
during this memorable time.”<br />
Susan Holbrook Daly and Skip,<br />
both had COVID in March. “He<br />
brought it home from his physical<br />
therapist after his knee replacement<br />
in Jan. We were so lucky not to have<br />
been hospitalized but were very sick<br />
for a solid two weeks. Nothing to<br />
fool around with. Fortunately, we are<br />
now back in good health. My shop<br />
is slowly reopening by appointment<br />
and he is playing golf. The 18th of<br />
July marks our 50th anniversary!<br />
Thankful for good health and family!”<br />
And as if all their struggles<br />
weren’t enough, Lorie Harris<br />
Amass sent a heartbreaking note:<br />
“My husband passed away at the<br />
end of March. We were at our lake<br />
house in MT, and I stayed there<br />
alone for two months, enjoying<br />
peace, solitude and nature. Then<br />
I felt ready to come back to my<br />
thoughtful friends in Denver and<br />
am experiencing much of what I had<br />
missed out on while taking care of<br />
dear Bill. And everyone’s brain seems<br />
to be as discombobulated as mine!”<br />
Most of us, if physically healthy,<br />
are just simply staying home and<br />
contemplating the sounds of silence,<br />
as someone once said, or learning to<br />
use Zoom.<br />
Page Kjelstrom sums it up best<br />
for many of us. “I really don’t think I<br />
have anything interesting to say. Just<br />
pretty much quarantined in FL doing<br />
the same things others are doing.”<br />
Diane McCabe Reid is also<br />
quarantined in FL. “Hope you are all<br />
well and safe in these crazy COVID<br />
times! We are fine in Palm Beach but<br />
every day seems the same. Like the<br />
movie Groundhog Day! Wake up,<br />
have coffee, walk the dogs, spend the<br />
day in the pool. Hard to believe it is<br />
almost Aug.!”<br />
Susie McGrath Slate is hanging<br />
out with Jim and their dog, Charlie,<br />
Druid stone building built by Laura Sickman Baksa ’70<br />
Johanna Yaple Wolski ’70,<br />
husband and grandchildren, pre-<br />
COVID<br />
at home, “self-quarantining as much<br />
as possible. It’s not much fun, but<br />
we’re getting along okay. We can always<br />
FaceTime family and friends.<br />
Hope all is well with my 1970 classmates!”<br />
Kate Schlech also uses her computer<br />
to keep busy after she had to<br />
cancel her three-week African safari.<br />
She is “playing some online bridge<br />
with old friends from the DOJ about<br />
once a week and schedules some<br />
more or less regular Zoom calls<br />
with friends. That’s about it. Terribly<br />
missing my volunteer work at the<br />
Library of Congress and at my local<br />
library. Doing some research on an<br />
obscure topic, 15th and 16th century<br />
printers’ marks, just to keep the gray<br />
cells synapsing. Lots of reading but<br />
all lightweight fare. That’s about all<br />
for now. Hope this finds you all safe,<br />
sane and healthy.”<br />
Johanna Yaple Wolski and her<br />
family “have been at home due to<br />
coronavirus for a long time. NJ has<br />
things under control now.” She has<br />
sent along a happy family photo<br />
from pre-COVID times.<br />
Deb Jones says, “We are well,<br />
happily. Life is currently eat, walk,<br />
read and repeat. The days pass easily<br />
and so far, we’ve not gained an<br />
ounce.”<br />
Personally, I have more than a<br />
few ounces I can lend Deb if she is<br />
feeling deprived. Come to think of it<br />
many of us can loan her a few so she<br />
can catch up by reunion. What are<br />
friends for?<br />
Ann Gateley and Ira are hunkered<br />
down with their handsome<br />
grey feline, Boris, who is 14 but<br />
thinks he’s four months. “He is a<br />
good companion for us. My days are<br />
all identical, like my life is the movie<br />
Groundhog Day. We canceled 5 trips<br />
this spring and are hanging on for<br />
travel to open up. Katie McCardell<br />
Webb and I are retiring as fundraisers<br />
after five years. I think we hit the<br />
participation high for the 70s.”<br />
Let’s give Ann and Katie a huge<br />
round of thanks for their tireless efforts<br />
on behalf of our class and the<br />
<strong>College</strong>.<br />
Pat Swinney Kaufman reported<br />
from one of our first epicenters. “Lock<br />
down in NYC has been uneventful<br />
or eventful based on one’s point<br />
of view. I’ve been retired for several<br />
years so no work from home issues<br />
here. But I do miss the constant travel<br />
with my husband that had become<br />
our way of life. So, looking forward<br />
to that part of life returning someday.<br />
Best parts of the week are Zoom<br />
calls, one official call per day with<br />
various groups of friends. My favorite<br />
is with Mary Jane Hipp Brock,<br />
Fran Griffith Laserson and Eleanor<br />
Albert whom we’ve declared an adopted<br />
SBC alum. The hardest part of<br />
COVID lockdown is not seeing our<br />
three daughters and our two adorable<br />
grandchildren. We did finally<br />
gather the gang together in a house<br />
upstate for two glorious weeks with<br />
our own little pod. Sadly, youngest<br />
daughter, Charlotte, couldn’t join as<br />
she is immersed in a documentary<br />
she is filming in AL. I’m also happy<br />
to be in touch with Kim Mitchell<br />
Bethea and Maggie Cooper Tyner.<br />
Had hoped to organize a rendezvous<br />
and then COVID struck! Hope all<br />
of you are staying healthy and safe<br />
and able to keep your loved ones<br />
nearby.” Pat adds that “last summer<br />
I was visiting daughter Charlotte in<br />
Alabama and we went to see Kitty<br />
Litchfeild Seale in her beautiful<br />
home in Montgomery where she<br />
was convalescing from a devastating<br />
return of breast cancer. We had<br />
a wonderful and extended visit with<br />
Kitty and her husband and daughter.<br />
Sadly, she passed away perhaps<br />
a month later. But she was as funny<br />
and wonderful as ever: Kitty as we<br />
all remember her.”<br />
Sadly, we also just lost our classmate<br />
Eleanor “Missy” Marshall<br />
in May. Please check the memorial<br />
page in this magazine or contact the<br />
alumnae office for more information<br />
if you wish to contact her family.<br />
Speaking for all of us, Kay Parham<br />
Picha was disappointed by the<br />
cancellation of reunion and everything<br />
else she had planned. But she<br />
has managed to convert disappointment<br />
into something cherished.<br />
“In mid-March we took our eightyear-old<br />
grandson to the beach for<br />
his spring break. Then school was<br />
cancelled, so we kept him for two<br />
months. I taught remote first grade,<br />
and David was the P.E. teacher. At<br />
one point the beach closed for two<br />
weeks so we could look at it and hear<br />
the ocean but not step on the sand.<br />
It was a special time to share with<br />
him, hunkered down just the three<br />
of us. We had ice cream after dinner<br />
nightly, and he chose to sit in one of<br />
our laps. Lap sitting will end soon, so<br />
we sat very still for long periods. We<br />
made a special lifetime memory.”<br />
Karen Hartnett and George also<br />
found a way to escape with grandchildren.<br />
“Life at the GK Ranch<br />
hasn’t changed all that much with<br />
self-quarantine. I guess we were<br />
already hermits before the virus.<br />
We’ve loosened up enough that kids<br />
and grandkids have been out to the<br />
pool several times on Memorial Day,<br />
birthdays and the like. However,<br />
George and I acknowledged this<br />
month we needed to find different<br />
scenery for at least a few days. We<br />
ventured 90-minutes north of Houston<br />
to Margaritaville at Lake Conroe.<br />
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Buffet songs around the property!<br />
In August, we’ll drive down to Galveston<br />
to gaze at the Gulf from the<br />
10th floor of a new high rise—different<br />
scenery, too. Hope everyone<br />
will come back for 50th+1 next May.<br />
Stay safe and healthy.”<br />
Elsa Jones Forter gets the prize<br />
for the best escape. She is “surviving<br />
the virus so far by social distancing<br />
on our 36-foot sailboat with a 12-<br />
day trip to the vineyard and Cape.<br />
Next, we’re off cruising to ME and<br />
points down east. Hope all are well.”<br />
And a few more of us have explored<br />
new creative endeavors, finding<br />
ways to keep busy. Perhaps the<br />
most unique project comes from<br />
Laura Sickman Baksa who explains<br />
that she and Joan are keeping busy<br />
doing gardening and yard work of<br />
various kinds. “In our back woods<br />
is a field of ferns and I am building<br />
small Celtic-looking stone buildings.<br />
I think I am channeling an ancient<br />
Druid community. If you can’t get to<br />
Europe in the pandemic you have to<br />
recreate it in your backyard.” I hope<br />
Laura’s photo makes it into the magazine,<br />
her small building looks positively<br />
enchanting.<br />
Jane Gott is always doing something<br />
creative, pandemic or not.<br />
“We have stayed at home by choice<br />
since March. I have kept myself busy<br />
taking online painting courses and<br />
found I prefer these classes by Zoom<br />
because I do not have to commute<br />
in DC traffic or travel to another<br />
state to take a workshop. We lost<br />
our three senior cats in the last two<br />
years and rescued two kittens in Feb.<br />
who keep us amused. Our next-door<br />
neighbor is expecting a baby girl in<br />
a couple of weeks. I cannot wait to<br />
adopt her since we have no grandchildren.<br />
Over the winter months I<br />
made three quilts and enjoyed collecting<br />
fabric to make them. One<br />
cannot have too many fabrics or art<br />
supplies. Knitting keeps me busy,<br />
too. Ron has back surgery scheduled<br />
for early Aug. It will take several<br />
months for him to convalesce and do<br />
physical therapy. I admit that I am<br />
tired of cooking. Looking forward to<br />
our reunion and other events.”<br />
And Mardane Rebentisch Mc-<br />
Lemore has also gotten creative<br />
about how to manage her favorite<br />
pastime. “COVID has provided me<br />
the unique opportunity to play golf<br />
by myself. I’m my own foursome.<br />
The practice has greatly improved<br />
my game and I’m loving it. Parents<br />
are in a real bind, having to work despite<br />
camps and schools being cancelled.<br />
So, I’m helping out with my<br />
grandchildren—fortunately, I have<br />
been able to go to the beach for five<br />
weeks—off and on—that has been a<br />
super help as sometimes it’s hard to<br />
keep up!”<br />
Nia Eldridge Eaton unexpectedly<br />
has a lot going on. “I’m two years<br />
into retirement and was enjoying my<br />
time as a docent at both Winterthur<br />
and the Brandywine River Conservancy<br />
and Museum. These two<br />
organizations remind me of <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>, they challenge my mind and<br />
soothe my soul. There’s not a day I<br />
don’t learn something. Closed until<br />
recently, both have used Zoom<br />
to put on programs that are informative,<br />
educational and fun. Our<br />
roles as docents are being re-imagined<br />
to support public safety. I give<br />
these institutions credit for moving<br />
outside the box, not normally the<br />
sweet spot for museums. I am back<br />
at Brandywine now as an ambassador<br />
and start again at Winterthur in<br />
Sept. I was also volunteering at our<br />
local hospital gift shop and my last<br />
act right before the shutdown was<br />
working at the Philadelphia Flower<br />
Show, the largest indoor show in the<br />
world. Interacting with the public is<br />
always a hoot and the show really<br />
gives you a welcome kick into spring.<br />
My 10-year-old boxer and I quarantine<br />
at home, walking in the neighborhood<br />
or to the supermarket. Like<br />
most folks, I’m having time to go<br />
through closets and drawers. But in<br />
this blurry time, it’s taking me longer<br />
to do less. I’m learning some patience<br />
and don’t have a sense of urgency. I’m<br />
not running out to get things and<br />
have instead found alternatives or<br />
that the need just evaporates.”<br />
Betty Rau Santandrea is keeping<br />
very busy indeed. “In spite of<br />
COVID, I am enjoying hiking,<br />
summer lap swimming in our neighborhood<br />
pool by reservation, Zoom<br />
gentle stretch yoga, and the Zia<br />
Singers creation of virtual choral videos.<br />
(Check out As We Sing on You-<br />
Tube). Also taking Babbel Italian in<br />
hopes that one day we can return to<br />
Bernalda, Basilicata, in southern Italy<br />
where my husband Bob’s grandparents<br />
were born. Take-out food in<br />
Santa Fe is very good as many of our<br />
400 restaurants struggle to continue.<br />
What makes us sad is that we are<br />
2000 miles from our five grandchildren,<br />
so we only see them on Face-<br />
Time. We have had to cancel two<br />
summer trips back east to see them.<br />
Hope to attend reunion next May.”<br />
Really do check out Betty’s choral<br />
group on YouTube. It’s delightful.<br />
Joanne Hicks Robblee has some<br />
good news for all of us from her<br />
recent escape trip! “On Saturday<br />
July 11, Paul and I headed over to<br />
Lynchburg and we had enough time<br />
to drive around <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. It was a<br />
beautiful day and the college looked<br />
amazing! The last time we visited<br />
was about four years ago and our impression<br />
then was that things were<br />
pretty run down. That visit made<br />
my heart hurt. After Saturday’s visit<br />
I am impressed with the effort the<br />
administration and staff are putting<br />
into rebuilding <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. So glad<br />
the alums made it possible to meet<br />
our fundraising goal!”<br />
And from me, Kristin Herzog,<br />
I’m stuck in FL, too, having moved<br />
here three years ago. I have joked that<br />
living in FL is fun but feels very much<br />
like living on Mars. That’s become<br />
more true than ever. A wild burst of<br />
company from Europe in late winter<br />
brought me tardy, but miraculously<br />
safe, to this quarantine thing.<br />
Frankly for artists, getting unlimited<br />
time to just hide out and paint<br />
is truly wondrous. I also cut a deal<br />
with my national online art store to<br />
do product demos on YouTube, forgetting<br />
to mention that I, um… had<br />
entirely no clue how to do that. So,<br />
my first COVID month was spent<br />
teaching myself iMovie and going<br />
into the depths of despair every time<br />
my little opus disappeared mysteriously<br />
into computer ether never to<br />
be seen again. But I finally mastered<br />
it and am now a little YouTube star<br />
along with Betty. I have eight videos<br />
up under Kris Paints. After that, my<br />
Zoom yoga teacher suggested we<br />
students write a poem, which I found<br />
completely ludicrous. I don’t write<br />
poems. I’ve never written one. Added<br />
to the fact that I probably have a<br />
good 10 friends from VCCA who<br />
are all professional award-winning<br />
nationally-known poets. But since<br />
this is a time of doing new things I<br />
gradually thought well what the hell,<br />
and wrote a poem, by which time<br />
my joy in getting to paint all alone<br />
with the cats for weeks on end had<br />
totally worn out and I began moping<br />
dawn to dusk like all my friends. So<br />
now we Skype and Zoom with each<br />
other, we have an art critique group<br />
going, and I’m back to being busy<br />
getting work done for my museum<br />
show this coming Jan. Learning to<br />
love what I’m doing and accept that<br />
things go up and down is always<br />
the hard part. I’ve realized my parents<br />
went through the Depression<br />
and WWII. My grandparents went<br />
through those and WWI. So OK,<br />
we can do a year or two of this virus<br />
thing. And someday we will wake up<br />
like Rip Van Winkle and find we are<br />
in a brave new world.<br />
And before I close, if you<br />
aren’t familiar with some recent nifty<br />
news from SBC, do check the links<br />
on the <strong>College</strong> website. <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
has sold Mt. San Angelo to VCCA<br />
which is a completely wonderful<br />
move for all concerned. VCCA is<br />
now on solid ground and after all<br />
these years can plot a future. Miraculously<br />
a Georgia O’Keeffe painting<br />
facilitated the sale.<br />
And second, SBC is in all the national<br />
news that discusses COVID<br />
and colleges because we are brilliantly<br />
marketing our biggest asset: space!<br />
We are probably the only college that<br />
can actually offer each student her<br />
own acre or two plus a single room,<br />
so enrollment is up! This is really a<br />
fabulous turn of events. If FL lets me<br />
out by May I’ll see you all at reunion!<br />
I can’t wait. Take care of yourselves<br />
and your loved ones. Remember to<br />
love yourself. Open your heart. Stay<br />
safe. Wear masks. The sun will come<br />
up. And tomorrow is another year.<br />
1971<br />
Mary Frances Oakey Aiken<br />
jmaiken4@me.com<br />
Anne Milbank Mell<br />
anne.mell@yahoo.com<br />
Beverly Van Zandt<br />
beverlyvz@gmail.com<br />
Thanks for all the great updates!<br />
It is hard to believe that next spring<br />
is our 50th reunion. The dates have<br />
been set for May 28-30, 2021. Please<br />
mark your calendars and come if you<br />
can! It will be great to catch up with<br />
each other in person and share memories!<br />
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Carol Remington Foglesong has<br />
enjoyed her “mostly solitary, stay-put,<br />
stay-safe COVID-19” home bubble.<br />
Lots of reading, movie watching,<br />
work for the Orange County League<br />
of Women Voters, multiple Zoom<br />
calls, and intermittent dinners with<br />
her son and his family. Her May-June<br />
<strong>2020</strong> British Isles cruise with three<br />
friends was postponed until 2021.<br />
Carol anticipates her long-awaited,<br />
much-needed back fusion surgery<br />
(darn stenosis, aka arthritis, in her<br />
spine) if COVID-19 doesn’t interfere<br />
with the scheduling. She is still<br />
getting used to the new normal and<br />
masks everywhere.<br />
Nesi Wisell O’Connor traveled<br />
to New Zealand and Melbourne for<br />
a month just before the lockdown.<br />
She returned home to Longwood,<br />
FL, to find that her kitchen renovation<br />
was not complete—no appliances,<br />
etc., and she then spent most<br />
of the lockdown period finishing<br />
this major project. With a positive<br />
attitude, she reported that “it was a<br />
good distraction over the past few<br />
months.” Nesi is looking forward to<br />
reunion, and she and Alix Smith<br />
have already rented a house for it.<br />
“See you in 2021.”<br />
Jacque Penny reports all good<br />
here, and it’s such a crazy time. She<br />
continues to care for her mum who<br />
is over 92. Jacque spends her days<br />
painting, walking, swimming, reading,<br />
meditating, playing piano and<br />
caring for her mum. She tries to stay<br />
positive and hope for the best. Jacque<br />
also notes that the whole racial<br />
unrest has been amazing and a long<br />
time coming. She hopes that we get<br />
some reforms and prays for change<br />
and peace. Last year she managed a<br />
cruise from Portugal around Spain<br />
to celebrate her 70th. She loved<br />
Spain, especially Valencia and Barcelona.<br />
Then just before COVID-19<br />
hit, Jacque, Louise Dempsey, Kathy<br />
Wilson, Maureen Conway and<br />
Cami Crocker had a mini reunion.<br />
She hopes all will plan to be at our<br />
50th reunion! In the meantime, be<br />
well and happy and stay in touch.<br />
Life is short—even if it’s long.<br />
Louise Archer Slater has been in<br />
her garden most of the time over the<br />
past 6 months. “We have suddenly<br />
become a very sunny garden after<br />
losing a huge old oak that has shaded<br />
our property for the past 100+<br />
years. Implementing the change<br />
from shade to sun in the very hot<br />
south is a time-consuming project.<br />
Currently, I am improvising small<br />
solid color umbrellas in strategic<br />
points as the temps get hotter and<br />
hotter. We had a packed year of travel<br />
which did not happen, but we have<br />
had the great pleasure of celebrating<br />
our 50th wedding anniversary with a<br />
drive-by organized by our children<br />
and champagne with a few friends in<br />
our garden. By far the most exciting<br />
event has been the birth of our second<br />
granddaughter, Laurel Adeline<br />
Slater, on June 24 of this year. Her<br />
almost three-year-old sister, Audrey,<br />
spent a while with us which was<br />
great fun and a bit more of a challenge<br />
in the time of COVID. We are<br />
all healthy, happy and very thankful<br />
to be alive.”<br />
Claire Kinnett Tate says there<br />
is not much to report here in this<br />
time of COVID-19. Thankfully all<br />
of her loved ones are healthy. Son<br />
Austin and his family live close by in<br />
Charlotte. However, daughter Bright<br />
and her family live in New Zealand!<br />
John’s sister lives there. Her five siblings<br />
are spread around. She and<br />
John are very thankful for FaceTime<br />
and Zoom. Biggest recent news was<br />
her 70th birthday last May!<br />
Jill Lowry Wiemer is missing<br />
all the snuggles and hugs from her<br />
grandchildren. Lots of Zoom and<br />
FaceTime is having to do for now.<br />
She is enjoying bridge online using<br />
Zoom plus a bridge app at the same<br />
time so they can chat and play. She<br />
is lifting up prayers every day for the<br />
world, our country and all the medical<br />
personnel, especially her two<br />
daughters (an ICU nurse in a major<br />
hospital and a nurse practitioner in<br />
an urgent care facility) that are faceto-face<br />
with COVID-19 every time<br />
they go to work. She is thankful they<br />
have a summer getaway in Highlands,<br />
NC, which has provided relief<br />
from all that is going on. Prayers,<br />
golf, croquet and walks with a little<br />
online bridge keep her busy. She<br />
counts her blessings every day and<br />
prays for the many people in need<br />
of so much and those who have lost<br />
loved ones to this insidious disease.<br />
She urges everyone to help be part of<br />
the solution and wear a mask whenever<br />
you come in contact with others.<br />
Amanda Megargee Sutton enjoyed<br />
a 70th birthday get together<br />
in Destin, FL, in early Feb. with<br />
Just before COVID-19 hit, Jacque Penny ’71, Louise Dempsey McKean ’71,<br />
Kathy Wilson Lamb ’71, Maureen Conway ’71 and Cami Crocker<br />
Wodehouse ’71 had a mini reunion<br />
Wendy Weiss Smith ’71 and<br />
husband in Bermuda<br />
Trixie Hatten Chambers ’71 with<br />
Laura Willets Evans ’81 and Nancy<br />
Webb Corkery ’81<br />
Brooke Thomas Dold, Frances<br />
Barnes Kennamer and Martha Roton<br />
Terry. Amanda was 70 on Jan.<br />
31, and Brooke was 71 on Feb. 13 so<br />
there was a short window to get together<br />
when they were all 70! Amanda<br />
and Goody have been enjoying<br />
time together in their garden, baking<br />
bread, knitting, reading, sorting and<br />
throwing out stuff. The pool at her Y<br />
finally reopened in June and she has<br />
been there every other day. She also<br />
went to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Day at Wendy<br />
Weiler’s daughter’s home and enjoyed<br />
it so much.<br />
Anne Milbank Mell, like everyone<br />
else, has been sheltered at home<br />
in NJ, playing bridge on an online<br />
app, Zooming with friends and family<br />
and walking her two pups. Actually,<br />
one belongs to her son, who normally<br />
lives in NYC. John and family<br />
left NYC April 4 to drive to OH and<br />
live with her younger daughter and<br />
her family. The eight have managed<br />
to make it work and her son added<br />
a little buckeye/third daughter to his<br />
family at the end of May. The MI/<br />
OH State rivalry in the future will<br />
take on new meaning! Meanwhile,<br />
out west, her older daughter is taking<br />
advantage of time to get a puppy and<br />
keep her boys active hiking, playing<br />
tennis and golf! She is unsure when<br />
she will next see any of them, but, in<br />
the meantime, she has four lifetimes’<br />
worth of projects to work on!<br />
Beryl Bergquist spoke at the<br />
<strong>2020</strong> American Immigration Lawyers<br />
Association conference planned<br />
for San Diego but went virtual due<br />
to the pandemic. She practices immigration<br />
law and renovates houses<br />
for sale or lease on the side. The<br />
latest, a seven-bedroom, three-bath<br />
reno turned into a six-bedroom with<br />
master suite, four-bath house that<br />
closed socially distanced in cars at<br />
curbside! The new normal is Zoom<br />
consultations, sheltering in place<br />
with Duolingo to learn Spanish and<br />
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flower gardening until work in the<br />
Fernbank Forest reopens, her favorite<br />
Atlanta volunteer project.<br />
Shannon Salmon is very proud<br />
of the progress being made at <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> and sends kudos to all who<br />
have committed to the <strong>College</strong> and<br />
its future as a first-rate institution!<br />
Shannon and her family had a<br />
fabulous 2019 trip to Rome and<br />
Lucca. Fifteen family members<br />
joined Shannon and her husband for<br />
a week in Lucca at a villa where they<br />
dined, drank and enjoyed each other’s<br />
company. Ages ranged from four<br />
to 75. Since COVID-19 entered the<br />
scene, Shannon and her family have<br />
stayed close to home in MD.<br />
Judy Brown Fletcher moved to<br />
a newer house 18 months ago and<br />
since then has had both knees replaced.<br />
She is still fine tuning the<br />
1958, traditional house to their<br />
needs, most recently having 11 raised<br />
beds built so that she can go back to<br />
growing veggies. She’s also planted<br />
two Southern Magnolia trees and<br />
moved endless plants the previous<br />
owner put in the wrong locations:<br />
hostas in sun, roses and peonies in<br />
deep shade. Very interesting mistakes,<br />
to be sure. She is in the process<br />
of replacing worn lawn with white<br />
clover. The bees are thrilled and it<br />
stays reliably green despite increasingly<br />
hot summers. As for the house,<br />
she has kept the plumbers busy,<br />
rerouting plumbing and replacing<br />
pipes: the usual headaches that go<br />
with an older house. They have been<br />
staying home because of COVID<br />
but staying busy with all of the projects.<br />
She hopes that by next spring it<br />
will be safe to travel to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
for our 50th celebration!<br />
Alix Smith hopes that all our<br />
classmates are COVID-free and not<br />
too stressed. She is very proud of<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s handling of the crisis<br />
and is excited that the enrollment<br />
goal for next year has been met.<br />
Alix actually enjoyed her quarantine<br />
along with her cat. Now her recipes,<br />
family photos, memorabilia, and<br />
collections are the most organized<br />
they have ever been. She averaged<br />
five-six books a month, her garden<br />
looks tended, and she learned how to<br />
Zoom and conference through Facebook<br />
Messenger. Alex hopes that we<br />
can be together for our 50th reunion.<br />
“We will have much to celebrate!”<br />
Bev Van Zandt reports that the<br />
high points of this past nine months<br />
have been her two new grandsons.<br />
Skip joined Beverly, Tom and Evangeline<br />
in Charleston, and Steele<br />
arrived a little early to Roberta and<br />
Chris in NYC. Bev enjoyed two visits<br />
with each family before heading<br />
home to San Miguel de Allende just<br />
as the borders closed. Bev reports<br />
that the SMA lockdown has been<br />
much like those in the U.S. She and<br />
a friend began a colonia (neighborhood)<br />
food project. Donors have<br />
been very generous, and despensas of<br />
food are now given out to those who<br />
have lost jobs due to the pandemic.<br />
These sustain over 100 people. Bev<br />
can’t wait for our 50th reunion. She<br />
encourages everyone to start planning<br />
a return road trip to SBC.<br />
Carolyn Tuttle Murray notes<br />
how much has changed in such a<br />
short time. She still is adjusting to<br />
widowhood and lives in the small<br />
town of Reidsville, NC. Her daughter<br />
and her husband have three children<br />
and her son and his wife have<br />
two children. Prior to the pandemic,<br />
Carolyn was spending as much time<br />
as she could with her grandchildren<br />
and could also visit her 100-year-old<br />
mother in AL. Times have definitely<br />
changed. On a lighter note, Carolyn<br />
feels like she celebrated turning 70<br />
for about the entire year last year<br />
with a wonderful party given by her<br />
children and trips to NY (with her<br />
daughter and granddaughter), FL<br />
(to see Diana Zeidel), and Canyon<br />
Ranch (with Diana and Mimi Pitts<br />
Dixon). Carolyn ends her class note<br />
with “Let’s hope we will all be back<br />
to a semblance of a normal life soon!”<br />
Andrea Bateman is still alive and<br />
working. Her sister and most of her<br />
family are in north FL now. She went<br />
to Miami for work several times but,<br />
unfortunately, never saw Ellen. She<br />
likes our growing SBC club.<br />
Wendy Weiss Smith’s Mom<br />
celebrated her 103rd birthday last<br />
summer with her ’74 SBC twin<br />
sisters and family; yes, her mother<br />
is in the same multi-level house in<br />
which they grew up, and yes, she<br />
endures snowy/icy winters. Teaching<br />
English-as-a-second-language to<br />
professionals from different cultures<br />
continues to be lots of fun. Living<br />
in Durham, NC, offers many diversions:<br />
symphony, ballet, Duke basketball,<br />
modern dance festival.<br />
Having a retired husband (of<br />
43+ years) means an abundance of<br />
travel: Cuba, Portugal and Ecuador<br />
this past year; Susan Greenwald<br />
explored with them on the first two<br />
which were W&L excursions; fun<br />
eight-gal trip to Philadelphia for art<br />
and history and Longwood Garden;<br />
a couple of reunions for her husband<br />
in Charlottesville and Chicago, while<br />
her unofficial high school one was<br />
back in northern OH. She is engaged<br />
with several Duke women’s groups<br />
plus a garden club and volunteering<br />
at Duke Gardens. Almost enough<br />
time in each day, right? Durham,<br />
NC, has proved a wonderful place to<br />
be at the moment as they are walking<br />
along streams in deciduous woods<br />
daily, then entertaining friends in the<br />
yard or on the screened porch.<br />
Wendy Norton Brown sadly<br />
reports that her husband, Lee, was<br />
diagnosed with Alzheimer’s six years<br />
ago and goes to an adult day center<br />
three days a week. Due to the<br />
pandemic, he was back home 24/7<br />
for 14 weeks last spring which was<br />
difficult, but the center has now reopened.<br />
It has been hard not being<br />
able to see their grandchildren often<br />
but she knows it has been hard<br />
on their parents too, since both are<br />
trying to work from home with a<br />
toddler and three siblings ages five,<br />
seven, and nine.<br />
Pam Henery Arey has been<br />
moving forward with disassembling<br />
her household with the hope of<br />
listing her property in spring 2021.<br />
While she loves living on Cypress<br />
Creek, the upkeep has become too<br />
much and detracts from the enjoyment.<br />
Now that she’s begun the<br />
clean-out in earnest with the help of<br />
her four children, it’s not so bad. She<br />
is still president of the local board of<br />
the senior activities center, but that<br />
has been closed since mid-March.<br />
The building continues to be used<br />
as child care for essential workers<br />
during the pandemic. Her son, a<br />
health care worker in PA, quarantined<br />
at home and thankfully has<br />
recovered from a mild-moderate case<br />
of COVID-19. Looking forward to<br />
keeping in touch for our 50th!<br />
Rhoda Allen Brooks says she<br />
really appreciates all Carol does to<br />
keep us in touch. She loves reading<br />
everyone’s news, though was sad to<br />
hear about Gina and Ellen. Seventy<br />
seems too young to die now that<br />
we’re there!<br />
Andrea Bateman is still alive and<br />
working. Her sister and most of her<br />
family are in north FL now. She went<br />
to Miami for work several times but,<br />
unfortunately, never saw Ellen. She<br />
likes our growing SBC club.<br />
Kathleen “Kathy” Burns Beaudreau<br />
Halperin has traveled from<br />
corporate to certifiable laughter leader<br />
to death doula. While cultivating<br />
seeds of joy on the planet, she intends<br />
to create honor towards the final<br />
journey—a lessening of fear and<br />
an embrace of anticipation, a stepping<br />
into our power as elders—this<br />
is why we are here now.<br />
In January Dee Kysor reported<br />
that she still loved her job as music<br />
director at Grace Episcopal Church<br />
in Goochland, VA. The church and<br />
the choir were growing by leaps and<br />
bounds. The sanctuary is a standalone<br />
building built in 1876. Many<br />
of the original glass panes remain,<br />
and, yes it does have heat and air<br />
conditioning. Her daughter, Jenn<br />
Hebrank, and classmate, Susan<br />
Greenwald came down from Buffalo,<br />
NY, and Hoboken, NJ, to help<br />
celebrate her 70th birthday in October<br />
2019. Jenn’s visit was a complete<br />
surprise! The church had a party for<br />
her, too. And, appropriate for a retired<br />
veterinarian, it happened that<br />
her birthday fell on the Blessing of<br />
the Animals. What a great day! She<br />
also got together briefly at Lewis<br />
Ginter Botanical Gardens with Val<br />
Murphy. The grandkids, Sam (10)<br />
and Maisie (seven) live in Buffalo<br />
and are doing well. She and George<br />
enjoyed a trip out to Las Vegas for a<br />
family wedding in September 2019<br />
and went out a few days early and<br />
drove up to Zion National Park for<br />
some great hiking. Dee’s addendum<br />
this summer is that she and George<br />
are well. As the music director at<br />
her church, she has learned a few<br />
new skills to enhance their online<br />
services. She can now sound pretty<br />
good via Zoom thanks to a new<br />
microphone and some Zoom adjustments.<br />
She never expected to be<br />
a tech nerd at this age. Thank goodness<br />
she turned her old office into a<br />
music studio earlier this year (pre-<br />
COVID). They are now allowed by<br />
the Bishop to have outdoor services<br />
which gives a musician a different set<br />
of problems: one breeze and three<br />
pages turn! Clothespins come in<br />
handy. She tries to stay fit with the<br />
treadmill, and they hike when they<br />
can at a nearby state park. She is using<br />
the time at home to put in a new<br />
perennial border. They are missing<br />
their daughter and her family who<br />
are in Buffalo, NY, but continue to<br />
care for their two horses, three cats<br />
and a dog. No trips planned for now.<br />
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She hopes everyone is staying safe<br />
and healthy.<br />
Barbara Gracey Backer is grateful<br />
for good health, great friends,<br />
meaningful work and much grace<br />
at age 70. She is especially grateful<br />
that her entire family lives close by.<br />
Their two sons, John and David, are<br />
working with her in their insurance<br />
business and their daughter, Katie,<br />
will come in a few months. They<br />
have three grandchildren in Delray<br />
Beach and see them often: Jack<br />
(four), Gracey (two) and Will (three<br />
months) with a grandson due in<br />
Aug. and a granddaughter in Sept.<br />
She and Ron took a trip to southeast<br />
Asia and are now playing lots of<br />
croquet and really enjoying the game.<br />
She is involved in a healing ministry<br />
at her church. “So much to be grateful<br />
for, despite the inevitable challenges<br />
and losses which we all face as<br />
we age.” She sends love and hope for<br />
a great 50th reunion in 2021.<br />
Linda Hill Krensky reports that<br />
life goes on in spite of the pandemic<br />
and her family members have thus<br />
far been fortunate to have stayed<br />
well. Their son, Ben, who is a high<br />
school teacher, has not been working<br />
but his wife, in research at N.I.H.,<br />
is actually working on a vaccine for<br />
COVID-19. Several of their additional<br />
five children have been able to<br />
work from home. Nine of their ten<br />
grandchildren are out of school for<br />
who knows how long. Moshi (one)<br />
is the only one who is oblivious to<br />
all that is going on. Their business,<br />
Country Squire Cleaners, is deemed<br />
essential so they have been able to<br />
remain open and she and her husband<br />
are running it without the<br />
furloughed employees. Economic<br />
improvement may be a few months<br />
away so they are making the best of<br />
it while enjoying spending more time<br />
together. She still has several of her<br />
bookkeeping clients, so is busy everyday<br />
with one job or another. She<br />
hopes all is going well for everyone<br />
and we can actually be close to one<br />
another without masks for the reunion<br />
next spring!<br />
Mary Frances Oakey Aiken alternates<br />
her time between Naples,<br />
FL, and Richmond, VA, where her<br />
children and grandchildren live. Last<br />
spring, she and John were later coming<br />
back to VA due to the closures<br />
with the virus, but they finally braved<br />
the travel by car in June. The traffic<br />
was the lightest on I-95 they have<br />
ever encountered! Since then, lots<br />
of time has been spent organizing at<br />
home, reading, knitting baby hats for<br />
newborns in area hospitals, watching<br />
Netflix, and, her new favorite<br />
pastime, playing the game Mexican<br />
Train with John. Their 25th wedding<br />
anniversary trip of a European<br />
river cruise has been postponed until<br />
next year. How coincidental that<br />
many of the SBC class of ’71 will be<br />
71 at our reunion!<br />
The following class updates are<br />
a synopsis of the notes collected by<br />
Carol Foglesong just before the<br />
coronavirus hit.<br />
Denise Beardsworth Costa has<br />
moved back to the east coast after<br />
about 25 years in the west, retired<br />
from a career in journalism. She<br />
and her husband, John, also a newly<br />
retired journalist, now live within a<br />
mile of their youngest child, a lawyer,<br />
and her husband and two children<br />
near Richmond, VA. Their eldest<br />
is a researcher in medical applications<br />
of artificial intelligence, and<br />
their middle child is involved with<br />
computer languages. He has three<br />
daughters. She is still a newbie at<br />
the retirement business and unsure<br />
where she’ll focus her energies, but<br />
travel and grandchildren will likely<br />
be a big part of it.<br />
Rosemary Dunaway Trible and<br />
Paul have been at Christopher Newport<br />
University where he has served<br />
as president for 24 years. They have<br />
loved every minute and feel privileged<br />
to experience these young<br />
people as they grow into leading a<br />
life of significance. They now have<br />
four grandchildren. Daughter and<br />
Barrett have a son Lochlan (nine)<br />
and a daughter Truitt (seven). The<br />
sons, Paul and Brett, have two children,<br />
Camden (two) and Carrington<br />
(5-1/2 months). They are a joy! She<br />
retired as executive director of Fear-<br />
2Freedom this year but serves on the<br />
board and remains active. The mission<br />
is to bring hope and dignity to<br />
those sexually assaulted and to empower<br />
communities and students to<br />
combat sexual violence. Over 26,000<br />
Fear2Freedom after-care kits have<br />
gone to hospitals and community<br />
groups. Check it out at Fear2Freedom.org.<br />
Michela English and Rob have<br />
moved from DC to the house on<br />
Gwynn’s Island, VA, on the Chesapeake<br />
Bay. While they still have a<br />
small apartment in DC, they consider<br />
Gwynn’s Island their permanent<br />
residence. She no longer works full<br />
time but serves on a number of corporate<br />
and non-profit boards which<br />
occupy most of her time. When not<br />
working, she enjoys walking or kayaking<br />
with her Australian labradoodle,<br />
reading, visiting friends, and cleaning<br />
up after Rob’s gourmet meals. They<br />
also have two grown children and a<br />
granddaughter. Daughter, Eleanore,<br />
and granddaughter, Darby, live in<br />
Dallas and son, Will, lives in Sydney,<br />
Australia. They spent a fun weekend<br />
in Richmond with Betsy Muhlenfeld,<br />
former SBC president, whom<br />
they see regularly.<br />
Kathy Garcia Pegues and husband,<br />
John became Master Gardeners<br />
this year (joining Barbara and<br />
Amanda—and who else?). They<br />
used their new skills at <strong>Sweet</strong> Work<br />
Weeks for the fifth year. This will<br />
be her last season as the program’s<br />
co-chair but they still plan to be participants.<br />
They took a beautiful and<br />
historically interesting trip to eastern<br />
Europe: Warsaw, Auschwitz, Krakow<br />
(their favorite), Budapest, Vienna,<br />
Prague and all the music and<br />
beautiful countryside in between.<br />
Camp Grandma-Gee was again in<br />
session for the grandkids. They did<br />
a two-week New England trip in<br />
2019 to Plymouth, Boston, Cape<br />
Cod, Nantucket and New Bedford,<br />
concentrating on local history and<br />
the whaling industry in particular.<br />
Great fun!<br />
Kathy, Wendy Weiler and Ellen<br />
Weintraub attended Gina Mancusi<br />
Wills’ memorial. They were shocked<br />
and saddened that, just a few weeks<br />
later, there was the news of Ellen’s<br />
sudden passing. She was glad to have<br />
had that time with them. “Ladies,<br />
next May is our 50th reunion. Please<br />
make every effort to be there. Life is<br />
precious and fragile; we want to see<br />
you and celebrate our shared past<br />
and the stories of our journeys.”<br />
Liz Glassman retired at the end<br />
of June <strong>2020</strong> from the Terra Foundation<br />
of American Art after almost 20<br />
years as its President and CEO. She<br />
says the post has been nothing but<br />
tremendously gratifying, but now is<br />
looking forward to the next chapter.<br />
This will include continuing more<br />
time at her home in Santa Fe, and<br />
also living in her perch on Lincoln<br />
Park in Chicago. For the last 20 years<br />
she has been traveling the world fairly<br />
constantly, as well as having a good<br />
time at home, enjoying friends and<br />
family, books and many laughs. Anyone<br />
in the area, please let her know.<br />
She looks forward to reunions of all<br />
kinds.<br />
Trixie Hatten Chambers tells us<br />
that she and Edwin are enjoying life<br />
on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Their<br />
residence is still in GA, and she still<br />
works occasionally as a psychiatric<br />
consultant in the emergency room<br />
in Tallahassee. They just completed<br />
training for CASA in MS. She has<br />
enjoyed traveling to Israel and Italy<br />
in the last couple of years and had<br />
the serendipitous pleasure of meeting<br />
two SBC sisters, Asses in fact!<br />
They were at a lovely dinner at a very<br />
long table under an arbor at a villa in<br />
Italy when Laura Willets Evans ’81,<br />
asked animatedly, “Hey, Trixie! Were<br />
you an Ass? She replied, “Yes! How<br />
did you know?” She points to another<br />
guest, Nancy Corkery ’82 a few<br />
seats down, and says, “Nancy was an<br />
Ass, too!” They laughed hysterically<br />
as they beheld the faces of many perplexed<br />
guests!<br />
Anne Helms Cooper and Bill<br />
have moved into a condo after selling<br />
their house in July 2019. They<br />
sold their house and three days later,<br />
while at Smith Mountain Lake, Bill<br />
fell and broke his neck. She packed<br />
everything up and moved into a<br />
much smaller condo while he was<br />
in the hospital and acute rehab for<br />
seven weeks. He came home four<br />
days after she had moved into the<br />
condo, and they have been working<br />
on it ever since. If he continues to<br />
progress well, they had planned to go<br />
to Spain, Portugal and Morocco this<br />
past June. Anne has been taking tap<br />
class at parks and rec and highly recommends<br />
it. There was also a special<br />
trip before the virus hit to the Grove<br />
Park Inn in Asheville, NC, to celebrate<br />
the birthdays of two grandsons<br />
and herself.<br />
Nancy Liebowitz Vose is doing<br />
well in TX, loving retirement and<br />
is able to do a lot of volunteer work<br />
in several different areas as well as<br />
enjoying travel. She has two Great<br />
Danes and the younger one is a therapy<br />
dog. They have completed over<br />
70 visits in this past year. She reports<br />
that the dog has a better social life<br />
than they do. She welcomes visitors<br />
and is located just north of Dallas.<br />
Carolyn Jones Walthall is doing<br />
OK and still lives in Daphne, AL.<br />
She had hip replacement surgery in<br />
Sept. 2019 (too much dancing at<br />
combo parties?), and now feels like a<br />
balanced walker. Thank goodness for<br />
modern surgery when it works!<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Maggie Mather Feldmeier says<br />
she is blessed with good health and<br />
she and Jake are enjoying this phase<br />
of life—balancing growing a relatively<br />
new business with time for travel,<br />
family and friends. They have tried<br />
to do at least one major trip per year.<br />
Oct-Nov 2019 they went to South<br />
America for a couple weeks and<br />
toured Chile, Argentina and Brazil.<br />
Sadly, she was not back in time<br />
to attend Gina Mancusi’s memorial<br />
service and says it is hard to picture<br />
that little spark-plug gone. In <strong>2020</strong>,<br />
she had hoped to take her maiden<br />
grandchild trip with Andy (10), the<br />
oldest, on a Tauck Bridges tour of<br />
the west. The fall <strong>2020</strong> trip was going<br />
to be to the Baltic countries (Estonia,<br />
Latvia, Lithuania and Finland)<br />
and Russia. She is trying to do the<br />
far-flung spots while they’re still mobile.<br />
As a dear Irish friend says (with<br />
heavy brogue): “You have the go-go<br />
years, the slow-go years, and the nogo<br />
years.” She is convincing herself<br />
that she is still in go-go mode! Most<br />
of the year Maggie is in Cazenovia,<br />
NY, where they love a lakeside location,<br />
except in winter when it looks<br />
like Siberia! To that end, they rent a<br />
house every year in Hilton Head for<br />
March and early April and are able<br />
to work remotely. Two of their three<br />
grands (with a 4th that was due in<br />
May <strong>2020</strong>) live right near them in<br />
Cazenovia. Their other grandchild<br />
(named Mather Margaret) lives in<br />
Charlottesville.<br />
Valeria Murphey has been living<br />
in Richmond for the last 45<br />
years, working as a newspaper reporter,<br />
magazine editor and then a<br />
state budget manager. She is now<br />
enjoying retirement. She and her<br />
husband, Dick Bragg, love to travel<br />
and have been all over the world,<br />
mostly exploring Europe but also<br />
Southeast Asia, Egypt, Israel, Kenya<br />
and Tanzania. Last year, they spent<br />
three weeks in Puglia, a wonderfully<br />
unspoiled area in the heel of the<br />
boot in Italy. Last spring, they were<br />
headed to Peru for a three-week trip<br />
to the Amazon jungle, Machu Picchu<br />
and Lake Titicaca. Next year is<br />
South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.<br />
Some of their most special trips<br />
were bonding experiences with each<br />
grandchild as he or she turned 14.<br />
They now have eight granddaughters<br />
(ranging in age from 17 to 27,<br />
a grandson aged 24, and the first<br />
great grandchild on the way). Since<br />
the older grandchildren are now getting<br />
married and pregnant, it seems<br />
she’ll be hosting or going to a lot of<br />
bridal and baby showers. She didn’t<br />
have children of her own, but married<br />
a man with kids so she got to go<br />
straight to being a grandmother! Kudos<br />
to all who have been working so<br />
hard to keep <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> strong and<br />
healthy since we saved her!<br />
Carol Remington Foglesong<br />
has taken two bucket list trips in 12<br />
months. Wee doggie! She went on<br />
a Viking River Rhine Cruise from<br />
Amsterdam to Basel, Switzerland<br />
in October 2019. Her May <strong>2020</strong><br />
70th birthday present to herself<br />
was postponed but was a 19-day<br />
Viking Ocean cruise to the British<br />
Isles (London, Dublin, Wales, Belfast,<br />
Scotland and ending in Bergen,<br />
Norway). Nesi is waiting for her!<br />
Still is still active in her professional<br />
association, Property Records<br />
Industry Association (PRIA). That<br />
means she gets to go to both national<br />
conferences each year and see<br />
friends made over the past 15 years.<br />
She was going to see youngest son,<br />
Christopher, his wife, Sarah, and<br />
their new house in New Braunfels,<br />
TX, before and after the PRIA conference<br />
in Austin at the end of Feb.<br />
Her oldest son, Eric, and his wife,<br />
Crissy, plus four grands—Jameson<br />
(13), Mackinley (11), Collins (nine)<br />
and Leighton (seven)—live closer to<br />
her in the Orlando area and are busy<br />
with lots of sports and school activities.<br />
Grammie Carol is happy to join<br />
in when schedules allow, or an extra<br />
driver/car is needed. Carol also stays<br />
busy with the League of Women<br />
Voters of Orange County and is contemplating<br />
a move within a year or<br />
two to a continuing care community.<br />
“Ain’t getting any younger and my<br />
mom set a great example for me to<br />
follow.” Her mother has had a wonderful<br />
experience at her CCC north<br />
of Baltimore, where she goes to see<br />
her about every eight weeks. She<br />
turned 97 in December <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
René Roark Bowditch is still<br />
in VA but she moved from Williamsburg<br />
to Gloucester, just off the<br />
York River on Sarah Creek, in 2010<br />
when her husband, with his brother,<br />
turned their family home on Main<br />
Street, Yorktown, into a B&B: hornsbyhouseinn.com.<br />
It’s a great place for<br />
corporate retreats, weddings and<br />
girlfriend weekends, as well as visits<br />
to nearby Williamsburg. While David<br />
is an innkeeper in his retirement,<br />
she is still heavily involved with the<br />
nonprofit she cofounded 13 years<br />
ago, hereforthegirls.org. H4TG provides<br />
not-your-typical psychosocial<br />
support to young women affected by<br />
breast cancer in-person in 11 communities,<br />
and online nationwide.<br />
If you know of any young women<br />
(diagnosed under 50) dealing with<br />
breast cancer or its aftermath, please<br />
send them her way. Connecting with<br />
others their age who get it because<br />
they’ve been there can be a huge help.<br />
Some of her <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> sisters, like<br />
Rosemary Dunaway Trible and<br />
Barbie Gracey Backer, have supported<br />
this to her great delight. Her<br />
biggest family news was that her<br />
29-year-old daughter was getting<br />
married this May at her home to a<br />
great guy from Annapolis, which is<br />
where they will live. This is their first<br />
to marry so they are very excited.<br />
“Yup, we started kinda late, lol.” She<br />
sees Rosemary Dunaway Trible<br />
and Becky Bottomley Meeker often<br />
as both live nearby. She will see if she<br />
can talk them into a road trip for our<br />
50th. Treasuring every single day!<br />
Trudy Slade McNight has been<br />
on quite a journey, literally and figuratively,<br />
with her husband’s diagnosis<br />
over the past decade. She married<br />
her sweet husband, Jack, in 2005,<br />
on Bainbridge Island, WA. In 2010,<br />
she suspected that something wasn’t<br />
quite right with him. He was eventually<br />
diagnosed with dementia, and<br />
a few years later, Alzheimer’s. They<br />
have managed to live a good life over<br />
this time, amazingly enough. They<br />
moved back to her house in Atlantic<br />
Beach, FL, for five years and enjoyed<br />
their time at the beach. She was<br />
becoming disgruntled with health<br />
care, especially for Jack’s needs, and<br />
decided to do an online search for<br />
dementia care around the world. A<br />
care resort in Chiang Mai, Thailand,<br />
came up in the search. Long story<br />
short, they moved to Chiang Mai<br />
three years ago, the first year living at<br />
the Care Resort Chiang Mai, and the<br />
last two years living independently.<br />
This has turned out to be a very good<br />
move for them. It is an area where<br />
caring and respect for the elderly are<br />
cultural values. In addition, the move<br />
has been a stimulating adventure for<br />
her and they have met many wonderful<br />
people, Thais and expats from<br />
all over the world. She is so glad they<br />
took the risk of moving there!<br />
Barbara Smith Young says life<br />
continues to be good for her with six<br />
grandchildren who they see often.<br />
She is still involved with the University<br />
of Kentucky and the University<br />
Hospital. She keeps up with Susan<br />
Ewing, Pamolu Oldham and saw<br />
Wendy Weiler last year at her sister’s<br />
funeral in NJ. Her sister, Lynne,<br />
was in the SBC Class of ’64, so she<br />
heard from many of her classmates<br />
after her death.<br />
Sally Uptegrove Lee’s husband<br />
of 46 years died in July 2019 from<br />
renal cancer, and it has been a difficult<br />
time. Her sister had already<br />
planned to take a cruise from Los<br />
Angeles to Auckland, New Zealand,<br />
to escape cold weather, so she decided<br />
to join her. At the time she wrote<br />
this update, the ship was anchored in<br />
Bora Bora. They were enjoying yoga,<br />
bridge classes, team trivia, lectures<br />
and dancing, as well as wonderful<br />
food and drink. They planned to<br />
tour NZ after disembarking and<br />
returned home Feb. 29. Seven years<br />
ago, she and Bob moved from Nashville<br />
to San Antonio to be closer to<br />
their daughter. They remodeled a<br />
1920s house and she joined the Assistance<br />
League and the Trinity University<br />
Women’s Club. Rachel is now<br />
moving to San Francisco because<br />
her husband has started working at<br />
Google! So, you never know what<br />
will happen next. She is happy in<br />
San Antonio and does not plan to<br />
move, but it is obvious she will now<br />
be traveling to CA to see them and<br />
her three grandchildren.<br />
Linda Whitlow Knight was expecting<br />
their first grandbaby early<br />
last Feb. She was headed to VA for<br />
a Jamestown Society board meeting<br />
and then on to Rome to arrive in<br />
time to see their daughter, her husband<br />
and the new baby. Needless to<br />
say, it was pretty hectic then but in<br />
a good way! She was shocked and<br />
saddened to learn of Gina’s and Ellen’s<br />
passing, especially since two of<br />
our classmates were with Ellen such<br />
a short time before at Gina’s service.<br />
Roseanne Woodruff wanted to<br />
express her sadness at the loss of two<br />
SBC classmates this past year: Gina<br />
and Ellen. She had not seen Gina<br />
since SBC, but remembers her verve<br />
and effervescence while at SBC, and,<br />
of course, her infectious smile. Ellen’s<br />
untimely passing was a shock to all.<br />
She had the opportunity to converse<br />
with Ellen (and her doggies) during<br />
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<strong>Sweet</strong> Work Weeks a couple of years<br />
ago. (Well, the dogs may have been<br />
contraband, but they were adorable!)<br />
They spoke of the possibility of a<br />
doggie dorm, or pet dorm or some<br />
accommodation for those wishing<br />
to attend SBC with pets other than<br />
horses. She was looking forward to<br />
more conversations with Ellen. She<br />
has enjoyed class notes from years<br />
past, although she has not participated<br />
much, if at all, and the same with<br />
reunions. More recently, she attended<br />
a part of a reunion and also <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
Work Weeks, both of which she<br />
strongly recommends. She doesn’t<br />
Facebook much because of her line<br />
of work for the federal government<br />
which involves investigative accounting<br />
and a security clearance. Much of<br />
the work has been fairly typical contract,<br />
grant, loan, and loan guarantee<br />
and performance oversight. Currently,<br />
she is temporarily out of the daily<br />
commuting work force, planning<br />
and preparing for a return focused<br />
on her professional preferences. She<br />
actively trains to update and upgrade<br />
her skills, most recently undertaking<br />
enterprise risk management training<br />
as well as state-of-the-art training in<br />
artificial intelligence and how it can<br />
be used to transform financial and<br />
accounting work. Roseanne no longer<br />
lives in downtown DC, where<br />
she had lived for decades. Several<br />
years after purchasing an elegant Dupont<br />
Circle condo, the condo flooded<br />
via the common elements, which<br />
had not been properly maintained<br />
despite the escalating property values,<br />
condo fees and superb location.<br />
The walls and flooring, including<br />
herringbone teak flooring, were lost.<br />
Along with renovating the extensive<br />
damage, she ended up completely<br />
gutting and updating the kitchen, although<br />
that was not impacted by the<br />
flooding. Because of her disappointing<br />
experience with condo living, she<br />
decided to consider a single-family<br />
home where she would have control<br />
over her own destiny. (And she had<br />
become fearless about real estate and<br />
renovations.) She spotted a charming<br />
French country home out in the<br />
Fauquier County, VA, countryside<br />
and opted to try country living as<br />
well as the major commute related to<br />
that privilege. (There was originally<br />
an agreement to telework three days<br />
a week, a policy which was later revised<br />
for her and others living some<br />
distance from the office downtown.)<br />
She enjoyed her new life so much<br />
she eventually sold the downtown<br />
DC condo once the renovations were<br />
completed. Maintaining her professional<br />
contacts and credentials, as<br />
well as her home and the one acre<br />
of landscaping that surrounds it,<br />
have taken much of her time and<br />
effort recently. While she aspires to<br />
one day become a Master Gardener<br />
like Kathy Garcia Pegues, she is<br />
still learning about landscaping and<br />
plants by attending the wonderful<br />
lectures at the premiere local nursery,<br />
Merrifield Garden Center, as well<br />
as those sponsored by local counties.<br />
She also more recently became<br />
involved in local volunteer and civic<br />
activities. Prior to the condo debacle,<br />
she was involved in a lot of dance<br />
and charity events in and around<br />
DC and also participated in a beach<br />
house in Rehoboth, DE, for years,<br />
traveling the back roads to the beach<br />
most summer weekends. She also<br />
managed to travel, including cruises<br />
to the Caribbean, a Mediterranean<br />
cruise with extra days in Rome and<br />
Venice and a South American cruise<br />
around Cape Horn, which she highly<br />
recommends. She added touring<br />
days in Santiago, Chile, Buenos Aires,<br />
Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil.<br />
She is looking forward to our 50th<br />
and hopes to see not only SBC graduates,<br />
but those who attended with<br />
us but did not graduate from SBC.<br />
Diana Zeidel says hi to everyone.<br />
She enjoyed a rejuvenating 70th with<br />
Mimi Pitts Dixon and Caroline<br />
Tuttle Murray at Canyon Ranch.<br />
As George Will said, “We have one<br />
less worry: no fear of dying young!”<br />
She and Jon are well and they have<br />
moved to a city condo in West Palm<br />
Beach. They love being able to walk<br />
everywhere. One granddaughter is<br />
in college and the other two are finishing<br />
high school. Diana goes to<br />
Richmond often to see family and<br />
has seen Mimi Pitts and Caroline<br />
Tuttle there as well. As Jacque said,<br />
“I spend a lot of time caring for my<br />
mom...could have used more home<br />
economics and less statistics.” She<br />
hopes everyone is well.<br />
Your class secretaries, Anne, Bev<br />
and Mary Frances, send their best<br />
to all of you! Thank you for sharing<br />
your news. Stay safe and well! We<br />
hope to see many of you at the 50th<br />
reunion May 28-30, 2021!<br />
1972<br />
Jill Johnson<br />
MarySue Morrison Thomas<br />
98 Pine Bluff<br />
Portsmouth, VA 23701<br />
72sweetbriar@gmail.com<br />
Jeannette Pillsbury is happily<br />
settled in Amherst, VA, just down<br />
the road from <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>. Although<br />
COVID-19 has curtailed travel, she<br />
has visited a few VA classmates. She<br />
was able to attend most of the Jan.<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Day gatherings in VA.<br />
In Jan., Ellen Apperson, in town<br />
for some business at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>,<br />
visited her for a good overnight stay.<br />
Jeannette hopes more classmates will<br />
come for a meal or for an overnight.<br />
Holly Smith writes from London<br />
that she loved lockdown. It gave her<br />
time to learn InDesign software for<br />
laying out her Garden Square News<br />
magazine, and to produce the spring<br />
issue. See her new website: gardensquarenews.com.<br />
It also allowed her<br />
and her husband, Neil Osborn, time<br />
to enjoy one of the best springs in<br />
recent memory. She said the weather<br />
was perfect, and the lack of car and<br />
airline pollution revealed, within<br />
about two days, that London had vivid<br />
blue skies over it. They rode Boris<br />
Bikes for the first time since the empty<br />
streets were so safe.<br />
Dale Shelly Graham thought<br />
<strong>2020</strong> was going to be great since<br />
son Fielding and daughter Lily were<br />
both getting married but then the<br />
pandemic struck and both weddings<br />
were cancelled. Lily’s wedding was<br />
planned for three different dates before<br />
she realized that the wedding of<br />
her dreams was becoming a nightmare.<br />
In a bow to lock downs and the<br />
somber times, Lily is now looking<br />
forward to a small outdoor celebration<br />
in Sept. with just family and attendants<br />
at her aunt Elliott Graham<br />
Schoenig’s ’76 farm in Charlottesville.<br />
They have been stockpiling gloves,<br />
masks and disinfectants so hopefully<br />
this wedding will work. Dale really<br />
regrets that her SBC peeps can’t be<br />
there to celebrate with her especially<br />
since they’ve been so sweet and<br />
supportive during all the chaos. Her<br />
son Fielding and his fiancé cancelled<br />
their Oct. wedding in Scotland and<br />
haven’t made any new plans yet. On<br />
a brighter note she’s happy to report<br />
that everyone is still healthy.<br />
Deirdre Conley sends her news<br />
from COVID central in Miami!<br />
She has remained safe at home for<br />
months: “a Zoom kind of year,” she<br />
says. Her sanity has been saved by<br />
her superb <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Summer<br />
session, Prof. Jeff Key’s “The Modern<br />
Middle East” with one SBC student<br />
and five other alumnae including<br />
classmate Jeannette Pillsbury.<br />
DeDe just finished her class research<br />
project, so if you have any lingering<br />
questions on Turkey, please feel free<br />
to ask! She also loved the Alumnae<br />
<strong>College</strong> presentations on our core<br />
curriculum classes led by many brilliant<br />
professors and enjoyed our ’72<br />
Zoom class reunion, seeing all the<br />
faces not seen for a while. DeDe is<br />
disappointed not to attend <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
Work Weeks this summer and also<br />
not to be able to go to France for the<br />
time being. She stays in touch with<br />
Liz Clegg Woodard who is safe and<br />
sound in Houston, Jean Chaloux<br />
Miani who is doing well in another<br />
hot spot, Milan, Italy. DeDe continues<br />
to exchange emails with Cissy<br />
Gott who is thriving at home in DC<br />
and Jean Andrews who flew to VA<br />
from CA despite COVID conditions<br />
to take care of her mom. DeDe<br />
is especially proud that her niece will<br />
be starting her second year at SBC<br />
this fall semester keeping her close to<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>.<br />
1973<br />
Evelyn Carter Cowles<br />
PO Box 278<br />
Free Union, VA 22940<br />
ecc52@icloud.com<br />
Mary Buxton: “I am liking staying<br />
at home and am busy with the<br />
Sierra Club and 350 Silicon Valley. I<br />
hope everyone stays healthy!”<br />
Betsy Thayer: “I am now living<br />
in Burlington, VT, near some other<br />
family and loving being near a large,<br />
fresh-water lake, after my roots near<br />
Lake Michigan. My two daughters<br />
continue living in Denver and DC.<br />
I have a son-in-law and granddaughter<br />
now, also in DC. Luckily, so far<br />
all have remained COVID-free. I<br />
continue part-time work as a clinical<br />
social worker and love the outdoor<br />
activities near, in and on the lake. I<br />
am looking forward to our 50th!”<br />
Scottie O’Toole: “In 2016 I<br />
married for the first time! I met Ed<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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sbc.edu<br />
Goss online. He was widowed in<br />
2005 and has four grown children<br />
and eight grandchildren, with one on<br />
the way. We live in Flowery Branch,<br />
GA, where we built a house together.<br />
I enjoy being a grandmother. I also<br />
volunteer to drive seniors who can<br />
no longer drive. Sadly, the volunteer<br />
organization I drove for couldn’t survive<br />
the COVID but a few of us still<br />
drive riders. It is a pleasure for me to<br />
hear their stories.”<br />
Kathleen Cochran Schutze:<br />
“We are so fortunate to be retired<br />
in a wonderful place with plenty to<br />
do without leaving the house! All<br />
three of our adult children have<br />
continued to work full time. However,<br />
we are anxiously anticipating<br />
our return to normal life. The lack<br />
of running around has been hard on<br />
my fitness and diet and we miss seeing<br />
our friends and family in person.<br />
We pray that all of our <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
friends stay healthy.”<br />
Ginger Woodward Gast: “I<br />
don’t have much to report except<br />
that I’m healthy and have never felt<br />
better though actually that’s huge!<br />
I’m thankful for my excellent health.<br />
All of my travel plans are on hold<br />
until this virus is sorted out, but<br />
I am thoroughly enjoying seeing<br />
grandchild #7, born October 2019,<br />
as well as the FL gang who moved<br />
to Leesburg last year. My husband<br />
and I celebrated our 44th wedding<br />
anniversary at Il Palladio Restaurant<br />
in Barboursville near Orange,<br />
VA. It was delicious and worth the<br />
almost two-hour drive from Fairfax.<br />
In the fall, I’ll begin my eighth year<br />
of studying Italian and can’t wait to<br />
return.”<br />
Louise “Weezie” Blakeslee Gilpin:<br />
“Bob and I have been on Martha’s<br />
Vineyard full-time for four<br />
years now and, although we will<br />
always be wash-ashores, it does feel<br />
like home. I am back working at two<br />
of the Island libraries after the threemonth<br />
hiatus. It is odd not to have<br />
patrons in the building but curbside<br />
pick-up is a great solution. Bob keeps<br />
claiming that he will not take any<br />
new clients with the goal of really retiring<br />
in three years. We’ll see! There<br />
are always high school students in<br />
need of good college advising. We<br />
had a glorious three-week trip to<br />
Sydney last fall to visit Christopher<br />
and his family and the six of us spent<br />
a week in Tasmania, a truly magical<br />
place. Blake and family are on the<br />
vineyard for a month from New Orleans<br />
(he is a history professor at Tulane).<br />
The plan had been to have all<br />
three families here in early July but<br />
the pandemic nixed that. Alexa and<br />
her family are in Leesburg, VA, and<br />
facing online school again this fall.<br />
Life is certainly peculiar, and I am<br />
grateful for the health of our family<br />
and for the fact that Bob and I are essentially<br />
homebodies so life has not<br />
changed enormously for us. Jigsaw<br />
puzzles, a ceiling painting project,<br />
crossword puzzles and books have<br />
filled up my days. Cases on the island<br />
are relatively small although the influx<br />
of vacationers have bumped up<br />
our numbers.”<br />
Pat Wingfield: “I am a grandmother<br />
times two! My first grand<br />
Langley Anne McClelland (four) is<br />
named for my father Langley Harris<br />
Wood. My second grand is Audrey<br />
Lynn McClelland (one). We enjoy<br />
babysitting them as they all live<br />
in Richmond, VA, a mile from our<br />
house. My husband Greg and I recently<br />
celebrated our 39th wedding<br />
anniversary! Greg retired a couple<br />
of years ago as CEO of the Greater<br />
Richmond Partnership, so we have<br />
some additional flexibility to travel<br />
several times a year to the Caribbean,<br />
European, etc. I am still at the Bank<br />
of American as a systems programmer<br />
but hope to retire soon!”<br />
Susan Dern Plank: “All is well<br />
here thus far, and we are doing all<br />
we can to ensure it remains that<br />
way! Lots of deferred projects in<br />
the yard are slowly being done, once<br />
the weather improved in late spring.<br />
(We had snow flurries in May) My<br />
grandson (four) was so excited as<br />
he thought ‘Santa Hoho’ would be<br />
coming soon. Our daughter and<br />
the two grandchildren were here for<br />
the month of May. We were their<br />
teachers (pre-K and 2nd grade) as<br />
our daughter works remotely and is<br />
fortunate to still be working full time<br />
for a financial services firm in Nashville.<br />
I have seen Laurie Norris Coccio<br />
several times, once to play Mah-<br />
Jong before everything went crazy<br />
and twice just socially with the other<br />
players on her patio, appropriate<br />
protocols in place. I’m also in touch<br />
with Ginger Woodward Gast from<br />
time to time for her expert advice<br />
teaching a preschooler, suggestions<br />
for contacts at SBC, etc. Our Belizean<br />
friend, Elisa, has been accepted<br />
as a transfer student in the Wyllie<br />
Engineering program. SBC has been<br />
most helpful, friendly and responsive<br />
to both her and myself from admissions<br />
to the registrar. As an alum, I<br />
am most pleased and proud of the<br />
<strong>College</strong>.”<br />
Jane Potts: “My son, Rives<br />
Sutherland, was married in Charleston,<br />
SC, in Dec. 2019. There were<br />
several <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> friends at the<br />
wedding: Deborah Ziegler Hopkins,<br />
Betsy Perry, Terry Christovich,<br />
Melinda Williams Davis,<br />
Lisa Wickham, Anne Cogswell<br />
Burris ’75 and even Pascale Boulard<br />
Dutilleul from France.”<br />
Glenys Church: “I retired in June<br />
2016. I scrapbook and make cards in<br />
my free time. This year, I have been<br />
making cards with friends during<br />
Zoom meetings. I have just begun<br />
to scrapbook again since this whole<br />
thing started. I realized that, since<br />
I don’t see very many people, the<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> friends on Facebook<br />
seem much closer. I enjoy communicating<br />
with you.”<br />
Chris Hegarty Savage: “I’m enjoying<br />
retirement in spite of all the<br />
COVID-19 issues. I have to say I’m<br />
especially glad to be retired as I was<br />
a medical laboratory scientist for 45<br />
years and would be in the thick of<br />
testing if I were still working. My<br />
thanks to all the techs who are doing<br />
so! I’m playing a lot of pickleball, as<br />
it’s a sport that we play outdoors for<br />
now. I’m grateful that our city has<br />
kept the courts open as it’s one of the<br />
few physical and social things we are<br />
safely able to do. I’m looking forward<br />
to getting back to babysitting two<br />
days a week for my grandchildren<br />
(three and eight) starting after Labor<br />
Day. Another exciting thing happening<br />
is my son, daughter-in-law<br />
and little boy (one) are moving back<br />
to the Cleveland area in Sept., from<br />
Colorado Springs. They’ve been out<br />
there for six years and are ready to<br />
come back home to family. Their jobs<br />
are allowing them to work from here.<br />
One good thing that has come out of<br />
this COVID thing is they’ve proven<br />
they can do their jobs mostly from<br />
home. So as much as I enjoy summertime,<br />
I’m really looking forward<br />
to Sept.! Stay well everyone.”<br />
Noreen (Rene) Conover Reed:<br />
“COVID-19 has curtailed all of<br />
our travel plans for the foreseeable<br />
future, and it has most definitely<br />
changed our lifestyle! Our youngest<br />
granddaughter, Lucy, just had her<br />
first birthday, and we celebrated the<br />
event with a Zoom party. Glad for<br />
technology, but miss all of the hugs<br />
and sloppy kisses that only one-yearolds<br />
can give. Hoping everyone is<br />
staying safe and well. Counting the<br />
days until we all can meet again.”<br />
Nan Robertson Clarke: “A big<br />
shout-out to all our classmates who<br />
helped lift the great class of ’73 past<br />
the goal of 30% participation in this<br />
year’s <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Fund. It would<br />
take more than a pandemic to stop<br />
us, and you have the sincere gratitude<br />
of both the <strong>College</strong> and your<br />
class officers, Diane Reiling, Evie<br />
Cowles and me. Speaking of the<br />
pandemic, my last trip before lockdown<br />
was to meet Emily Garth<br />
Brown and Diane Leslie (Diane’s<br />
sister Carol St. John ’75 was kind<br />
enough to share her beautiful beach<br />
house); Susan Craig was busy with<br />
the completion of a new bungalow<br />
for herself and Wayne in Columbia,<br />
but she was very much there in<br />
spirit. We did miss our daughter’s<br />
June wedding (though we saw it<br />
streamed) and have not yet met our<br />
sixth grandchild, but everyone in<br />
the family is healthy and employed,<br />
among other blessings. I have loved<br />
having time to garden and read. By<br />
procrastinating in downsizing, Hal<br />
and I have also had plenty of room<br />
in both the house and yard to spread<br />
out. As Khalil Gibran said in The<br />
Prophet (I’m pretty sure I had that<br />
poster up freshman year!): ‘Let there<br />
be spaces in your togetherness.”<br />
Dianne Wood Keyser: “Living<br />
through COVID-19 has been an<br />
experience. I have been working<br />
with the state of NC’s COVID-19<br />
contact tracing surge staff for a few<br />
months. It has been an interesting<br />
experience. I have learned some interesting<br />
new skills during my constantly<br />
changing retirement. Right<br />
now, I am in Jacksonville, FL, with<br />
my sister who is recuperating from<br />
surgery. I’ll be heading home this<br />
weekend and hope to get back to<br />
work with the contact training and<br />
communicable disease data entry.<br />
Life has certainly changed this year.<br />
I am keeping up with SBC and the<br />
changes going on there. I just hope<br />
we can all make it through these<br />
challenging times. We are certainly<br />
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going through some serious changes<br />
in our country and the world as<br />
a whole.<br />
Charlotte Ann Evans Klett: “I<br />
have not yet retired! Have bought a<br />
new home in the country, and separated<br />
from my spouse (we are still<br />
friends, just can’t live together anymore).<br />
Other than that, no news is<br />
good news! I am the doctor for four<br />
prisons in NC, taking care of adult<br />
male felons now, a big change from<br />
hospice, but I do love my job and it is<br />
the least stressful job I have ever had!<br />
My prisons have had offenders with<br />
COVID-19, but none so far have<br />
had much in the way of symptoms.”<br />
Cindy Bekins Anderson: “Our<br />
son graduated from pharmacy school<br />
in May and is now in his residency.<br />
Our daughter was married July 25<br />
in a COVID-inspired immediate<br />
family wedding in our backyard...<br />
so intimate and special. One of our<br />
granddaughters is having a baby in<br />
Oct., which will mean I’ll be married<br />
to a great grandfather! Good health<br />
to all.”<br />
Marion McKee Humphreys:<br />
“Hunter and I continue to enjoy our<br />
families with three grands in Nashville<br />
and three in Memphis! He is<br />
still practicing law, and I am still very<br />
involved with teaching a chronological<br />
Bible study. We both continue to<br />
stay active with swimming, Pilates<br />
and walking as my go to sports. We<br />
also love our lake home in AK and<br />
go there as often as we can! My mom<br />
died in Jan. so while getting all my<br />
stuff out of her attic, I reminisced<br />
about our years at SBC with lots of<br />
fun pics and memorabilia.”<br />
Lacy Williams: “I am still working<br />
selling real estate in Richmond,<br />
but my husband and I are looking<br />
forward to spending more time in<br />
the winter in FL.”<br />
Jane Knutson James: “ We’ve<br />
been at home for months. We’ve<br />
done car caravans connected by<br />
phone with our son’s family, which<br />
are pretty fun. When it seemed safe<br />
we actually visited them and our<br />
daughter’s family, with masks and<br />
virtual hugs. It’s not normal but no<br />
one is or has been sick! House projects,<br />
painting, gardening and walking<br />
fill our days.”<br />
Susan Craig: “In this year of<br />
change and challenge, Wayne and<br />
I are finishing up building a small<br />
house, selling our home of 34 years<br />
and relocating (but only five blocks<br />
away). I spend much of my day writing,<br />
specifically poetry, and have had<br />
success publishing in journals. I am<br />
working on a collection, and hope it<br />
will be published in the not-too-distant<br />
future. I still dabble on occasion<br />
in graphic design and communications.<br />
Both sons are well with one in<br />
Columbia as an attorney with Social<br />
Security Administration and one in<br />
LA in legal software sales. Wayne<br />
is semi-retired, but also keeps his<br />
fingers in real estate brokerage. We<br />
both hope that this move and next<br />
stage of life will be a time for travel<br />
and enjoying our later years! Wishes<br />
to all for wellness and peace in this<br />
fragile time.”<br />
Ann Major Gibb: “I am doing<br />
my best to stay safe during the pandemic.<br />
I have cleaned out my attic<br />
which is a huge plus! Can’t wait to<br />
travel again!”<br />
Jeanne Schaefer Bingham:<br />
“Coronavirus has forced Rack to<br />
work at home. It is making him reconsider<br />
his retirement. We both<br />
stay entertained by watching the<br />
3-ring grandson circus next door<br />
around their pool and with their variety<br />
of ATVs. These days, I guess,<br />
it is good to be entertained without<br />
going anywhere! I was just able to<br />
watch a mother deer nursing her<br />
fawn right outside my window.”<br />
Mary Danford: “Our son Brendan<br />
was married Sept. 1, 2019, in a<br />
vineyard in Santa Rosa, CA. It was<br />
a beautiful wedding, and we were<br />
delighted that sister-in-law Alison<br />
Baker was there to share it with us.<br />
Fortunately, the opening of my first<br />
art show happened in early March<br />
of this year right before everything<br />
was closed down by the pandemic.<br />
We’re physically distancing out here<br />
in the woods, going for walks on the<br />
road, and making banana bread with<br />
chocolate chunks. Thrilled to have a<br />
distanced vacation at the OR coast<br />
(Manzanita) with Brendan and Bryn<br />
over the 4th of July. Finally got a<br />
haircut at the end of July after almost<br />
six months! Hope everyone’s staying<br />
safe and that one of these days I can<br />
make it back to SBC for a reunion.”<br />
Evelyn Carter Cowles: “I am<br />
blessed that between MT and VA,<br />
Reynolds and I have two beautiful<br />
rural places to socially distance ourselves.<br />
I broke my ankle a year ago<br />
(Aug.) which left me staring at the<br />
walls for several months and therefore<br />
planning a lot of house projects.<br />
After much physical therapy I am finally<br />
starting to move around a little<br />
better and hope to get back to riding<br />
soon. We purchased a used popup<br />
camper to head to MT which I<br />
nicknamed The Clampett-Mobile.<br />
It got us there and back! We had a<br />
great time fishing and seeing friends.<br />
Reynolds is almost retired, and all<br />
the kids and grandkids are doing<br />
well. I am sorry to report that Judith<br />
Buttrick Sargent passed away in<br />
June leaving her husband of 43 years<br />
and their two children. Thanks for<br />
all your news and here’s to everyone<br />
staying healthy for our 50th!”<br />
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Anne Cogswell Burris<br />
1437 Headquarters Plantation Dr.<br />
Johns Island, SC 29455<br />
acburris@comcast.net<br />
Bet Bashinsky Wise: “Doug<br />
and I spent the summer again at<br />
our residence in Whitefish, MT. We<br />
discovered this area on a BackRoads<br />
cycling trip in 1995. There was certainly<br />
plenty of social distancing<br />
there. Gail Ann Zarwell Winkler<br />
and John joined us to celebrate<br />
July 4, 2019. The hiking photo was<br />
from a few weeks ago when I was<br />
with the Summit Sisters to Numa<br />
Ridge Lookout overlooking mountain<br />
drainage of Bowman Lake in<br />
the North Fork of Glacier National<br />
Park. I finally hung up my spurs<br />
due to chronic back issues. This next<br />
chapter in life I’m trying to learn<br />
sculling. My spina bifida son, Case, is<br />
involved with the Nashville Rowing<br />
Club, and he’s dragged me to winter<br />
conditioning on ERG’s for a few winters<br />
now; I’ve taken the plunge (literally)<br />
to attempt this sport. Our dog,<br />
Freeway, was 13 or 14 and crossed<br />
over the rainbow bridge on Halloween<br />
2019. All our <strong>2020</strong> travel plans<br />
were canceled due to COVID-19.<br />
We were looking forward to many<br />
new destinations—oh well, maybe<br />
in future years, God willing.”<br />
Catherine Cranston Whitham:<br />
“I wish I could say that I have taken<br />
up some wonderful creative outlet<br />
during the COVID-19 time. Instead<br />
I had three tears in my shoulder<br />
which was repaired in April. Recently<br />
I signed on to do my bit for<br />
a COVID-19 by taking one 24-hr.<br />
period a week this fall and providing<br />
some form of cultural enrichment<br />
for my grandchildren (six and nine)<br />
because they are only in school two<br />
days a week. Since I have zero teaching<br />
skills, I’ve been making a list of<br />
local people from other continents to<br />
meet and ask about their culture and<br />
what brought them to this country.<br />
Then I thought of trips to the museum<br />
and anywhere else of historical<br />
interest. We will include swimming,<br />
weather permitting, and then go on<br />
bike rides before meeting daughter,<br />
Ann, in Charlottesville to hand<br />
them off late afternoon. I counted 16<br />
Thursdays between the end of August<br />
and Christmas. I’ll be eating my<br />
Wheaties, for sure! Happily, we are<br />
well, and like most of us, lying low<br />
to stay off COVID-19’s radar. Whit<br />
loves retirement. Me? Not so much.”<br />
Beverley Crispin Heffernan:<br />
“Well let’s see, last year I reported<br />
I was going to go to Scotland<br />
in September with Nancy Haight<br />
and Cynde Manning Chatham.<br />
We were leaving on a Tuesday. The<br />
Painting by Coni Crocker<br />
Crutchfield ’75<br />
Bet Bashinsky Wise ’75 in North<br />
Fork of Glacier National Park<br />
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Friday before our departure, I broke<br />
my femur getting bucked off a horse,<br />
so they went without me! I was laid<br />
up for several months. I began some<br />
light riding again in November and<br />
started shuttling between our homes<br />
in Sandy and Hurricane, UT, in<br />
December. Cynde and Nancy and<br />
Robin Singleton Cloyd did come<br />
and visit me while I was laid up!<br />
When COVID-19 happened, all<br />
travel plans were cancelled, including<br />
our reunion! I am going to AK (Aug.<br />
5-12, <strong>2020</strong>) and MI (Sept. <strong>2020</strong>)<br />
for mounted archery competitions.<br />
Jim and I doubt our planned trip<br />
in Oct./Nov. to Australia and New<br />
Zealand will happen. We certainly<br />
live in interesting times! Hoping<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> can squeeze in a belated<br />
45th reunion for us!”<br />
Coni Crocker Betzendahl: “I<br />
would be remiss if I did not say it has<br />
been a year like no other. Gratefully,<br />
Richard and I are doing very well.<br />
Both our daughters and husbands<br />
and grandchildren are also great, and<br />
all live within 20 minutes of us, so<br />
we frequently get together. We enjoy<br />
our mill farm together and sit in the<br />
stream to cool off. Our veggie garden<br />
is quite huge again this year, so we are<br />
planning on processing our signature<br />
salsa yet again. The beginning of the<br />
quarantine, I painted. Attached is<br />
one of them. It’s a petite painting,<br />
from a photo I took on a cruise a few<br />
years ago and stopped in Montenegro.<br />
I loved this woman’s disdain for<br />
all of the tourists in her small town.<br />
Richard and I celebrated our 40th<br />
wedding anniversary in June <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
A milestone in quarantine. We had<br />
planned an African safari…oh well,<br />
first world problems. I hope and pray<br />
that all of you are well. And I also<br />
hope and pray for healing of this very<br />
troubled world. Hugs to all!”<br />
Louisa Dixon: “I am writing<br />
from Staunton, VA, where I am an<br />
‘adult child living at home’ with my<br />
mother who just turned 102 and<br />
who is still going strong. I am in close<br />
touch with our Richmond classmates,<br />
Terry Starke Tosh and Sarah<br />
Dowdey, who have both been so<br />
kind to my mother (and me!). They<br />
have also helped with old and new<br />
Charlottesville¬-Besançon (France)<br />
Sister City exchanges. No one will<br />
be surprised to hear that Terry can<br />
often produce ‘realia’ from our SBC<br />
Junior Year in Paris. It’s been fun to<br />
Chris Hoefer Myers ’75 in Oregon<br />
see my freshman Glass dorm neighbors,<br />
Kathy Osborne Spirtes and<br />
Carol Brewer Evans, when they’ve<br />
passed through town.”<br />
Mary Dubuque Desloge: “Life<br />
is good in St. Louis. My three sons<br />
are all now married. At the time of<br />
this writing, we have three grandsons<br />
and two granddaughters. I was<br />
in Richmond last summer for my<br />
son Ray’s marriage to a Richmond<br />
girl (William & Mary), but they are<br />
in no rush to add to our brood of<br />
grandchildren. I may not have gotten<br />
to SBC this year, but being in VA for<br />
the wedding was wonderful!”<br />
Linda Frazier-Snelling: “Michael<br />
and I are enjoying retirement<br />
in Palm Springs, CA, close by to<br />
my son and his family. The three<br />
grandchildren here in Southern CA<br />
are trying to deal with the virtual<br />
school year caused by COVID-19<br />
and no sports. It has not been fun<br />
for them. 2019 was eventful for<br />
my daughter’s family (this was the<br />
daughter who attended our 5th reunion)<br />
with graduation from high<br />
school for my grandson and a wedding<br />
for my granddaughter. Michael<br />
and I walked down the aisle because<br />
she wanted to honor family that had<br />
impacted her life. Her husband did<br />
the same from his family. It was a<br />
wonderful affair on the shore of the<br />
Puget Sound with family present as<br />
far away as Japan. It’s pretty amazing<br />
to watch my first grandchildren now<br />
adults with their own lives. Are we<br />
really that old?! It seems like just yesterday<br />
I was walking across campus<br />
to the biology lab at 8 a.m.!<br />
Having not been able to have our<br />
45th reunion just means we can have<br />
a bigger one at 50! I hope our class<br />
members and their families are safe<br />
and healthy.”<br />
Cathie Grier Kelly: “Like everyone<br />
else, we have been sheltering in<br />
place and practicing social distancing.<br />
Our family is lucky to have access<br />
to two different beach houses, so<br />
we have enjoyed trips to Vero Beach,<br />
FL, and Wrightsville Beach, NC. A<br />
highlight for me during this unprecedented<br />
time has been regular Zoom<br />
calls with five of my closest classmates:<br />
Carol Brewer Evans, Ellen<br />
Harrison Saunders, Betsy Brooks<br />
Jones, Pam Myers Turner and Patty<br />
O’Malley Brunger. I retired from<br />
teaching Kindergarten this past<br />
spring and am enjoying more time<br />
with my two grandchildren, Melody<br />
(six) and Nathaniel (four). I wish<br />
good health to all my classmates.”<br />
Lisa Hall Isbell: “Since mid-<br />
March, my husband and I have been<br />
in isolation. Like the rest of the Federal<br />
government, the National Archives<br />
has been put to telework. The<br />
Conservation Lab has been writing<br />
SOPs/guidelines for the various<br />
practices/functions of the Conservation<br />
Lab. Our household remains<br />
well. We are grateful for our preservation<br />
through these times, while<br />
we are mindful of the many perils<br />
of others in the thick of dealing with<br />
the hazards. Hoping all are safe and<br />
remain well!”<br />
Ellen Harrison Saunders:<br />
“Whitney and I are still in Suffolk,<br />
VA, where Whitney is still practicing<br />
law. I continue to be active with<br />
our free health care clinic, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
and my family’s senior living business<br />
where our son, Harrison, is the<br />
CEO. COVID-19 has made this a<br />
very difficult few months. Mary Carson<br />
and her family are in Norfolk,<br />
VA. Grace just moved to Durham,<br />
NC, and Harrison and his family are<br />
in Philadelphia. We have four grandchildren<br />
under the age of four and<br />
thankfully are in their bubble now!<br />
Zoom happy hour visits have been a<br />
lot of fun with Betsy Brooks Jones,<br />
Cathie Grier Kelly, Carol Brewer<br />
Evans, Patti O’Malley Brunger and<br />
Pam Meyer Turner. Kathy Rose<br />
Rawls and I have enjoyed social<br />
distancing with each other. Sending<br />
best wishes to all our classmates for a<br />
safe and healthy year ahead. Fingers<br />
crossed we’ll get to celebrate our reunion<br />
next year!”<br />
Helen Hodges Richards: “I have<br />
retired. I went to see my dad for<br />
his 90th birthday. My time is spent<br />
mostly clearing out and cleaning.”<br />
Chris Hoefer Myers: “This summer<br />
I completed several weeks of gyrotonic<br />
training, and I am now a certified<br />
apprentice trainer (gyrotonic.<br />
com)! I travelled to Bend, OR, for a<br />
few weeks in Aug. to help Aidan and<br />
Mike move into their beautiful new<br />
home. Now they’ll have plenty of<br />
room and a yard for precious August<br />
(five) and Liam (two). Christian,<br />
who is a nurse at Mayo in Rochester,<br />
MN, and her handsome beau from<br />
Wilmington, DL, joined us for a<br />
visit! The whole family plans to return<br />
to South Andros, Bahamas for<br />
scuba diving over Thanksgiving (if<br />
international travel restrictions don’t<br />
prevent it). Then, I am back to Bend,<br />
OR, for a long visit over Christmas<br />
and New Year’s. Here in Columbia,<br />
SC, my garden continues to occupy<br />
and delight me, along with my guitar<br />
and courses from Bishop Robert<br />
Barron’s Word On Fire Institute.”<br />
Carol Leslie St. John: “ Tommy<br />
and I moved out of Essex Fells, NJ,<br />
to Vero Beach, FL, this past year. We<br />
now spend most of the winter there,<br />
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and summers are still at the Jersey<br />
Shore. With two sons in the NYC<br />
area, the summertime is happily<br />
filled with beach time with six of our<br />
eight grandchildren. Our oldest, Bryan,<br />
still lives in London with his wife<br />
and two little ones. We left London<br />
in early March just as the world came<br />
to a stop. I talk to my SBC friends<br />
often, and the pandemic has given<br />
us even more incentive to keep in<br />
touch more. Hoping to have them all<br />
down for Boxwood Reunion in Vero<br />
as soon as we can fly without worry.<br />
By the time we read this, hopefully<br />
there will have been a vaccine and the<br />
world looks brighter. I, for one, am<br />
beyond grateful for the science that<br />
will get us there! Wishing everyone<br />
good health!”<br />
Linda Lucas Steele: “I celebrate<br />
the wonders of modern medicine, 43<br />
years of marriage, and the life choices<br />
of my children. My thought-provoking<br />
conversations with friends and<br />
family have provided joy and respite<br />
from <strong>2020</strong>’s quarantine, death, injustice<br />
and violence. The highlights of<br />
the past year include: Tulip tutorials<br />
with expert Ashley Randle Averell<br />
and a sumptuous visit to the Virginia<br />
Museum of Fine Arts with Beth<br />
Montgomery to appreciate Edward<br />
Hopper and the American Hotel. I<br />
found deep inspiration in Kehinde<br />
Wiley’s Rumors of War, a monument<br />
to inclusivity that depicts a<br />
broad vision of what it means to be<br />
American. I am the primary caregiver<br />
for Roger who continues recovery<br />
from a 2019 bone marrow transplant<br />
and have my own medicinal side gig<br />
babysitting grandson Hampton (15<br />
months) on Wednesdays. Take care<br />
and be safe everyone.”<br />
Margaret McFaddin: “I am still<br />
working from home as a housing/<br />
homeless programs consultant gradually<br />
cutting back my hours. Thankfully,<br />
all members of my family are<br />
healthy. I spent a long weekend in<br />
Mexico with Jody Anderson Wharton<br />
and Kathleen Ryan just prior to<br />
the travel ban for COVID-19. We<br />
had a great time indulging in margaritas<br />
and relaxing on the beach.<br />
Spring/summer I was busy with<br />
building a new family beach house<br />
on the site of our old house that was<br />
torn down. I am hoping to celebrate<br />
Thanksgiving there, but COVID-19<br />
may have other plans! Jody and I also<br />
enjoyed our annual time together at<br />
Pawleys Island, SC. We decided it<br />
Gail Ann Zarwell Winkler ’75 and husband John in Montana<br />
was safer to spend our time outside<br />
on the beach, in the sun and breathing<br />
ocean air! (But no hugging!) Pre<br />
COVID-19, Sister Jane (SBC ’73)<br />
and I attended <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Day in<br />
Charleston, SC. It was great fun to<br />
reconnect with old friends and meet<br />
new ones. I wish everyone well and<br />
look forward to gathering again at<br />
SBC.”<br />
Elizabeth Montgomery:<br />
“During COVID-19, I have spent<br />
most of my time on my sun porch in<br />
my treehouse watching the birds, doing<br />
puzzles, crosswords, reading and<br />
playing bridge online. I’ve also gotten<br />
out to go for long walks and go<br />
swimming. I have spent many hours<br />
watching lots of movies and TV—all<br />
in the name of research for my acting<br />
career—which is non-existent (as is<br />
the rest of Hollywood) for right now.<br />
My timing for leaving LA two years<br />
ago was perfect! In early March I<br />
went on a fascinating trip to Egypt<br />
with a cruise on the Nile. Although<br />
we were called home three days early<br />
because of COVID-19, we basically<br />
saw 90% of what we were expecting<br />
to see.”<br />
Denise Montgomery: “My father<br />
died just a month short of his<br />
95th birthday in December 2019,<br />
and his sister died in February <strong>2020</strong><br />
just two months short of her 100th<br />
birthday. I’ve had to cancel several<br />
trips aside from our reunion, and<br />
the only trips I’ve been on were a<br />
trip to Portugal in March 2019, a<br />
trip to San Francisco in September<br />
2019 where I saw Hamilton, a trip<br />
to Indiana for my father’s memorial<br />
service on December 7, and my last<br />
trip for who knows how long to<br />
Philadelphia; the most exciting thing<br />
now is to make a trip to the drive-in<br />
movie near Lexington, since I’m now<br />
hunkered down in isolation in order<br />
not to get COVID-19.”<br />
Patty O’Malley Brunger: “The<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> Chix: Carol Brewer Evans,<br />
Betsy Brooks Jones, Cathie Grier<br />
Kelly, Ellen Harrison Saunders,<br />
Pamela Myre Turner and Patty<br />
O’Malley Brunger have enjoyed<br />
mini reunions via Zoom. Since we<br />
can’t travel together now it’s been fun<br />
sharing wine time virtually!”<br />
Johna Pierce Stephens: “Crazy<br />
times! Hubby (Tom Stephens)<br />
and I are renovating our home in<br />
Davidsonville, MD, and working to<br />
restore his family farm in Casanova<br />
while living in my family home<br />
outside Warrenton, VA. My sisters<br />
and I have renovated our grandfather’s<br />
home in NC after a break-in/<br />
vandalism in October 2019. Luckily,<br />
we had a good contractor who kept<br />
working after the first COVID-19<br />
shutdown so we are just about done.<br />
At the time of this writing, we have<br />
not been able to travel there to enjoy<br />
it. We are temporarily without a<br />
horse or dog, but we plan to remedy<br />
that as soon we can. Tom is a partner<br />
in LHT Consultants, a registered<br />
investment advisory firm and stays<br />
plenty busy. Rachael is program<br />
director for workforce programs<br />
with the National Governors’ Association’s<br />
Economic Opportunity/<br />
Center for Best Practices. She advises<br />
state leaders on workforce development<br />
and education policies. If<br />
anyone knows someone in VA who<br />
specializes in restoring very old windows<br />
with very old glass, please send<br />
me the contact info! I want to think<br />
someone in our class does that, but<br />
may have my memory wires crossed!<br />
Hoping for better times for all and<br />
for our next reunion!”<br />
Janet Richards Oikawa: “Our<br />
family is staying safe and healthy!<br />
Our son, David, and his wife, Miranda,<br />
were married in October<br />
2019. Everyone had a great time at<br />
the lovely wedding! We had to put<br />
down our beloved Jack Russell Terrier,<br />
Nicky, in April <strong>2020</strong>. He was<br />
our granddog for 14-½ years….RIP<br />
Nicky!”<br />
Anne Ross Shipe: “I am so disappointed<br />
we were unable to have<br />
our 45 reunion but better safe than<br />
sorry. Charlottesville awaits with<br />
trepidation the return of the first<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Janet Richards Oikawa ’75 and family at son David’s wedding Oct. 2019<br />
Grandchildren of Anne Cogswell Burris ’75, taken on Mother’s Day <strong>2020</strong><br />
Ann Wesley Ramsey ’75, husband<br />
Rocket and daughter Alden at<br />
son Garrett’s Jan. <strong>2020</strong> wedding<br />
in Nevis<br />
years at UVA but hope they have<br />
good sense. Big news in my life is that<br />
I finally retired on March 29—someone<br />
was looking out for me. It was<br />
planned six months prior, and the<br />
only disappointment was not being<br />
able to say goodbye in person to my<br />
23 ‘children’ (aka cardiology fellows<br />
to whom I was known as mom and<br />
not their education coordinator).<br />
Somehow virtual does not do it.<br />
And, even bigger news is that Rachel<br />
and Ross had a second son, Carter<br />
James Shipe, born in January, <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
He joins his older brother, Levon<br />
Welford (those that know me understand<br />
the middle name). Ross had<br />
him on the golf course at age three,<br />
and he is sinking his putts at age 3-½.<br />
Jim and I celebrated 37 years in April,<br />
albeit quiet and at home. I have kept<br />
in close touch with Betsey Clay in<br />
Madrid. Sadly, she lost her brother,<br />
Richie, earlier this year (not COVID<br />
related) but was able to visit one last<br />
time in KY prior to the COVID-19<br />
shutdown. He was a year older than<br />
most of us and was a UVA alum.<br />
Betsey and I went to St. Anne’s together<br />
so we have known each other<br />
since 1967. When Rich started at<br />
UVA we were high school seniors<br />
and well, enough said at that party.<br />
He was a great father, husband and<br />
lawyer, and we will miss him. I have<br />
kept in touch with Elaine Altice<br />
Saman and Ginny Shipe Cameron,<br />
and I feel like our SBC days were just<br />
a wink ago. I hope everyone will stay<br />
safe and 2021 will bring us all together<br />
again.”<br />
Ginny Shipe Cameron:<br />
“COVID-19 has certainly altered<br />
our lives and businesses. We have<br />
been able to stay open throughout<br />
the pandemic but with new schedules<br />
and precautions. As of this writing,<br />
we have had five sick with the<br />
virus but all mild cases. Obviously,<br />
I’m still working but missing all my<br />
fun work trips. I have managed to<br />
spend most weekends at the beach<br />
which has been a great respite from<br />
the heat and political atmosphere<br />
of DC. I am happy to report that<br />
I just had my two-year check-up<br />
at Johns Hopkins and received the<br />
great news of no cancer. (Secretary’s<br />
note: Woo-hoo to Ginny!) I still stay<br />
in touch with Betsey Clay who lost<br />
her brother Ritchie this summer. I<br />
also keep in touch with Elaine Altice<br />
Saman, Heather MacLeod Gale,<br />
Anne Ross Shipe and Helen Harrison<br />
Witty. I am happy to report that<br />
they are all doing well. Helen is head<br />
of MADD, which is an awesome<br />
tribute to her daughter who died as a<br />
result of a drunk driver. I miss everyone<br />
and can’t wait to share stories at<br />
our next reunion. Stay safe!”<br />
Terry Starke Tosh: “Louisa<br />
Dixon’s mom, Doris, turned 102<br />
on July 23, <strong>2020</strong>. What an amazing<br />
lady. Louisa does a wonderful job of<br />
keeping her healthy and happy. Sarah<br />
Dowdey and I make regular trips<br />
from Richmond to Staunton to visit<br />
with Mrs. Dixon and Louisa. Since<br />
COVID-19, she remains indoors<br />
and guests sit on the patio and chat<br />
through a screen door—safe social<br />
distance. During the shutdown, I<br />
have been able to continue my work<br />
as a landscape designer. Being outside,<br />
it is easy to remain distant. Our<br />
business was not shut down as so<br />
many were. If anyone is getting too<br />
much rain, please send it to VA! It’s<br />
getting crispy!”<br />
Gray Thomas Payne: “What<br />
started out as a promising exciting<br />
year has morphed into Groundhog<br />
Day! We were able to change<br />
our location for the summer from<br />
Nashville, TN, to Camden, ME. We<br />
will return to Nashville in Sept. to a<br />
house we purchased right before we<br />
left. I hope we will be able to find<br />
anything! Granddaughter Nell Avery<br />
arrived Sept. 21, 2019. She and<br />
her first cousins, James and Helen, all<br />
live within a mile of Tom and me in<br />
Nashville. Tom and me are enjoying<br />
watching eagles and loons out on the<br />
pond and go sailing when we can.<br />
Otherwise we are all trying to stay<br />
safe!”<br />
Dorsey Tillett Northrup: “I<br />
continue to dabble in the arts. I am<br />
painting, approaching intermediate<br />
in piano, and I am in my third year<br />
of writing a comedic novel that will<br />
never be finished! Middle child and<br />
family left Brooklyn and lived here<br />
awhile to escape COVID-19. They<br />
are now elsewhere, waiting for their<br />
second child to arrive in Oct. Then,<br />
they return here to await a vaccine<br />
and bring two kids back for me to<br />
babysit. I’m not in shape for this!<br />
Daughter Maggie was married in<br />
the forests of Flagstaff, AZ, last fall.<br />
Many friends from Boxwood came,<br />
so we held our reunion there. What<br />
a blast. I’ve also enjoyed being in<br />
touch with sophomore roomy, Celia<br />
Robertson McQueen. See you all at<br />
reunion next year!”<br />
Bonnie Walton Mayberry: “I<br />
have been retired from teaching for<br />
14 years and have loved it. Jerry has<br />
been retired for five years now. Our<br />
greatest joy is our grandchildren.<br />
Our daughter, Megan, and our sonin-law,<br />
Judson, have six adopted<br />
children: Larissa (24) from Brazil,<br />
Thaxton (13), Ashlynn (12), Platini<br />
(10 ) from the Congo, Chadrack<br />
(nine) from the Congo and Raelynn<br />
(three). Our lives and hearts are so<br />
full. In spite of the craziness of our<br />
world today, life is still good and we<br />
feel very blessed!”<br />
Ann Wesley Ramsey: “Our<br />
youngest, Garrett, married the lovely<br />
Caroline Estill in January, <strong>2020</strong>. The<br />
destination wedding took place in<br />
Nevis, and it was a beautiful setting<br />
for a small family wedding. During<br />
our isolation for COVID-19, I broke<br />
my shoulder in April. It is almost<br />
healed at the time of this writing. Be<br />
careful fellow classmates, and don’t<br />
do anything risky like opening a barn<br />
door with a buzzard on the other<br />
side. It can be quite startling, and you<br />
can fall over backwards and break a<br />
bone! Rocket and I are enjoying the<br />
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COVID-19 summer at our home in<br />
Manchester-by-the-Sea along with<br />
all our children and all five of our<br />
grandchildren. Now I know why<br />
God gave children to the young!<br />
But these memories, I will cherish<br />
forever.”<br />
Kathy Wilson Orton: “I hope<br />
all are safe and well. Houston is a<br />
COVID-19 hot spot so we have<br />
been avoiding it since Dec. I retired<br />
from 43 years in banking last year,<br />
and John and I have been spending<br />
more time at our home in CO. After<br />
a trip to the Caribbean in Feb., we<br />
were here skiing on March 14 when<br />
the world stopped and have been<br />
self-quarantined in Snowmass Village<br />
ever since. I am certainly not expecting<br />
any sympathy. It was a beautiful<br />
spring, and we have been hiking,<br />
biking and playing lots of golf since<br />
June. If anyone is near Snowmass,<br />
CO, let me know.”<br />
Wendy Wise Routh: “We are<br />
hunkered down in Water Mill, NY.<br />
John Carlos lost his position with<br />
Grow with Google in April. During<br />
his time there he managed to visit all<br />
50 states and see the start of the Iditarod<br />
in AK. Lexie is still working<br />
at The Broadway League, but she is<br />
working remotely in the barn on our<br />
property. Carlos is working hard, and<br />
all I do is clean, laundry and cook!<br />
I’m loving having us all together! All<br />
the labs are loving the undivided attention.<br />
I did see Cogs (Anne Cogswell<br />
Burris) in Charleston when I<br />
went to Jane Perry’s mother’s funeral.<br />
I had a wonderful Zoom birthday<br />
with Cogs, Ann Wesley Ramsey,<br />
Chris Hoefer Myers, Beth Montgomery<br />
and Betsy Burdge Murphy.<br />
I look forward to seeing everyone in<br />
person, but till then…stay safe and<br />
be <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> strong!”<br />
Suzanne Wright Godfrey: “It<br />
has been a quiet year since no traveling<br />
is allowed! Although we did<br />
sneak off to Houston in June to<br />
celebrate our granddaughter’s (two)<br />
birthday with her and came back<br />
unscathed. Our other son and his<br />
wife drove from Denver to spend a<br />
week with us the first of July (we had<br />
not seen them since Thanksgiving).<br />
I am still running the family timberland<br />
business along with other<br />
family affairs. My nephew and his<br />
girlfriend came from NY to stay<br />
with us from March until July when<br />
they finally decided to return to NY.<br />
We set up a room from which they<br />
could work, and we would be out<br />
of their way—seemed to work well.<br />
Although this has been a challenge<br />
for all of us, we made it through. My<br />
sister and I have been busy since last<br />
Nov. working to put our childhood<br />
home on the market. What a huge<br />
undertaking as the barn and much<br />
of the house have not been cleaned<br />
out for more than 50 years! We almost<br />
killed each other several times<br />
as we could not agree on much, and<br />
she is the best at procrastination. It<br />
has been a very difficult year from<br />
Jan.-July in that respect, but the<br />
house did sell in less than two weeks,<br />
and we closed mid-July. I am trying<br />
to learn that crazy game of golf since<br />
I can no longer play tennis. What a<br />
frustrating game! At least it gets me<br />
outside on some beautiful courses. I<br />
am also still playing bridge and doing<br />
a lot of gardening which helps<br />
to keep me sane. We are counting all<br />
our blessings as we are all healthy at<br />
the time of this writing. I hope all are<br />
doing well during this surreal time<br />
and are healthy and safe.”<br />
And I, Anne Cogswell Burris,<br />
remain your faithful (and very last<br />
minute) scribe since we were unable<br />
to select someone at the reunion that<br />
never was. I had a good time being<br />
with Ann Wesley Ramsey in Sept.<br />
2019 during a niece’s wedding at<br />
Kiawah Island. Before COVID-19<br />
entered our lives, I attended <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> Day in Charleston. I loved<br />
catching up with Margaret Mc-<br />
Faddin, her sister, Jane McFaddin<br />
’73, Tricia Barnett Greenberg ’74<br />
and Rossie Ray Spell ’74. I also<br />
enjoyed seeing fellow classmates<br />
Chris Hoefer Myers, Wesley, Beth<br />
Montgomery and Betsy Burdge<br />
Murphy at a virtual Zoom birthday<br />
celebration for Wendy Wise Routh<br />
in April. We were fortunate to have<br />
a beautiful spring in Charleston<br />
which allowed us to socially-distance<br />
visit with our grandchildren<br />
for outdoor get-togethers. We<br />
now have five grandchildren (four<br />
boys and one girl)—Thomas (seven),<br />
Birdie (four), Ben (three), Billy<br />
(two) and Charlie (one)—and they<br />
all live locally! Daughter-in-law<br />
Katie completed all treatments in<br />
Dec. and has been cancer-free for a<br />
year! Due to the cutback in elective<br />
surgeries, her breast reconstruction<br />
procedures should be completed by<br />
the end of the year. I continue to<br />
work part-time but learned during<br />
COVID-19 lockdown that I don’t<br />
really need to go into the office more<br />
than once or twice a week! Meanwhile,<br />
Lon doesn’t think he will get<br />
back into his office until the end of<br />
the year! So, I am playing lots of<br />
golf (and, no, my game has not improved),<br />
playing bridge online and<br />
helping with the grandchildren who<br />
have been out of school and/or daycare<br />
since mid-March. Although our<br />
plans and work on our new house<br />
are on hold, we hope that once this<br />
virus dies down we will be able to<br />
get back to completing our plans and<br />
maybe even break ground! It is most<br />
obvious from all the notes that our<br />
lives have been greatly affected in the<br />
past year. May we find ourselves in<br />
a much better place this time next<br />
year. Many thanks to all for your<br />
quick responses and your kind and<br />
thoughtful words of encouragement.<br />
Stay safe and healthy!<br />
1976<br />
Peggy Weimer Parrish<br />
1301 Sycamore Square Dr.<br />
Midlothian, VA 23113<br />
peggyparrish@gmail.com<br />
Debbie Mutch Olander writes<br />
that quarantine has been just fine<br />
with her as she has plenty to keep<br />
herself busy and reasonably happy.<br />
She is waiting for the verdict on dialysis.<br />
She just became a great aunt for<br />
the second time with another Vixen,<br />
Margaret Fox Reck, born last week<br />
at Johns Hopkins. The family thus<br />
increases, which is very exciting.<br />
Margot Mahoney Budin and<br />
family were able to get away for a<br />
week at the beach and that really<br />
helped with the quarantine blues.<br />
She is now trying to nail down college<br />
plans on or off campus (University<br />
of Texas-Austin and St. Lawrence<br />
in NY) for her twins, and her<br />
older daughter is back in NY.<br />
Kay Ellisor Hopkins and her<br />
husband Joe have been enjoying<br />
retirement. In early March, they<br />
traveled to Kansas City to visit the<br />
World War I museum. Kay’s paternal<br />
grandfather served as a machine<br />
gunner in the St. Mihiel and<br />
Meuse-Argonne offensives, and<br />
she was in search of information to<br />
help her understand his experience<br />
since she was never able to hear firsthand<br />
accounts from him. They then<br />
traveled to Keystone, CO, to meet<br />
middle daughter, her husband and<br />
six and four-year-old granddaughters<br />
for a week. They enjoyed skiing<br />
and sledding, and everyone enjoyed<br />
tubing at a mountain-top facility. At<br />
this time, they are hoping to plan a<br />
fall road trip. The TX hill country, a<br />
visit to the painted churches of TX<br />
or a bourbon/horse country tour are<br />
possibilities, depending on how the<br />
country opens up.<br />
Cheryl Lux Cobb wrote that<br />
their lives here at the ranch haven’t<br />
really changed, as they are naturally<br />
isolated and work from home, except<br />
dealing with a one-third drop<br />
in income—extreme uncertainty<br />
regarding cattle market prices, backlogs<br />
of cattle with reduced packing<br />
plant processing; it’s a whole domino<br />
effect. On the plus, they are isolated<br />
from urban riots, in a green, beautiful,<br />
free so far from flooding or forest<br />
fire smoke, and clean environment<br />
with a nearly perfect summer with<br />
lots of hay. Daughter Elizabeth<br />
Cobb ’15 will marry her fiancé Joshua<br />
Thompson in Kansas City, MO,<br />
in Sept. Their planning sounds like<br />
getting married in wartime—uncertainties<br />
as to availability of items,<br />
services, number of people permitted<br />
at the ceremony/reception, social restrictions,<br />
etc., but they don’t want to<br />
wait another year.<br />
Ann Kiley Crenshaw is still<br />
practicing law and involved in<br />
probably too many community activities.<br />
Her son, Clarke Jr., and his<br />
wife in Dallas now have three girls.<br />
The baby was born in late Jan. and<br />
the proud grandparents have been<br />
unable to see her in person due to<br />
COVID. Her son, Gordon, and his<br />
wife live in Richmond with one baby<br />
girl and a boy on the way. Ann misses<br />
seeing friends and family! No trips<br />
this summer or UVA football in the<br />
fall. She (like most of us) is looking<br />
forward to the vaccine to put an end<br />
to this pandemic.<br />
Carol Clement Knapp and husband,<br />
Richard, celebrated their third<br />
anniversary, and are so delighted and<br />
happy to share this crazy <strong>2020</strong> quarantine<br />
with each other. They have<br />
a five-year-old granddaughter with<br />
their youngest son and daughterin-law,<br />
and are expecting their first<br />
grandchild from their oldest son and<br />
daughter-in-law in 2021 (or before).<br />
They finished decorating their new<br />
home and can finally relax outside<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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without contemplating additions,<br />
landscaping and projects. She has<br />
been teaching yoga for years and<br />
feels that it’s now time to roll up her<br />
teacher’s mat for good with the virus<br />
still haunting the world.<br />
The news from Teesie Costello<br />
Howell is her great joy at announcing<br />
she is going to be a grandmother<br />
in Dec., praying all goes well! Daughter<br />
Suzannah and her husband live<br />
in Greenville, SC. Teesie and husband<br />
Chris have been quarantining<br />
at home, from where she is working,<br />
and remain busier than ever.<br />
Lisa Schubert reported that the<br />
Cathedral of St. John the Divine in<br />
NYC, where she works, closed its<br />
doors in mid-March, the first time<br />
it has been closed for an extended<br />
period since it first opened over a<br />
hundred years ago. The soup kitchen<br />
has continued providing meals each<br />
Sunday to people whose circumstances<br />
are challenging even during<br />
the best of times. Life for Lisa, as it is<br />
for so many, is filled with scheduled<br />
Zoom gatherings, work and social.<br />
A highpoint of these gatherings is a<br />
weekly check-in with Holly Weaver<br />
Kenreich, Liz Farmer Jarvis and<br />
Jill Wentworth Wright. Since Lisa<br />
has mostly stayed confined in her<br />
apartment with a windowsill full<br />
of houseplants, it has been her joy<br />
to see the gardens that have been<br />
created by Jill, Liz and Holly. Jill is<br />
a master landscape artist, and her<br />
deep knowledge of color and flowering<br />
plants are an inspiration. Lisa<br />
keeps in touch with Mary Jane Hipp<br />
Brock ’70, who serves on the board<br />
of the cathedral, and who for years<br />
has brought magic to people of all<br />
ages through her work with clowns,<br />
puppeteers, magicians and the circus.<br />
While Lisa finds it difficult to<br />
imagine what is ahead, COVID<br />
has shown her how little—beyond<br />
friendship—she really needs!<br />
Gina Spangler Polley has used<br />
the quarantine to further her education;<br />
she will be attending USC<br />
Gould School of Law this fall in their<br />
online Master of Studies of Law<br />
(MSL) program, which will give her<br />
a legal education but not qualify her<br />
for the bar in TN. Gina is still riding<br />
but many shows have been cancelled.<br />
She and her husband still travel, but<br />
mainly short trips to resorts where<br />
they can take their dog!<br />
As for me, Peggy Weimer Parrish,<br />
this will be the last class notes<br />
I will have the privilege of writing<br />
due to our upcoming reunion (45!)<br />
in 2021. I have so much enjoyed getting<br />
to learn of your news and appreciate<br />
the opportunity! Like many of<br />
you, I have learned to Zoom when<br />
my classes at John Tyler Community<br />
<strong>College</strong> (where I teach) abruptly<br />
went online in March when I returned<br />
from spring break. I stay in<br />
touch with Teesie Costello Howell,<br />
Margaret Milnor Mallory and<br />
MaryBeth Hamlin Finke via email,<br />
phone calls and texts. I recently spent<br />
a lovely weekend with Elliott Graham<br />
Schoenig at her farm in Charlottesville<br />
with JoElla Schneider<br />
Samp ’77. Since my sons are in New<br />
Orleans and Seattle, I have filled my<br />
spare time fostering kittens for Richmond<br />
Animal League; kittens are<br />
the antidote to COVID-19!<br />
1977<br />
Dee Hubble Dolan<br />
451 Dunlin Ct.<br />
Midlothian, VA 23114<br />
hubble43@yahoo.com<br />
The first half of this year will certainly<br />
go in the history books. Unfortunately,<br />
many of our classmates<br />
who regularly get together were unable<br />
to in <strong>2020</strong> so far. Let’s hope this<br />
changes for the later part of the year.<br />
Molly Reeb Nissman, our class<br />
president, married Harry Lehman<br />
November of 2019 after 10 years<br />
of courtship. They have six children<br />
and nine grandchildren between<br />
them. Molly finished her MBA from<br />
William & Mary after five long years<br />
while working. She is still a financial<br />
advisor with UBS and lives in Virginia<br />
Beach.<br />
Sally Bonham Mohle said the<br />
only news she has is that a dear family<br />
friend turned 100 years old on July<br />
14, 20!<br />
Linda Uihlein welcomed her<br />
first heritage Dutch Belted bull calf<br />
to Little Owl Natural Farm on July<br />
5. She competes for Dolly’s milk<br />
with her herd of shared customers.<br />
She has made a good homemade yogurt<br />
starter, but not as good as <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>’s she admits, and has also started<br />
making cheese. She has Heritage<br />
Hog Island ewe lambs, laying hens,<br />
guineas, polo and a cat around the<br />
farm. All are welcome to visit!<br />
Anne Rubel Waddell reports<br />
that most of her COVID time has<br />
been spent mostly painting horses.<br />
She is proud to have been married<br />
to her loving husband, Jim, for 34<br />
years. She is now a grandmother of<br />
a beautiful baby boy. Anne stays in<br />
touch with Toni Bredin Massie who<br />
is doing well.<br />
Debi Butteri Akers is now living<br />
in Atlanta, GA, with her husband of<br />
many years. Debi is a personal shopper<br />
and dressed for her son, Cooper’s,<br />
wedding a couple of years ago.<br />
Libby White Drbal and Doug<br />
are loving their lives in CO and<br />
taking advantage of fly fishing, skiing,<br />
and even went to a dude ranch<br />
in Jackson Hole a couple of years<br />
ago. Frequent visitors to their yard<br />
are bobcats, coyotes, wild turkeys,<br />
hawks, owls, mule deer and an occasional<br />
black bear. Their boys, Drew<br />
(30) and Tyler (28) are happily employed<br />
in Atlanta, GA. Her biggest<br />
news is they have become parents<br />
again with a 3-month-old Golden<br />
Retriever named Brewzer. Libby skis<br />
with Vivian Yamaguchi Cohn every<br />
winter and always stays in touch<br />
with Jo Jo Scott, Maggie Shriver,<br />
and Keedie Grones Leonard ’76. She<br />
reports that Robin Cramer’s mother,<br />
Rejji, is still living in CT at 90 years<br />
of age.<br />
Catherine Goodhart Henson<br />
wanted us to be aware that Atlanta<br />
has a ‘living room learning’ get<br />
together every Jan. (pre-COVID).<br />
The program has become so popular<br />
they now meet at the Atlanta History<br />
Center. She recently saw Helen<br />
Milner Gordon and Louise Aiken<br />
Calhoun who are doing well.<br />
Ellen Sellers McDowell’s daughter,<br />
Ginny, got married last Oct. to<br />
Mark Martinson (UVA ’01) whose<br />
grandmother, Helen Ann Littleton<br />
’40, went to SBC! They are living in<br />
Dallas. Emily is still in Portland, OR,<br />
with her husband, Alex Cameron.<br />
They have two children, Alice who is<br />
2-½ years old and her new brother,<br />
Henry (six months). Mary Susan<br />
and her husband, Sam Hunter, live<br />
in Midland, TX, with their son,<br />
Sam, who is 18 months old. Their<br />
youngest daughter, Kate (28), have<br />
moved to Leesburg, VA, where she<br />
is managing two farms for the nonprofit<br />
A Farm Less Ordinary. Rex is<br />
semi-retired, and Ellen is working<br />
part-time at the cooking school.<br />
Barbara Bernick Peyronnet<br />
and Doug’s youngest daughter, Annie,<br />
married Hunter last Nov. She<br />
teaches fifth grade while Hunter is<br />
an assistant manager for Woodcraft<br />
and owns 13 Oaks Woodshop where<br />
he makes beautiful furniture. Maggie<br />
and her husband live in Charleston,<br />
SC, and are expecting their first child<br />
in Dec. Barb continues to volunteer<br />
at church and play golf, while Doug<br />
is still active with his band, The<br />
Common Folk. In the past couple<br />
of years, I have downsized my rescue<br />
animal herd from 22 to three,<br />
sold the farm, and live in a condo in<br />
Midlothian, VA. I’ve decided to simplify<br />
my life, so I am retiring from<br />
Brandermill Woods in one week!<br />
I do have a cottage in St. Michael’s,<br />
MD, where I see Nina Baker Neal<br />
several times a month. Let’ all pray<br />
we remain healthy and safe to report<br />
additional news in the spring! Love<br />
to all, D. Hubble Dolan<br />
1978<br />
Suzanne Stryker Ullrich<br />
820 Waverly Road<br />
Kennett Square, PA 19348<br />
suzullrich@aol.com<br />
I suppose the real start for these<br />
class notes should be “How many<br />
things did you have to cancel or postpone?”<br />
There were weddings, graduations<br />
and birthdays and vacations<br />
that had to take a back seat to life in<br />
general. Life in the time of COVID,<br />
who’d a thunk it? But as Mary Page<br />
Stewart wrote, “there are plenty of<br />
dark clouds with COVID, but my<br />
challenge is to find the silver lining<br />
in all this.” True, and I bet that as<br />
we all reflect back, we will be able to<br />
do the same. How many of us have<br />
a more organized house or closets?<br />
How many have learned a new skill<br />
or craft? Did you learn how to stay<br />
close with a new form of technology?<br />
Yes, the world changed, dramatically,<br />
but the connections we were able to<br />
maintain are what really mattered.<br />
Perhaps our focus became a little<br />
sharper as we all navigated through,<br />
remembering the important things<br />
in life.<br />
As for Mary Page Stewart’s<br />
silver linings, she has “painted two<br />
commissions that have been on<br />
the back burner for months, read<br />
through my book pile, took out a<br />
shell of a doll house from a closet<br />
and had a ball building it, furnishing<br />
it, making food out of clay, and
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making bed linens from my mother’s<br />
old monogrammed tea towels. The<br />
house’s address is 202 Silver Linings<br />
Way!” Besides all the crafty things<br />
undertaken, MP stayed in touch via<br />
Zoom calls (“more connection than<br />
ever before!”) and had her daughter<br />
and family come to Baltimore for<br />
three weeks to get away from Houston.<br />
That was her best silver lining of<br />
all! A trip to the zoo, with all wearing<br />
their masks, gave pause for reflection.<br />
Cathy Mellow Golterman said<br />
her time will be remembered as<br />
“putting our home on the market<br />
and downsizing, falling down the<br />
stairs when decluttering, breaking a<br />
toe, having a tear in her rotator cuff<br />
and going to therapy!” At the time,<br />
Cathy’s school was still not sure if<br />
they were going to reopen, so she<br />
decided she would continue nannying<br />
and dog sitting full time. After<br />
graduating cum laude from WMU<br />
Law School, son Woody was going<br />
to take the bar exam sometime in<br />
the fall and “the jury is still out on<br />
where he will be practicing” after<br />
that. Daughter Catherine is working<br />
with special needs children, while<br />
Christen works with her husband<br />
Peter at American Insurance Co.<br />
part time. Husband Chris remains<br />
busy at Commerce Bank, but they<br />
found time to get out on the boat<br />
during the summer, while anticipating<br />
a 38th wedding anniversary!<br />
Donna Mihalik Gelogotis Lee<br />
and husband Dennis are both writers,<br />
both experiencing some notoriety!<br />
Dennis’s manuscript Tidal<br />
Wave! won the <strong>2020</strong> Morgenthau<br />
III Poetry Prize (Passager Books)<br />
while Donna’s book, Intersection<br />
on Neptune (The Poetry Press of<br />
Press Americana, 2019) which won<br />
the Prize Americana, was reviewed<br />
in Presence: A Journey of Catholic<br />
Poetry and in Sticks and Stones, a<br />
newsletter. This book is also being<br />
used in a creative writing course at<br />
the university level! Donna reported<br />
that she is happy to report that<br />
many other poems and collections<br />
she has written appear in numerous<br />
journals and online. Look for her<br />
Typewriter in Aji magazine, Your<br />
Father in Feminist Fathering/Fathering<br />
Feminists: New Definitions<br />
and Directions (Demeter Press), To<br />
Nostalgia, Spasm, and The Cross of<br />
Time appearing in TRANSverse,<br />
an online journal, issue 18. Another<br />
poem, Living Without Fear of the<br />
Air appeared online in North of<br />
Oxford—The Pandemic, issue #4.<br />
Kudos to Donna and Dennis!<br />
Katherine Powell Heller admitted<br />
that her <strong>2020</strong> day planner was<br />
her most underutilized purchase of<br />
the year, usually a source of newsworthy<br />
moments! However, the<br />
most fantastic event of the COVID<br />
times was the birth of her and John’s<br />
first grandchild, Virginia Carrington<br />
George, on April 24. “She came a<br />
month early and was delivered in<br />
Emory’s midtown hospital which is<br />
the designated COVID intake hospital<br />
for the Emory system, so naturally<br />
we were concerned. Turned out<br />
the hospital was a ghost town at that<br />
point of the epidemic as Emory had<br />
stopped all elective surgeries and it<br />
was before many hospitalizations for<br />
COVID were needed in Georgia.”<br />
May might have been another story!<br />
Fortunately, Katherine and John had<br />
been following all the Emory protocols<br />
and general social distancing<br />
rules and were able to see and interact<br />
with their granddaughter. They<br />
have already had babysitting stents<br />
and are loving every minute of it!<br />
Melanie Bowen Steglich had<br />
plenty of time to reflect on 40 years<br />
of marriage, working full time, side by<br />
side with Lee in his dental practice.<br />
Their Aug. 2 anniversary reminded<br />
Melanie of it being “extremely hot<br />
in Macon, GA, that day in 1980 as<br />
Drusie Hall Bishop, Cathy Patton<br />
Foose, Mary Moore Garrison,<br />
Frances Biggers Flock ’79, and Alice<br />
Benton Major ’79 surely remember!”<br />
As for working in a dental office, life<br />
after 20 years in the apparel industry<br />
has changed a bit! “My new attire<br />
is now scrubs, gloves and masks!”<br />
and also admitting that she, not the<br />
patients, has been the one blessed<br />
through this experience. Melanie<br />
continues to communicate with all<br />
of their Taiwanese kids through<br />
LINE, sharing a continuous stream<br />
of pictures and videos of all of the<br />
grandchildren. “I still think we are<br />
going to win the Guinness Book of<br />
World Records for the most grandkids!”<br />
Melanie closed with prayers<br />
for good health and safety for all, and<br />
“ain’t we still great!”<br />
Cassandra Smith Babbitt is<br />
very busy with her quilting business<br />
in ME, Fiddlehead Quilts, and<br />
stated “it turns out that a pandemic<br />
is good for business! But I think I<br />
would rather have less business and<br />
Mary Page Stewart ’78 and grandkids at the zoo<br />
Mary Goodwin Gamper ’78 and<br />
Mimi Borst Quillman ’78 hiking<br />
in NH<br />
no pandemic.” On the bright side, her<br />
husband is home from Saudi Arabia<br />
for a while, but she still can’t see her<br />
granddaughters or son, as they don’t<br />
live in the U.S.<br />
Paula Brown Kelley and Jack<br />
had her mother staying with them<br />
for a few weeks after a surgery. Luckily,<br />
they live within eye-shot from<br />
each other, across a pond, so when<br />
her mother returned to her own<br />
house, Paula could still be there to<br />
help when needed.<br />
Becky Mulvihill McKenna has<br />
had a busy year, despite COVID.<br />
Becky and extended family were able<br />
to spend a week in Guatemala where<br />
her daughter, Katie, had spent time<br />
in the Peace Corps. Katie loved the<br />
area so much that she and her fiancé<br />
chose the site for their wedding! A<br />
destination wedding provided many<br />
great memories! The post-COVID<br />
whirlwind continued at the end<br />
of May when youngest daughter,<br />
Erin, had their first baby in Seattle.<br />
“I wasn’t able to be with her for the<br />
birth, but our whole family decided<br />
to drive across the country to get to<br />
visit Memphis,” their new grandson.<br />
Everyone made sure they tested negative<br />
before arriving! The 4000-mile<br />
roundtrip was an “epic journey, but<br />
we loved every minute of it! It was<br />
like having Christmas in June!” Middle<br />
daughter, Maggie, was expecting<br />
a second child in Sept. so Becky<br />
was already anticipating another<br />
road-trip to Minneapolis! Becky<br />
spoke of having to convert her private<br />
practice, graduate teaching and<br />
workshops all to online format, “a<br />
task I did not take to very well, but<br />
I have crossed over and survived!”<br />
Husband, Ken, (a high school counselor)<br />
was gearing up to go back to<br />
school, but like so many educators,<br />
was waiting to find out how they<br />
were going to accomplish the many<br />
challenges to maintain the safety and<br />
health of both staff, faculty and kids.<br />
“Being flexible and creative is the<br />
name of the game these days! Be safe<br />
everyone!”<br />
Mary Goodwin Gamper and<br />
Mimi Borst Quillman (and spouses)<br />
were able to escape to Center<br />
Sandwich, NH, for some outdoor<br />
fun, hiking and swimming in the<br />
lake, while isolating! Dick Gamper<br />
(Maria Rixey Gamper’s husband<br />
and Mary’s brother-in-law) came<br />
up to hike as well. “I’m so tired of<br />
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Suzanne Stryker Ullrich ’78, Toni Christian Brown ’78, Jim Brown and Rick<br />
Ullrich having that first meal out, al fresco at the Southern Inn, Lexington<br />
Meg Richards Wiederseim ’78, Ginny Craig ’78, Mimi Borst Quillman ’78,<br />
Katie Keogh ’88 and Mary Goodwin Gamper attending Mimi’s son’s<br />
wedding in Jan. <strong>2020</strong><br />
quarantine, but glad to be here with<br />
good friends!” Mary’s exciting news<br />
was that her third grandchild was<br />
expected in Sept.! Mimi added that<br />
they all missed having Ginny Craig<br />
with them for their annual hiking<br />
excursion! (Another COVID cancellation!)<br />
Mimi’s new daughter-inlaw<br />
(married Ian Jan. <strong>2020</strong>), Elyse,<br />
had finished up her fellowship in<br />
glaucoma during the summer and<br />
was now on staff at Johns Hopkins<br />
in the ophthalmology department.<br />
Ian is working for the International<br />
Trade Commission in DC but, like<br />
so many others, was working from<br />
home. Mimi still works part-time for<br />
a 108-year-old wood planing mill, is<br />
president of her P.E.O. Chapter, as<br />
well as serving on her altar guild at<br />
church. When possible, Mimi loves<br />
to get together with the Philadelphia<br />
SBC Club. (Hopefully it won’t be<br />
too long until we will all be able to<br />
participate in our area club events<br />
again!)<br />
Lauren Place Young was very sad<br />
to report that Joan “Jo” Gulick Grant<br />
’50, one of her longtime and loved<br />
residents at The Greens in Hanover,<br />
NH, died in early July. Lauren continues<br />
to keep her residents at The<br />
Greens (retirement community) safe<br />
and COVID free. “So far, so good!”<br />
Muffy Hamilton Parsons reports<br />
she is going to be a MOG next<br />
year, and as expected, she is extremely<br />
excited! Younger son, Spencer,<br />
proposed to his longtime girlfriend,<br />
Devon. After traveling to Boston to<br />
help the engaged couple celebrate<br />
with both sets of parents present,<br />
Muffy was already starting to make<br />
plans!<br />
As for me, I was able to experience<br />
both sides of life’s continuum.<br />
Most of the first half of the year was<br />
spent being able to take care of my<br />
mother, for which I am profoundly<br />
grateful as I know so many families<br />
were unable to be with their loved<br />
ones. Being in a condo of her own<br />
nearby allowed us to come and go, to<br />
be with her at the end, sharing stories<br />
and favorite foods. But luckily, there<br />
was also a new arrival, grandchild<br />
#3! Our youngest, Ned, and his wife,<br />
Mariah, had Benjamin William in<br />
mid-May and were happy to be able<br />
to share that news and many Face-<br />
Time moments with Ned’s Mimi!<br />
As one life arrived, another left, sadly<br />
but peacefully, mid-June. As we were<br />
not allowed to see Benjamin for his<br />
first month, we waited until late June<br />
to travel down to Columbia, TN, to<br />
see all, as well as a few days of work<br />
on their previous house in AL, prepping<br />
it for rental! The temptation<br />
was strong to meet with fellow SBC<br />
’78 classmates in nearby Nashville,<br />
but that would have to wait! I was<br />
able to have a long chat with Drusie<br />
Hall Bishop while driving back<br />
north, laughing the whole time, of<br />
course! And thank goodness for<br />
Toni Christian Brown and Jim!<br />
How nice that Lexington is a halfway<br />
point! A good snooze in the<br />
apartment above the shed, and coffee<br />
on the patio, as well as a dinner at<br />
The Southern Inn al fresco made the<br />
ride down and back so much more<br />
enjoyable! We earned our keep, helping<br />
tie up tomato plants and sunflowers!<br />
After traveling for so much<br />
of his career, Rick has been home<br />
since early March and while chomping<br />
at the bit, hasn’t gone crazy yet!<br />
So, as always, many thanks to<br />
all who continue to stay in touch!<br />
While our COVID world continues<br />
to separate us, there have been<br />
opportunities for Zoom coffee hours<br />
in the morning and happy hours in<br />
the evening! May they all continue<br />
when we can’t physically be together!<br />
Muffy, Anne Taylor Quarles Doolittle<br />
and I were so disappointed to<br />
have to cancel our planned mini-reunion<br />
but have already started<br />
talking about rescheduling for some<br />
time in the future, while also scheming<br />
for our 45th, which is only three<br />
years away! Stay tuned! Continue to<br />
be well and safe as you navigate this<br />
new world of ours. And continue to<br />
be in touch with your Class of ’78<br />
and other SBC sisters! Hugs. P.S.<br />
ATQ will be having an art show on<br />
campus this fall, so if you are on the<br />
road and can, call ahead and stop by!<br />
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Katie Ewald: “My mother class<br />
of ’52 has continued to fund the<br />
Ewald Scholars Program, which<br />
brings renowned scientists and authors<br />
to campus for a speakers forum.<br />
You may remember in 1979<br />
Jane Goodall spoke about the origin<br />
of man being from apes. And Richard<br />
Leakie, an anthropologist, spoke<br />
about discovering Lucy the oldest<br />
skeleton found to prove man did not<br />
come from monkeys!<br />
The recent forum was the author<br />
of Code Girls, the untold story of<br />
the American women who broke the<br />
codes during WWII. Please be generous<br />
to <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, so women can<br />
grow and learn like we were able to<br />
do! I bought a 1947 Willys Jeepster<br />
convertible to carry me through after<br />
my second divorce. I lead hikes on<br />
the Vermont mountains with social<br />
distancing and still live on my horse<br />
farm (with no horses though).”<br />
Hannah Craighill Morehead:<br />
“So my big news is that Chip and I<br />
became grandparents this year! Henry<br />
Somervell Pope (Hank) was born<br />
in late March, and needless to say, is<br />
adorable! Our daughter, Sarah, and<br />
her husband, Matt, and our son, Ben,<br />
all live here in Baltimore.”<br />
Piper Allen Severns: “I finished<br />
the last nine weeks of our academic<br />
year last year with online learning<br />
for my 18 kindergartners. It was<br />
quite the learning curve for me, my<br />
students and their parents but we<br />
figured it out and got into a routine.<br />
While it wasn’t ideal, we found ways<br />
to keep up the academic rigor but<br />
also have some fun and do some cooperative<br />
learning. Since we live on a<br />
large lake, I was able to avoid cabin<br />
fever during the stay at home period<br />
by taking nice long paddleboard<br />
rides with my lab, Reagan, or having<br />
a quarantini (or two!) with my husband<br />
while cruising on our boat. I<br />
am glad to live in the great state of<br />
FL which has been opening in a sane,<br />
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rational way and is now almost back<br />
to normal. Everyone is waiting with<br />
bated breath, though, to hear what<br />
school will be like in the fall. In the<br />
meantime, I have taken advantage of<br />
my Second Amendment rights and<br />
purchased a handgun. I am having a<br />
great time learning how to use it and<br />
getting better and better at the gun<br />
range. It is a blast!”<br />
Saralee Cowles Boteler: “Finally<br />
bought my longtime lease horse last<br />
year (16-year old Crabbet Arabian<br />
gelding.) We’ve retired from jumpers<br />
and have taken up dressage. A<br />
serious fall off the horse kept me out<br />
of the saddle this spring, but with<br />
Louise Mueller Cook’s (79) encouragement,<br />
Prince and I are having fun<br />
with natural horsemanship. Thank<br />
goodness for texting friends and the<br />
barn during quarantine! Wishes to<br />
you and your family for a safe and<br />
healthy summer, fall and beyond!”<br />
Susan Andrews Cruess: “ We<br />
are bored but doing fine despite the<br />
coronavirus situation. We moved<br />
last Aug., just four blocks away but<br />
into a newer house. Got lots of questions<br />
from friends about upsizing,<br />
but when everything shut down, we<br />
realized it was our best decision in<br />
a long time! Lots of room to spread<br />
out and a beautiful garden with a<br />
view of the Glenmore Reservoir<br />
to help our outlook while we were<br />
stuck at home. Lots of travel plans<br />
have been cancelled or postponed<br />
including my nephew’s wedding in<br />
Savannah, so we’re looking forward<br />
to whenever we can travel again.<br />
We had been in Scottsdale when<br />
everything started looking bad, so<br />
we headed home early and started<br />
our two-week quarantine on arrival.<br />
Luckily neither of us were sick<br />
and Alberta now has asymptomatic<br />
testing available, so we both got tested<br />
before we hit the road last week<br />
to come to Leigh’s family cottage in<br />
eastern Ontario. That 34-hour drive<br />
seems to be longer every year! But<br />
our dogs were great travelers and<br />
we even packed lunch to avoid too<br />
many food stops. Leigh’s parents are<br />
both 90, so we wanted to be extra<br />
careful on the trip! We’re in a separate<br />
cottage but have been enjoying<br />
lots of food and great wine with his<br />
parents. Our oldest son, Jim, and his<br />
wife, Kate, live in Toronto (about a<br />
six hour drive away), so they already<br />
stayed up here for four weeks in June<br />
since they were working from home.<br />
They are back in Toronto because<br />
the courts are open and Jim had to<br />
prosecute some cases, but he has a<br />
gap in trials during Aug. so they can<br />
isolate for a while before joining us<br />
at the cottage for a week. Andrew<br />
had been planning to come but decided<br />
the flight plus getting through<br />
two airports was too risky in case<br />
he was exposed and got us sick, so<br />
he’s staying in Calgary. We’ll be here<br />
for a month before starting the long<br />
drive home. We usually come back<br />
through the upper peninsula of<br />
MI for a change of scenery but the<br />
border is still closed, so we’ll stay in<br />
Canada for the return trip. Obviously,<br />
no big plans ahead but I sure hope<br />
we have a warmer fall so we can continue<br />
to get together with friends for<br />
outdoor cocktails!”<br />
Tricia Paterson Graham: “In<br />
January <strong>2020</strong>, Duane and I went to<br />
Park City, UT, to attend a friend’s<br />
wedding. We went horseback riding<br />
in the snow and cross-country<br />
skiing. A fun trip! In June, my son,<br />
Paterson, and his family moved to<br />
New Orleans from Charleston. I am<br />
so glad that they are two hours away<br />
from us instead of 10 hours. It is easier<br />
to visit with our grandsons, Henry<br />
and Peter. Peter celebrated his first<br />
birthday in June. Henry will be three<br />
years old in Dec. Paterson relocated<br />
to New Orleans to start his threeyear<br />
cardiology fellowship at Tulane.<br />
During the pandemic, I have cleaned<br />
out rooms and closets. Plus, I have<br />
read some good books. Stay safe and<br />
healthy!”<br />
Susan Anthony Lineberry:<br />
“Neal and I have both retired, and<br />
prior to COVID, we traveled to<br />
Denver to visit son Mark’s family,<br />
to Philadelphia for the Army Navy<br />
Game, Los Angeles to see our granddaughter<br />
Claire perform on Disney’s<br />
Fam Jam and to Florida to see some<br />
Major League Baseball spring training<br />
games. I guess we got traveling<br />
out of our system while we could.<br />
Since then, we have been in fixer-upper<br />
mode and are putting our house<br />
on the market soon. I have recently<br />
been able to catch up with some of<br />
my SBC pals through Zoom. It’s<br />
been great seeing them and interesting<br />
sharing quarantine stories. I pray<br />
everyone has survived these trying<br />
times.”<br />
Jeanette Rowe Cadwallender:<br />
“Our garden has never looked so<br />
good with the COVID-19 attention<br />
it received. We’ve managed a<br />
few visits with our grandsons which<br />
has helped lift our spirits. I have<br />
continued to do volunteer work for<br />
the Garden Club of Virginia. Most<br />
recently, I wrote the exhibition catalog<br />
for A Landscape Saved: The<br />
Garden Club of Virginia at 100 at<br />
the Virginia Museum of History<br />
and Culture.”<br />
Karen Jaffa McGoldrick: “Lawrence<br />
and I are still adjusting to our<br />
life in retirement after selling the<br />
farm and moving to a smaller house.<br />
We still live in horse country and I<br />
have my one horse Gia who I board<br />
nearby. I rely on my rides for both<br />
exercise and a social outlet and of<br />
course for the mental and physical<br />
challenge that comes with the study<br />
and practice of dressage. I think of<br />
Paul Cronin often, because although<br />
I no longer jump, I still love my field<br />
riding and every day I finish my ride<br />
with a hack, and once a week I do<br />
fitness sets on the hill. I still love a<br />
gallop and it’s healthy for Gia to<br />
stretch out outside the arena and<br />
work over the uneven terrain. That<br />
is something gained from my time<br />
at SBC that has stayed with me. I<br />
am coming down the homestretch<br />
on writing another novel. After reunion<br />
last year Lawrence and I made<br />
a pilgrimage to Charlottesville, Monticello,<br />
and the location of the Albemarle<br />
Barracks, all spots that are<br />
important to my story, places that I<br />
know and love, and wanted to revisit.<br />
The reading that I have done to<br />
be able to tell an authentic (I hope)<br />
story has been fascinating. Although<br />
we are homebound like most of the<br />
globe right now, I stay in touch with<br />
many of you on Facebook, including<br />
my dear friend and SBC roomie,<br />
Prudence Saunders Pitcock, whose<br />
hubby Wade also has retired. Prue<br />
has two mustangs that she adores,<br />
so she, too, is still riding. She and<br />
Wade have done a lot of hiking and<br />
camping, with some glamping, too,<br />
and she has shared beautiful photos<br />
of mountain scenes and lakes on her<br />
Facebook page.”<br />
SallyAnn Sells Bensur: “Greetings<br />
from Pittsburgh where we are<br />
slowly emerging from COVID yellow<br />
status. We were fortunate to<br />
weather COVID lockdown in Key<br />
Largo and returned to Pittsburgh<br />
in May. Our two children work in<br />
Washington, DC. Our daughter<br />
works for CoStar and is engaged<br />
to be married next spring; we are<br />
thrilled to welcome Leo to our family.<br />
Our son works on the hill for a<br />
congressman from TN and enjoys<br />
his bachelor status! Bill and I spend<br />
our leisure time traveling, playing<br />
golf and fly fishing. I am also proud<br />
to serve on the board of The Neighborhood<br />
Academy, a grade six-12<br />
independent school for underserved<br />
minority students in Pittsburgh.<br />
In these divisive days in the US,<br />
the mission and outcomes of The<br />
Neighborhood Academy have never<br />
been more relevant for our students.<br />
Please drop me a line if your plans<br />
ever bring you through Pittsburgh. I<br />
would love to catch up with all AIS<br />
classmates!”<br />
Becky Trulove Symons: “I hated<br />
that I missed reunion at the last<br />
minute but was in the throes of<br />
planning a wedding for my oldest<br />
daughter Sally. I was so happy to<br />
attend the wedding of Grier Gardner<br />
in Savannah in May. She is the<br />
daughter of Bridget Wray Gardner<br />
and many SBC alums were there<br />
including Bridget’s sisters Lisa and<br />
Barbara Burns, Mary Cowell Sharpe,<br />
Mary South Gaab and Kathy Pittman<br />
Moore. I loved having Bridget,<br />
Ashley Wilson Brook, Mary Cowell<br />
Sharpe and Sally Colhoun Engram<br />
join us in Winston-Salem in Sept.<br />
for our wedding. I’m up for a mini<br />
reunion!”<br />
E. Conner Kelly: “2019 has been<br />
a busy year with son Patrick’s March<br />
17 wedding to his college sweetheart,<br />
Katey, my father’s 75th Kentucky<br />
Derby and son Teague’s Oberlin<br />
<strong>College</strong> graduation. Patrick is a<br />
rocket scientist in LA. And reunion,<br />
too! What a blessing. Then I spent<br />
four months in NZ teaching dance/<br />
movement therapy at Auckland University.<br />
Still live in Guam and scuba<br />
dive most weekends plus dive trips to<br />
places like Palau, Yap and the Philippines.<br />
We are enjoying the Pacific!<br />
And I still practice, supervise and<br />
teach dance/movement therapy. In<br />
the next few years we will return to<br />
NZ.”<br />
Mary Gaab: “We are now in<br />
West Palm Beach. Loving it! We are<br />
also proud grandparents for the first<br />
time. Terry and I have been blessed<br />
to be able to see Sefa grow day by<br />
day. They will soon be moving to Orlando.<br />
Very sad for us. But now our<br />
guest room is now open for visitors.<br />
Hope all are safe!”<br />
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Lauren McMannis Huyett: Hi<br />
there! Yes, what a strange time! In a<br />
way it has been good. Three of my<br />
kids are now engaged to be married<br />
in the next year or so, partly due to<br />
travel restrictions and the COVID<br />
outbreak. We also now have a second<br />
granddaughter, Hannah, who<br />
joins big sister Charlotte, 21 months.<br />
They live in Wayland, the next town<br />
over from Concord. We have had all<br />
of our other four kids living with us<br />
for the past few months, either here<br />
or at our house on the Cape. Family<br />
time has been amazing.”<br />
Deborah Gibbs Parker: “I am<br />
still practicing law in Baton Rouge,<br />
LA, trying to plan my exit in the near<br />
future. My husband, Vance, is still<br />
practicing law as well. My daughter,<br />
Martha, and her husband, Dan, live<br />
in Richmond, VA, and have two<br />
children, three and one, and they are<br />
a joy to us when we are able to visit.<br />
Our middle child, Parker, married in<br />
Jan. 2019, and he and his wife live in<br />
New Orleans; our oldest daughter,<br />
Elisa, moved back to Baton Rouge<br />
in June 2018 after years in Houston<br />
and New Orleans, married in Nov.<br />
2019, with baby girl expected Oct. 8,<br />
<strong>2020</strong>. So, we will have a grandchild<br />
in Baton Rouge. Jan. <strong>2020</strong> LSU beat<br />
Alabama for the national championship,<br />
and I was kind to Carol<br />
Williamson, as she has been to me<br />
for many years! We have a flurry of<br />
texts during the LSU/AL game each<br />
year. I had Covid-19 in March, and<br />
the rest of <strong>2020</strong> so far seems to be<br />
all about the pandemic! I hope all of<br />
our classmates are well and that the<br />
vaccine comes soon.”<br />
Betsy Byrne Utterback: “Let’s<br />
see. I gained weight during quarantine.<br />
My eldest, James, his wife and<br />
two kids (six and four) fled NYC and<br />
lived with us from mid-March-June.<br />
Many Zoom meetings, first grade<br />
Zooms filled the days. That was the<br />
silver lining. Prior to COVID, we<br />
traveled to Argentina and Uruguay,<br />
spent Christmas in Carmel with<br />
Jim’s sister. We spent New Year’s<br />
here in SC with Sally Ann and Bill<br />
Bensur. I had a quick visit to Palm<br />
Beach and saw Laura Evans in May.<br />
I was in LA to visit my daughter and<br />
son-in-law a few times and Yardley,<br />
PA, to see son Chris and his family<br />
(including my two little granddaughters)<br />
2019-<strong>2020</strong> before March<br />
where I would see Julie Muchmore<br />
Cooney, as well. My design business<br />
has been busy now that everyone is<br />
stuck at home! Bottom line, we are<br />
all healthy, happy, never bored and<br />
feel very fortunate that we can still<br />
exercise, play golf and tennis down<br />
here. Praying that a vaccine is developed<br />
soon. Two of our three kids live<br />
in big cities (NY and LA) and it is<br />
awful to be so on guard and nervous<br />
about contracting the virus.”<br />
Amy Smith: “It’s been an interesting<br />
year so far. My dad turned 95!<br />
He’s in good health, body and mind.<br />
We adopted a dog and are enjoying<br />
having a puppy. I taught myself how<br />
to do pour painting and have decorated<br />
the walls of our newly renovated<br />
bathroom. My dad also just finished<br />
a painting. His is Mesa Verde,<br />
a place we liked to visit when we<br />
lived in CO. I was able to see my best<br />
friend and roommate, Beth Bogden<br />
Tetrault, for a few minutes a month<br />
ago. I was in the Richmond area, and<br />
we met in a parking lot and talked<br />
for about a half hour, six feet apart.<br />
I really miss hugs! But it was great<br />
to see her.”<br />
Mary “Robbie” McBride Bingham:<br />
“Not much new here. Will is<br />
living in the apartment above me,<br />
which is really nice. Samuel just got<br />
to Clemson and is starting his PhD.<br />
I have not worked since March 13<br />
when PA closed the schools. Have<br />
done lots of act 48 classes, reading,<br />
and I think between me and the<br />
kids, we have every streaming service<br />
around. Have been helping a friend<br />
redo her really great garden, so that<br />
has been my outside adventure.<br />
Hope all is well with you and yours.”<br />
And as for me Anne Garrity<br />
Spees: I am weathering quarantine<br />
by baking (and eating!) and reading<br />
inordinate numbers of books.<br />
Thanks so much for sending in your<br />
notes. We got a lot more submissions<br />
this time! Hope everyone stays safe<br />
and healthy.<br />
1980<br />
Florence Rowe Barnick<br />
Phyllis Watt Jordan<br />
Amy Campbell Lamphere<br />
Megan Coffield Lyon<br />
The pandemic cancelled our<br />
40th reunion, but that didn’t stop<br />
the class from getting together on<br />
regular Zoom happy hours, socially<br />
distanced lunches and social media.<br />
We’re all hoping to be together on<br />
campus next May. These past few<br />
months brought sad news for some<br />
in our class. Classmate Felecia Bernstein<br />
died of cancer last fall. Sandra<br />
Rappaccioli Padilla lost husband<br />
Max to COVID-19, and Carson<br />
Freemon Meinen lost her sister,<br />
Kathleen Freemon ’82, to a heart attack<br />
in the spring.<br />
Others coped with these extraordinary<br />
times in their own way. Florence<br />
Rowe Barnick’s pandemic experience<br />
was going full mask factory<br />
for a few months, interrupted by her<br />
youngest son’s no-helmet skateboard<br />
accident and his remarkable recovery.<br />
She’s now getting ready for a visit<br />
from her daughter’s fiancé!<br />
Jamila Champsi is coordinating<br />
the COVID response for her hospital<br />
in South San Francisco, where<br />
she’s worked since 1996 as an infectious<br />
disease doctor. She writes that<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> gave her a strong background<br />
to succeed in medical school<br />
at University of Arizona and training<br />
at Stanford University hospital (internal<br />
medicine residency and Infectious<br />
disease fellowship).<br />
True Dow has been staying well<br />
and very busy in NH. Her family’s<br />
gymnastics school is in its 47th year<br />
and was shut up tight for 12 weeks<br />
for the first time in all those years.<br />
It has been a singularly challenging<br />
experience. No students, no income,<br />
all our normal expenses. But they are<br />
still running at about 20% capacity.<br />
Her two sons, now 27 and 29 are<br />
away from home, William, living on<br />
Nantucket and working with a friend<br />
who owns a moving company, while<br />
the ice rink and his boy’s hockey program<br />
is shuttered. Nick is engaged to<br />
his Cleveland, OH, sweetheart, still<br />
living and working for the Cleveland<br />
Airshow, which has canceled its<br />
three-day, one-million visitor show,<br />
this fall. Lou plays guitar every day,<br />
coaching every night. She is still employed<br />
by the Abenaqui Golf Club<br />
after seven years and play when she<br />
can. The family is healthy and happy,<br />
parents, Barbara Birt Dow ’51 and<br />
dad are still in Vero Beach, FL, and<br />
Devon, PA, celebrating their 68th<br />
wedding anniversary, and both mark<br />
92 years old this year!<br />
Fran McClung Ferguson’s hair<br />
is longer than it has been for the last<br />
fifty years. This season of COVID<br />
Jamila Champsi ’80 on the<br />
front line of COVID care in San<br />
Francisco<br />
has just been lost time. So much on<br />
hold. Her daughter, Carol Ferguson<br />
’12, was planning to be married in<br />
June. She still has a wonderful fiancé<br />
but all the rest of her plans had to<br />
be abandoned. Fran and family have<br />
got fingers crossed for a date in Sept.,<br />
with friends and family attending by<br />
Zoom. Hard to complain—everyone<br />
is still alive.<br />
Phyllis Watt Jordan moved her<br />
office to her home during the pandemic<br />
and enjoyed life with husband<br />
Brian and their two 20-something<br />
kids. Her work—in education and<br />
health policy at Georgetown University—kept<br />
her busy during the pandemic.<br />
Brian was able to keep doing<br />
his maritime security work, mostly<br />
at home. And they managed to get<br />
a lot of home improvement projects<br />
done. They added a little library for<br />
exchanging books in the front yard<br />
and a hammock in the backyard. She<br />
taught her son to cook before his return<br />
to the University of Vermont,<br />
where he’s living in his first apartment.<br />
And she helped her daughter<br />
figure out grad school options.<br />
Phyllis got a chance to see Lisa<br />
Ward Connors for a socially distanced<br />
lunch on the Eastern Shore in<br />
July. Lisa and Kevin recently moved<br />
from Bronxville to their home near<br />
Oxford, MD. Lisa isn’t the only<br />
classmate with a new address. Becky<br />
Garrett Jamison has moved back to<br />
Roanoke, VA, where she is enjoying<br />
nearby hiking opportunities; Pam<br />
Willett Hauck and husband left<br />
Stafford County for Chesterfield,<br />
VA, this year. Megan Coffield Lyon<br />
and Frank are spending time in Santa<br />
Fe, enjoying the cool mountain air.<br />
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Amy Campbell Lamphere was<br />
so let down that we couldn’t be together<br />
in person for our 40th Reunion,<br />
but so grateful for the class’s<br />
regular Zoom calls! They truly have<br />
energized the otherwise exhaustingly<br />
sameness of our quarantine! At<br />
home, she and Jim have loved having<br />
both children (and their dogs)<br />
here in Minneapolis, an experience<br />
only heightened by the Memorial<br />
Day uprising around George Floyd’s<br />
murder—a mile from her house.<br />
Fascinating learning around that,<br />
and the curfews and protests that<br />
ensued. “We are all moving forward<br />
better, wiser, open to learn, more<br />
aware—another point of surprising<br />
gratitude,” she says. What else has<br />
she learned during COVID? How<br />
to make Atlantic Beach pie (thanks<br />
to Ashley Wilson Brook ’79 for posting<br />
the recipe on Facebook), how to<br />
float in a glammed-up inner tube<br />
down the creek by her home, and<br />
how to monitor darling 92-year old<br />
parents now 500 miles away in Nebraska.<br />
“Praying that a vaccine lands<br />
in our lives before ski season ends<br />
this winter and that we will all be<br />
present for the Reral reunion in May<br />
2021. Stay safe, y’all. And tune in to<br />
Zoom with us—it’s Fun!”<br />
Carson Freemon Meinen reports<br />
that she has continued to work<br />
every day despite the pandemic. She<br />
took a trip to the TX coast with the<br />
family in early June and enjoyed sitting<br />
on the porch and relaxing for the<br />
week. She is looking forward to another<br />
family trip to CO to visit our<br />
daughter in Sept. She has read more<br />
books these last few months than she<br />
has in the last few years and watched<br />
more Netflix, Amazon and Hulu<br />
than ever before.<br />
Betsy Thomas Rook had her<br />
younger son home for four months<br />
when his school closed temporarily.<br />
She took him on a trip to the Grand<br />
Canyon and Sedona and made a fun<br />
trip out of it. That was combined<br />
with a trip to OK to take care of the<br />
estate of her mother, who passed<br />
away last Nov. Her older son moved<br />
back to CA from VT in January<br />
and is currently in San Luis Obispo<br />
studying accounting and working as<br />
an auditor for different stores such as<br />
Best Buy and Home Depot. As for<br />
Betsy, it seems like most things were<br />
put on hold this year, but she is slowly<br />
trying to get back into her acting<br />
and researching a new book. She did<br />
a music video called Social Distance<br />
in May and has had some taped auditions.<br />
She was supposed to have<br />
gone to Tahiti in March when all<br />
this happened, and hopes to still go<br />
someday. She and her husband had<br />
a big celebration planned for their<br />
30th anniversary in May, but had to<br />
cancel. She’s hoping they can still do<br />
it, maybe next year: 31 in 21.<br />
1981<br />
M. Claire McDonnell Purnell<br />
cpgd@verizon.net<br />
Hello, 1981 classmates! Allison<br />
Roberts Greene and Carson are visiting<br />
IL for the summer after having<br />
enjoyed the sun and view in FL this<br />
winter especially during the pandemic.<br />
They had to cancel travel plans for<br />
<strong>2020</strong> but hope to have a few trips<br />
next year. She writes “Like most,<br />
we have watched too much TV the<br />
last few months. We have had our<br />
youngest daughter home from college<br />
since March. It has been special<br />
to spend some extra time with her<br />
between her studies. We enjoyed celebrating<br />
her 21st birthday pandemic<br />
style. It will definitely be a time to<br />
remember. I hope all our classmates<br />
are safe. I look forward to seeing everyone<br />
at our 40th reunion!”<br />
Erin Lynch sent the sad news<br />
that our classmate, Kathleen<br />
Freemon, passed away on July 6.<br />
Kathleen was living in New Bern,<br />
NC, and is survived by two sons,<br />
her father, brothers and sisters. Erin<br />
and Kathleen met as freshman year<br />
roommates and remained good<br />
friends ever since.<br />
Eva Devine had a wonderful<br />
surprise 60th birthday and both Tania<br />
Voss Ryan and Brendy Reiter<br />
Hantzes attended. Eva says “It was<br />
great. And, a true surprise. Attended<br />
a lovey, lovely wedding for Brendy’s<br />
son Will in Dec. ’19 and am helping<br />
Tania plan a wedding for her<br />
daughter Meredith amidst COVID.<br />
Headed down to SBC for my sixth<br />
year at <strong>Sweet</strong> Work Weeks. I look<br />
forward to it and am so glad it is taking<br />
place this year. My best to everyone.<br />
Stay safe.”<br />
Sophia Crysler Hart and Rick<br />
are still enjoying living in Williamsburg<br />
and working for Colonial Williamsburg.<br />
She writes “Like everywhere<br />
else, we are closed to the public<br />
for the duration of the COVID<br />
shutdowns, but it has been a beautiful<br />
spring, and we have an adorable<br />
flock of baby Leicester Longwool<br />
lambs scattered around the historic<br />
area. W&M went digital for the<br />
spring semester, and I had to learn<br />
all the various technologies to move<br />
my government course online. I am<br />
amazed that most of it worked. One<br />
of my classes did get Zoom bombed,<br />
however, so I also have learned how<br />
to lock my sessions!”<br />
Ginia Zenke’s writes “Our dear<br />
and talented mother passed away<br />
last year in Feb. We cared for her<br />
for seven years at home. We are<br />
grateful to the friends and clients<br />
that have stuck with us, through<br />
moving the house and her years of<br />
slow decline.” Their family owned<br />
upholstery and draperies business<br />
has been very busy during COVID.<br />
She writes that “It snapped us out<br />
of our mourning malaise and it<br />
gives us hope that the days of pretty<br />
fabrics are coming back and that<br />
perhaps the era of 50 shades of grey<br />
decorating has had its day. The virus<br />
hasn’t affected how we work since we<br />
work with clients and suppliers on<br />
a limited contact basis anyway.” She<br />
is working on a book on the family<br />
design business and has outlines on<br />
perhaps some smaller books in the<br />
works. Ginia continues “Seven years<br />
ago, a friend mentioned he was about<br />
to plant some pine trees on his farm,<br />
and I suggested he contact a professor<br />
I had read about who was inoculating<br />
pine trees with truffle spores.<br />
This friend is now commercially producing<br />
the Bianchetta truffle, planting<br />
more acreage, and I get a small<br />
royalty every winter!”<br />
Kearsley Rand writes “After a<br />
very long project and cooking-filled<br />
quarantine, I am back in the office<br />
part time. My youngest son just left<br />
after a great eight-day visit. I have really<br />
missed my kids but forgot how<br />
messy they are!”<br />
Margaret Robinson Talmadge,<br />
and husband, Dan “have been relatively<br />
quiet the last six months, who<br />
hasn’t been? We (along with son<br />
Douglas) managed to take a family<br />
vacation to visit my youngest sister<br />
and her family in South Korea the<br />
second week of Feb. at the very beginning<br />
of pandemic. We had a fabulous<br />
trip! All the sites were open but<br />
empty.” Margaret continues to teach<br />
chemistry at the University of Cincinnati<br />
Blue Ash <strong>College</strong> part-time.<br />
Her course for the fall term will be<br />
entirely online which “will be an<br />
adventure.” Dan mostly works from<br />
a home office now, and she enjoys<br />
having him home for lunch. Her son,<br />
Douglas, lives in Seattle and works<br />
for SpaceX. She writes “I also am<br />
grateful for wonderful ways to stay<br />
connected with family and friends.<br />
Remember the expensive long-distance<br />
bills of our SBC days?”<br />
Quinne Fokes “has been on a<br />
work contract as a user researcher<br />
through a temp company and doing<br />
work for Google. It is fascinating<br />
and, as a newbie, a huge learning<br />
curve. I look forward to being on less<br />
of a curve so as to dedicate more time<br />
to painting.” Quinne lives in San Anselmo,<br />
CA, with a housemate and<br />
finds it nice to have company, especially<br />
now when her team is working<br />
from home. She writes “My kitty is<br />
thrilled to have me around; she is<br />
feral but loves to cuddle with me—<br />
my muse and shadow. I’m not seeing<br />
anyone at present—it was tough<br />
to juggle that and grad school and<br />
work and…oh, well, I look forward<br />
to meeting a super guy in due time.”<br />
Quinne has a plot in the community<br />
garden and finds that is such a blessing.<br />
She grows food and flowers.<br />
DJ Stanhope spent three years<br />
with the USO in the Inland Empire<br />
of southern CA and is now heading<br />
north to take the helm of the USO<br />
NV as executive director. She writes<br />
“I’ll be living in the greater Las Vegas<br />
area and look forward to connecting<br />
with any alums in that area. Once<br />
travel bans are lifted, I hope to get<br />
plenty of visitors to fill up my guest<br />
room. With our 40th reunion next<br />
year, I’m looking forward to working<br />
to help the class of ’81 crush our previous<br />
annual giving record!”<br />
K. Ellen Hagan went on a great<br />
trip to Big Sky, MT, in March to visit<br />
family. She “returned just before everything<br />
shut down. Have used this<br />
time to catch up with friends and<br />
projects with friends. Thankful for<br />
Zoom! Have been in contact with<br />
Sandra Turturro, Barbara Burns<br />
Heath and Jane Ward Moore.<br />
Take care of yourselves dear friends!<br />
Here’s to reunion 2021!”<br />
Sharon Resener Miller is living<br />
in New Smyrna Beach, FL, with her<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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husband Toby and two Jack Russell<br />
terriers. She is “working for myself<br />
as a CPA and taking advantage of<br />
beach life.”<br />
Hillary Lewis Bennett retired<br />
from 25 years of teaching and is<br />
“spending the summer enjoying river<br />
kayaking, swimming, cycling and<br />
reading. Loving living in western PA<br />
during my summers. Look me up<br />
in Old Town Alexandria. See Beth<br />
Newberry Phillip’s ’80.<br />
Sandra Meads Turturro and<br />
Michael have had a great year, despite<br />
the challenges of COVID.<br />
They love being grandparents to<br />
Annabelle (two) and are excited<br />
to welcome a second grandchild (a<br />
boy!) in Nov. Sandra writes “We<br />
still live in Roswell, GA. I’m in my<br />
39th year of teaching (currently first<br />
grade) and still love it! Michael loves<br />
his work as senior lead projects with<br />
Chik-fil-A. 2021 looks like it will be<br />
a great year as well as it seems we will<br />
be planning our youngest daughter’s<br />
wedding!”<br />
Sarah Huie Coleman: Joe and I<br />
built a house two years ago in Madison,<br />
GA. A couple of barn swallows<br />
built their nest on top of a window<br />
frame. They moved in before we<br />
did! They return every year to have<br />
their babies. Due to Covid-19 I’ve<br />
been working from home, so this<br />
is the first year I’ve gotten to watch<br />
the fledglings learn to fly. It’s awe inspiring<br />
to watch. Joe and I are very<br />
happy living in the country. We have<br />
three horses and three dogs. I keep<br />
in touch with Wendi Wood McAfee<br />
and Bobin Bryant Williams and<br />
hope to see them both soon!<br />
Stephanie Snead writes “I’m a<br />
happy grandmother to a beautiful<br />
one-year old named Mia! I planned<br />
to hike Mt. Kilimanjaro in July, but<br />
that was postponed due to the pandemic.<br />
I was doing it for the adventure<br />
but also to raise money for a<br />
good cause: Missions of Hope International<br />
in Kenya that provides basic<br />
needs to people living in the slums<br />
of Nairobi. I will have 40 years as a<br />
civilian for the Dept. of the Army<br />
in Oct. of 2021 and I’m setting my<br />
sights on retirement. Hope to climb<br />
many mountains and hike many<br />
trails! Always looking for hiking<br />
buddies!”<br />
As for me, Claire, I am still a<br />
graphic designer in Annapolis, MD.<br />
My other news is that I have co-written<br />
and illustrated a children’s book.<br />
Circa 1950, my mother wrote a<br />
sweet poem for a college creative<br />
writing class. Mom forgot about the<br />
poem until she had grandchildren.<br />
She rewrote it for the girls and we<br />
all loved it. Mom asked if we could<br />
work together to expand the poem<br />
into a book and if I would do the illustrations.<br />
Sadly, mom died in 2000,<br />
and we did not finish the book. In<br />
late 2019, I began working on the<br />
book again, and it is now finished.<br />
My goal was to complete the book,<br />
that was 70 years in the making, for<br />
my daughters. Now, I am dipping my<br />
toe into the world of publishing children’s<br />
books. Wish me luck ladies.<br />
Thanks to all the classmates who<br />
sent in their news. Take care everyone<br />
and keep wearing your masks.<br />
See you at our 40th reunion.<br />
1982<br />
Patti Snodgrass Borda Mullins<br />
15 10th Avenue<br />
Brunswick, Md. 21716<br />
pattibmullins@gmail.com<br />
Ethel Burwell Dowling and husband<br />
Ben continue to live in Lexington,<br />
VA. Two yellow Labradors have<br />
filled the gap left by their two grown<br />
children. Ethel enjoys running into<br />
freshman Reid Hall friends Francie<br />
Mantho Belliveau and Anne Edmunds<br />
Hansen.<br />
Ann Goebel Bain was glad we<br />
were able to make the class fundraising<br />
goals! “I’m so proud of the school<br />
and the alumnae and delighted to<br />
see SBC in the news.” She expected<br />
to be headed back into severe lockdown,<br />
as “our COVID ‘CA Miracle’<br />
is being reversed by those that won’t<br />
be civic-minded.” She is learning Italian;<br />
just finished Italian one and will<br />
continue to fluency via online classes<br />
at the local community college and<br />
Stanford’s continuing education program.<br />
She will be ready to see Italy in<br />
person when the EU allows Americans<br />
back into Europe. She has converted<br />
the living room into a home<br />
gym, tomatoes are starting to ripen,<br />
“and I’m making loaves of sourdough<br />
bread (300 pounds of flour in my garage<br />
storage area).”<br />
Anne Powers Woodward is living<br />
in the Richmond, VA, area and is<br />
very sad about turmoil there: “Seeing<br />
Leigh Leibel ’82 was named a TEDMED <strong>2020</strong> scholar, recognized for her<br />
work in the field of integrative oncology and supportive cancer care<br />
what’s transpired up close and personal<br />
on historic Monument Avenue<br />
has left me speechless. Pre-COVID<br />
I was teaching English in a middle<br />
school. Being speechless has given<br />
me an opportunity to re-evaluate<br />
what my priorities are.” She decided<br />
to go back to work in a pharmaceutical/lab<br />
setting. She lives with two<br />
rescue dogs—Bentley a Weimaraner,<br />
and Bingo, a Blue Tick Hound. She<br />
spends a lot of time with her sons<br />
and hoping for grandkids so I can<br />
teach them all the tricks their fathers<br />
pulled on me over the years. Would<br />
love to find Virginia Carabelli!”<br />
Liz Hoskinson: “COVID seems<br />
to be the daily shadow we have to<br />
contend with. I hope that classmates<br />
have been able to weather this time<br />
with as little turmoil as possible. I am<br />
furloughed, but my days strangely<br />
are now fuller than ever. (And turning<br />
off the news, I’ve found, is the<br />
most reliable way to stay even-keeled<br />
during this).” She fills time gardening,<br />
getting to the barn, art classes,<br />
donating to food banks, arranging<br />
Zooms and putting together 6-foot<br />
small gatherings to help friends feel<br />
normal.<br />
Leslie Hertz Firestone moved<br />
to Lynchburg in the Boonsboro area<br />
at the beginning of March from Las<br />
Vegas. She returned “home just in<br />
time for the coronavirus lockdown!”<br />
Her cousin moved at the same time,<br />
and they live together. “I had to totally<br />
remodel the house I bought<br />
just to make it livable,” and she looks<br />
forward to finishing that project. She<br />
had planned to work a few more<br />
years as a teacher of students with<br />
special needs, “but COVID had other<br />
plans! I have plenty to keep me<br />
busy right now, so maybe I’ll return<br />
to teaching next year.”<br />
Lucile Flournoy is “just trying to<br />
keep our heads above the COVID<br />
virus like everyone else. At least we<br />
live on a farm and have some seclusion.”<br />
She ventures out to the grocery<br />
store and to take care of her 97-yearold<br />
father, who still lives on his own.<br />
Lucile’s daughter, Lucy, lives in Germany,<br />
and was visiting Lucile at the<br />
time she wrote. Younger daughter,<br />
Betsy, is a computer engineer who<br />
lives in Boulder, CO, and can work<br />
remotely. Lucy is in the performing<br />
arts so life has been turned upside<br />
down for her. Her sister Frances<br />
Malone ’75 lives close by, and in Columbus,<br />
GA, they have the Two Sisters<br />
Gallery frame shop/art gallery<br />
that they are trying to keep going.<br />
“Knock on wood...business has been<br />
good lately for some reason. Hope it<br />
continues. Hope all are staying safe<br />
from the virus out in the world.”<br />
Deborah Price Bowman’s son<br />
Kessler graduated from Oliverian<br />
School in June and is planning to<br />
attend St. John’s <strong>College</strong> in Santa Fe<br />
in the fall, which “like SBC, is small<br />
and remote and plans to hold in-person<br />
instruction.” Daughter Kate is 24<br />
and living in NYC. She is modeling<br />
(once the industry resumes), working<br />
in retail, and co-owns a clothing<br />
resale site katepaulena.com. Deborah<br />
plans to sell her home in spring<br />
2021 and buy a condo “somewhere in<br />
a new and exciting locale.”<br />
Martha Tisdale Cordell: “ We<br />
are riding out the COVID storm at<br />
our home on the Gulf Coast.” She<br />
has retired from the university “so<br />
the virus has not really impacted me<br />
except that our trip to the Amalfi<br />
Coast in May to celebrate the big<br />
60 was canceled.” She spends time<br />
needlepointing, reading, sailing with<br />
husband David and fishing with the<br />
family. “I almost feel guilty saying<br />
that I am very happy and healthy. I<br />
know many have suffered. Hopefully<br />
we will all get on the other side of<br />
this soon. Great news about SBC!<br />
There are many challenging times<br />
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CLASS NOTES<br />
Pre-pandemic: Anne Goebel Bain<br />
’82 enjoyed a night out for music<br />
in downtown Los Angeles<br />
ahead for colleges and small private<br />
universities. So proud that we are<br />
holding our own.”<br />
Catherine Miller: “My family is<br />
doing well during the crazy times.”<br />
Oldest child Madeline and her husband<br />
bought a house. Ali completed<br />
a master’s degree as a licensed clinical<br />
therapist. Catherine and husband<br />
David have spent all of their<br />
free time painting. “We painted his<br />
mom’s house (she died last year) and<br />
sold it. My mom moved to a lovely<br />
retirement community, so we are<br />
painting and prepping her house for<br />
sale.” They helped Madeline and Larry<br />
with their new home. “We have<br />
been blessed with our jobs and good<br />
health. Wishing the best for the SBC<br />
community.”<br />
Leigh Leibel was named a TED-<br />
MED <strong>2020</strong> scholar, recognized for<br />
her work in the field of integrative<br />
oncology and supportive cancer care.<br />
She practices at Columbia University<br />
Irving Medical Center in NYC<br />
and serves on the board of trustees<br />
of the Society for Integrative Oncology,<br />
a nonprofit whose mission<br />
is to advance evidence-based, comprehensive,<br />
integrative cancer care to<br />
improve the lives of people affected<br />
by cancer. She is the editor of the<br />
forthcoming textbook, Clinical Application<br />
of Yoga Therapy Across<br />
the Cancer Care Continuum, to be<br />
released 2021 by Handspring Publishing,<br />
UK.<br />
Monika Kaiser: “All is well. My<br />
family and I are still in quarantine,<br />
though I walk the dog every morning<br />
for an hour through the deserted<br />
neighborhood.” Her trips to Europe<br />
to see her mother first were postponed<br />
and eventually canceled. Her<br />
daughter and her fiancé are currently<br />
debating whether to postpone their<br />
Dec. wedding. Monika has developed<br />
some new hobbies: “Though<br />
I do not drink alcohol, I have used<br />
my quarantine time to concoct a<br />
number of cordials/liqueur, which<br />
have earned my husband’s and son’s<br />
approval. I discovered the pool in our<br />
yard and started swimming approximately<br />
three-quarter mile in laps<br />
every day, weather permitting.”<br />
Mary Ames Booker began telecommuting<br />
from the Battleship<br />
North Carolina on Monday, March<br />
16. Two days later the ship closed to<br />
the public, and only mandatory staff<br />
were allowed onboard. She brought<br />
home boxes of archival materials<br />
and a scanner. She had plenty of<br />
work, a dog and cat for company, a<br />
nice garden view out a real window,<br />
and a kitchen and bathroom nearby<br />
(a luxury). When the ship partially<br />
reopened to the public at the end<br />
of May, some staff continued telecommuting<br />
interspersed with days<br />
onboard in their offices. “It has been<br />
pleasant and productive. The battleship<br />
has kept the staff fully employed<br />
and all are very grateful.”<br />
Gracie Tredwell Schild’s bookkeeping<br />
business is booming. “I’m<br />
actually working harder than I intended,<br />
but it has allowed me to<br />
take on the training of a friend as a<br />
subcontractor—good for me to have<br />
a backup and good for her to move<br />
into a field where there’s always demand.”<br />
Her mother is not doing well,<br />
and Grace spends about a third of<br />
her time on duty at her house. “But<br />
on the bright side, my amazing son,<br />
Christoph, has just started his new<br />
job at State Farm in software development,<br />
and though it’s in Tempe,<br />
AZ (hot and hot spot), he’s already<br />
making substantive contributions<br />
and enjoying his work.” Christoph is<br />
scheduled to graduate from college<br />
in Dec. “Santa Fe is wonderful, and<br />
Christoph’s former room is now a<br />
real guest room, so as soon as we can<br />
all move around again, I hope to see<br />
some of you!”<br />
Jane Dure: “I’ve been obeying<br />
COVID orders. Trying to keep my<br />
mom safe. Weirdly, I have had a lot<br />
of work as an oil and gas title examiner<br />
during a time when few people<br />
are driving. I had planned to clean<br />
my house, top to bottom, during the<br />
initial part of the shutdown part of<br />
the pandemic, which would have<br />
pleased Jean von Schrader Bryan,<br />
but I have been working from home,<br />
making only sporadic visits to the office.<br />
My home office is pretty much<br />
trashed right now.” She enjoyed our<br />
fundraising sprint to the finish this<br />
year at the end of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s fiscal<br />
year. “I heard from classmates, Jean<br />
reported to about her calls with some<br />
of you (good job, fund agent!), filling<br />
me in about what you are up to, and<br />
I saw a lot of conversations on our<br />
class Facebook page.” She hopes we<br />
can continue those conversations in<br />
the year before us, when we are not<br />
under the gun raising money for the<br />
annual fund. “We have a big reunion<br />
to plan for in 2022!”<br />
Alice Dixon continues to live in<br />
Richmond and keeps busy with projects,<br />
including many related to <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>. She has participated in <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
Work Weeks since the very first one<br />
to prepare <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> House for<br />
Phil Stone’s arrival; she is an admissions<br />
ambassador. “I recently stepped<br />
back from serving as a member of<br />
the <strong>College</strong> board of directors––a<br />
fascinating and rewarding experience,<br />
and I can happily report to<br />
you that the <strong>College</strong> is in amazing,<br />
dedicated and visionary hands!”<br />
She roundly applauds Claire Dennison<br />
Griffith ’80, and Mary Pope<br />
Hutson ’83: “I want to shout from<br />
the top of the Bell Tower so that all<br />
of you may hear, that they, in their<br />
current roles of senior director of<br />
alumnae relations and vice president<br />
for alumnae relations and development,<br />
respectively, are indispensable<br />
players in positioning our beloved<br />
<strong>College</strong> for a thriving future. They<br />
are true forces of nature.” She also<br />
recognizes Lea Sparks Bennett and<br />
Lee Anne MacKenzie Chaskes, both<br />
members of the Class of ’83, “who<br />
are also working for the <strong>College</strong> in<br />
the alumnae Office, each doing wondrous<br />
things! I hope that we may all<br />
meet again in 2022 for our 40th.”<br />
Rosemary Hardy: “Nothing<br />
really newsworthy to share. Continuing<br />
to enjoy retirement––has<br />
been five years and must say the best<br />
part is being able to create and follow<br />
my own daily schedule––still not<br />
enough hours in each day, however.<br />
I hope everyone has been able to stay<br />
healthy and upbeat due to the coronavirus.”<br />
Jean von Schrader Bryan’s news<br />
revolved around the 30% class participation<br />
in annual giving she worked<br />
so hard to inspire: “I’m so thankful<br />
for our classmates that answered<br />
my calls to donate! So thrilled! All<br />
is well in Amherst and I am keeping<br />
out of trouble. Love to all!”<br />
Priscilla Ream McPheeters<br />
and her family are “doing their best<br />
to stay safe during this crazy time”<br />
in Columbia, SC. “I am keeping my<br />
bubble small and wearing my mask!”<br />
Her two children and their families<br />
live near. “Spending lots of time outside<br />
at the barn with the grands.” She<br />
has four years of teaching left before<br />
retirement “but, I do not know what<br />
this fall at school will be like. It’s uncharted<br />
territory for everyone! Stay<br />
safe, friends.”<br />
Jennifer Rae: “My best, warmest<br />
wishes to the Class of 1982. Love<br />
you all! Back home in NY.”<br />
Libby Lee Gantt Castles: A mistake<br />
by your class secretary caused<br />
Libby Lee’s last update to be omitted,<br />
but here is what she reported<br />
a year ago: “Guy and I celebrated<br />
the graduation of our triplets from<br />
college in May of 2019. The boys<br />
graduated from Clemson, and our<br />
daughter from the University of<br />
South Carolina. We are proud to<br />
now have six college graduates, two<br />
of whom have their master’s degrees!<br />
Our oldest daughter is working as a<br />
physician assistant in Birmingham,<br />
AL, while her husband is training to<br />
be an endodontist. Our oldest son is<br />
engaged and has a landscaping business<br />
in Charleston, SC. Third child<br />
is a special education teacher and<br />
behavior analyst living with us right<br />
now. One of the triplets is a horticulturist<br />
working in landscaping, one is<br />
in WY working on a ranch, and one<br />
is getting her master’s in sports management.<br />
We have no grandchildren<br />
yet but love our granddogs, enjoy<br />
cooking for crowds of young people<br />
and play a lot of golf.”<br />
Patti Snodgrass Mullins: As<br />
press secretary and policy research<br />
specialist for the Maryland State<br />
Education Association since Jan., I<br />
help advocate for teachers and students.<br />
At this time, I can’t imagine<br />
doing more important work. Exactly<br />
two months after I started everyone<br />
was transferred to home offices.<br />
Husband Earl, interim rector at St.<br />
James, Leesburg, daughter Virginia,<br />
a University of Maryland freshman,<br />
and I hunkered down congenially,<br />
working and studying from home.<br />
Time has allowed experimenting<br />
with new recipes. We share gratitude<br />
for time together and health.<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
83
CLASS NOTES<br />
Alicia Nygaard Formagus’s ’83 granddaughter and<br />
hopeful future Vixen, Hollie Grace McNutt<br />
Rick and Mason Bennett Rummel ’83<br />
Wendy Chapin Albert ’83 and family<br />
sbc.edu<br />
Sarah Babcock ’83<br />
1983<br />
Virginia Claus Buyck<br />
414 Seminole Ave.<br />
Florence, SC 29501<br />
vbc414@aol.com<br />
Wylie Jameson Small and Stuart<br />
sold their Hilton Head home<br />
and bought a new house on Kiawah<br />
Island. They hope to spend most of<br />
the fall and winter there, remaining<br />
in Rochester for the spring and<br />
summer. The move was a little bittersweet<br />
for Wylie as she has been going<br />
to Hilton Head since the late 60s,<br />
but she is excited for a new adventure.<br />
Their son Rudy will graduate in<br />
Dec. with a corporate finance degree.<br />
Wylie and Stuart hope to get to England<br />
for several weeks in the spring<br />
of 2021. They continue to run, cycle<br />
and golf, and their Jack Russells Peyton<br />
(13) and Cleo (seven) keep them<br />
on their toes.<br />
Alice Cutting Laimbeer and<br />
Rick have been traveling to Kenya<br />
for almost 20 years, helping with a<br />
school system in the Chyulu Hills.<br />
Every other year they take a group<br />
to visit the school and travel on safari.<br />
They continue to raise money<br />
for conservation and locally Kenyan<br />
communities hit hard by COVID.<br />
Alice and Rick live on their farm in<br />
Castleton, VA, surrounded by horses,<br />
chickens, dogs and donkeys. Alice<br />
works for Highland School in Warrenton<br />
teaching art and running the<br />
Kenya Sister School Program.<br />
Bobbie Serrano Black and her<br />
husband Paul welcomed their first<br />
grandchild, Daisy Elizabeth Pogue,<br />
in April. Her proud parents, their<br />
oldest daughter, Elizabeth, and her<br />
husband, Franklin, live in Nashville,<br />
TN.<br />
Sarah Sutton settled permanently<br />
in Tacoma, WA. She bought<br />
a house and is turning it into the<br />
tiniest of homesteads—distraction<br />
from, and defense against, COVID.<br />
Both sons are also in Tacoma. Her<br />
work on climate change has continued,<br />
as has her writing. Sarah’s next<br />
book is on the arts and humanities—<br />
and their museums—in addressing<br />
climate change and encouraging climate<br />
action. Sarah said she is following<br />
Sarah Babcock’s Facebook page<br />
on animal management and veggies<br />
and hopes to join Amy Boyce Osaki<br />
on a hike soon!<br />
Alicia Nygaard Formagus and<br />
Nace enjoyed the arrival of their<br />
third grandchild, James William.<br />
She is fortunate to have three generations<br />
living within two miles of<br />
one another in Dallas. Alicia has begun<br />
writing poetry again, hoping to<br />
self-publish, and reads at her parents’<br />
assisted living complex as soon as it<br />
opens back up!<br />
Tracy Gatewood has stayed<br />
connected with many classmates<br />
on Facebook and loves seeing everyone’s<br />
children, homes, husbands<br />
and travel adventures. Over the past<br />
year or two, Tracy has visited Alicia<br />
Nygaard Formagus in Dallas (hope<br />
to see Ann Goldmann Uloth on my<br />
next visit), hosted Sandy Ahern Cimons<br />
at the National Prayer Breakfast<br />
in Washington, DC, and also<br />
spent time with Katie Grosvenor<br />
Hutcheson. Tracy lives in her hometown<br />
of Tuscaloosa, where she is a<br />
commercial real estate broker, working<br />
mostly as a tenant and buyer rep.<br />
She is active in several prayer groups,<br />
praying for our nation, her city and<br />
state, and of course those affected by<br />
the pandemic.<br />
Leslie Malone Berger’s daughter,<br />
Emilie, graduated from Virginia<br />
Tech in May and is now gainfully<br />
employed with Clorox. While not<br />
the celebration they had been looking<br />
forward to, it was wonderful in<br />
its own way. Now that Leslie and<br />
Kevin are empty nesters, they got the<br />
crazy idea to get a puppy, Nickel, a<br />
blue heeler/lab mix. Leslie has attended<br />
plenty of Zoom and WebEx<br />
meetings trying to figure out how<br />
to provide speech therapy services<br />
to her students and work with her<br />
graduate students at Radford.<br />
Sarah Babcock is in Richmond,<br />
VA, working for the Richmond<br />
SPCA as their chief of education<br />
and Training. COVID put a serious<br />
damper on dog training classes,<br />
so she has been working from home<br />
on back burner projects for the last<br />
few months. Hoping to start classes<br />
again soon with new social distancing<br />
protocols and masks for all.<br />
Sarah had a serious fire at her old<br />
farmhouse, so the year ahead will<br />
include architects and contractors<br />
(thankful you were safe Sarah). She<br />
is spending her non-work hours surrounded<br />
by dogs, ponies, horses and<br />
one clever parrot—all doing as well<br />
as possible during this crazy moment<br />
in time!<br />
Wendy Chapin Albert was<br />
extremely lucky to have been on<br />
a Regent Caribbean cruise in Jan.<br />
and then went skiing in Solitude,<br />
UT, in early Feb. Both very special<br />
and memorable trips! Wendy and<br />
Tolly have been home since then,<br />
adapting, grumbling, gardening and<br />
counting their blessings. Tolly is a<br />
84
CLASS NOTES<br />
Bobbie Serrano Black’s ’83<br />
granddaughter Daisy Elizabeth<br />
Pogue<br />
Nina Pastuhov ’83 celebrates her<br />
Feb. <strong>2020</strong> birthday with a rare<br />
snow storm in Austin, TX<br />
Virginia Claus Buyck ’83 and Mary<br />
Pope Hutson ’83<br />
financial advisor at Chapin Davis<br />
where he has been for 32 years. One<br />
of their daughters was furloughed<br />
and is home, and their older daughter<br />
moved to Tallahassee and started<br />
a job as a historic preservationist for<br />
the state of FL. Their dishwasher has<br />
been running constantly, the house is<br />
messy, and the dog loves everyone<br />
home! Sadly, during all of this uncertainty,<br />
Wendy’s mother passed away<br />
on May 22. She was a very important<br />
part of Wendy’s life, and I know<br />
our class shares love and condolences.<br />
Wendy has been in touch with<br />
Meg Price Bruno and Blair Redd<br />
Schmieg.<br />
Mason Bennett Rummel and<br />
Rick are grandparents to Ellie, who<br />
was born in NYC just before the<br />
pandemic shut everything down.<br />
They got to meet her when she was<br />
three weeks old but have only been<br />
able to FaceTime during daily calls<br />
since then. She is 5-½ months now<br />
and pure joy. Rick has pivoted like<br />
many and is now working with companies<br />
involved with testing. Mason’s<br />
foundation is focused now on providing<br />
emergency relief for non-profits<br />
serving those suffering most from<br />
the devastating economic impacts of<br />
COVID.<br />
Wonderful to hear from Nina<br />
Pastuhov. She has operated her own<br />
business, NP Financial, since 1999,<br />
providing life, health, Medicare and<br />
retirement plans to her clients. She<br />
works all the time, but wishes she<br />
could get back into riding and horses.<br />
She has lived in central TX since<br />
2011 (via FL for 23 years). She is divorced,<br />
was planning on looking for<br />
Mr. Right after her annual snow ski<br />
trip, but then along came COVID.<br />
No worries, she has two loving female<br />
cats who adore her.<br />
Kim Howell Franklin rejoined<br />
the Arlington County Treasurer’s<br />
Office in Oct. after being laid off<br />
and is happy to be back walking to<br />
work, being done at 5 p.m. and not<br />
having to take her computer with her<br />
everywhere she goes, including on<br />
vacation! “I consider this my pre-retirement<br />
gig. Husband John just returned<br />
from a cross-country drive to<br />
Pasadena, CA, moving our daughter<br />
out to attend medical school at the<br />
new Kaiser Permanente School of<br />
Medicine. Isabelle is one of 48 students<br />
in their inaugural class and she<br />
is excited for the adventure. Hope<br />
everyone and their extended families<br />
are safe and healthy!”<br />
Amy Boyce Osaki is fine in OR,<br />
hiking and backpacking frequently.<br />
She very much looks forward to a<br />
future time when international travel<br />
is again possible.<br />
Ann Sterling Hart lives in FL<br />
running dressage horse shows and<br />
riding as well. Her oldest daughter,<br />
Stephanie, married in Nov. 2019<br />
and moved to Seattle, WA, with her<br />
rocket engineer husband. Stephanie<br />
works remotely for her father’s business.<br />
Fortunately, they live across<br />
from all the mayhem. Ann’s youngest<br />
daughter, Ali, was supposed to get<br />
married in April <strong>2020</strong>, but COVID<br />
interrupted. Ali and her fiancé live in<br />
Shreveport, LA, where her fiancé is<br />
finishing his last year of dental surgery<br />
rotations, and Ali is a biology<br />
professor at a local college. Ann had<br />
lunch recently with Elena Quevedo<br />
(her SBC roommate), whom she<br />
had not seen in years. She said it was<br />
like no time had passed, but boy, did<br />
they have experiences to share! Ann<br />
is happy <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> continues as a<br />
healthy college of education—she<br />
has many fond memories.<br />
I hope everyone is well and<br />
successfully navigating these crazy<br />
times. Had a fun golf/hiking trip<br />
last weekend in Linville, NC, with<br />
a group including Mary Pope Hutson.<br />
Hope to see other SBC classmates<br />
soon—missing seeing friends<br />
in person! Take care everyone!<br />
1984<br />
Louise Jones Geddes<br />
2590 Woodward Way NW<br />
Atlanta, GA 30305<br />
LJGeddes5@gmail.com<br />
Well, here we are over halfway<br />
through the most surreal year I’ve<br />
ever experienced. The spring <strong>2020</strong><br />
notes were submitted in late Jan., and<br />
believe it or not, not a single mention<br />
of coronavirus was made! Incredible.<br />
So, these new notes go with my most<br />
sincere hopes and prayers for all of<br />
you out there, whether or not we’ve<br />
communicated recently or not, that<br />
all of you, and your families, are well<br />
and safe and are surviving and hopefully<br />
even thriving during this crazy<br />
year!<br />
Elizabeth Hicks Bahramizadeh<br />
submitted a late entry to the spring<br />
notes, which is added here. She and<br />
her husband had a very interesting<br />
2019. Elizabeth was a guest on the<br />
Late Show with Stephen Colbert (he<br />
attended Hampden-Sydney!), airing<br />
about nine minutes which was great<br />
fun. She and her husband travelled<br />
to Iran where they stayed with family<br />
for five weeks and visited several<br />
cities including staying at the family<br />
villa on the Caspian Sea. Recently, in<br />
researching her DAR (Daughters of<br />
the American Revolution) roots, she<br />
discovered familial ties directly to<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>: Indiana Fletcher is her<br />
third cousin four times removed on<br />
her paternal grandfather’s side. Surprise!<br />
Ann Cabot Alleva Taylor writes<br />
that this year has been a doozy.<br />
Home school, working from home<br />
and maintaining a household is driving<br />
her insane. On the happier side<br />
of life, the beach is just around the<br />
corner and she and her family can be<br />
outside in wonderful weather. Charlotte<br />
finished her first year at St.<br />
Timothy’s School making IEA nationals<br />
and academic honors, Cabot<br />
graduated from high-school and<br />
is headed to Randolph <strong>College</strong> in<br />
Lynchburg, and last but not least is<br />
Caroline, who is starting 10th grade.<br />
Needless to say, Ann and husband,<br />
Carter, are hopeful the new normal<br />
includes school in the classroom setting!<br />
Coronavirus hasn’t stopped Leslie<br />
Caroline Kirkby from working<br />
with her purebred Spanish Arabian<br />
stallion therapy horse, Marka de<br />
Zaon EMH. Her beautiful Anglo<br />
Arabian mare has a new saddle, her<br />
very first western saddle. She will be<br />
trail riding into the new year.<br />
All is well for Liz Sprague<br />
Brandt in Kansas City. The year<br />
started off with a bang: her only<br />
child, Betsy, got engaged to a wonderful<br />
man from St. Louis, and the<br />
KC Chiefs won the Super Bowl! In<br />
May, to the delight of her proud parents,<br />
Betsy graduated from Harvard<br />
Business School, and has started her<br />
own company by the name of Forest<br />
Park Capital, based out of St. Louis.<br />
Liz is having a blast planning a June<br />
12, 2021, wedding, which will take<br />
place in Kansas City.<br />
Virginia Lynch Kiseljack continues<br />
working as a senior business<br />
development officer for PNC Bank<br />
in Atlanta. She is busier than ever<br />
despite the pandemic and working<br />
100% from home these days. She<br />
and Charles downsized at the end of<br />
2018 when their younger child left<br />
for college, and now they, along with<br />
two dogs and two cats, are crammed<br />
into a 1,675 square foot 1950s vintage<br />
bungalow near the Marietta<br />
Square, in Marietta, GA. Virginia’s<br />
daughter, Katie (22), graduated<br />
from college during the pandemic<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
85
CLASS NOTES<br />
Mathilde Sharman (left), daughter of Elizabeth Cahill Ginger Reynolds Davis ’84 (second from left) and Debbie Jones ’84 (fourth from left) enjoy an<br />
Sharman ’84, and Lucia Geddes (right), daughter of Louise outing at the Virginia Distillery, along with Debbie’s mom Judy Cowen Jones ’60 (left), and<br />
Jones Geddes ’84, share an apartment together in DC some other friends<br />
sbc.edu<br />
this spring and quickly enrolled in<br />
graduate school to pursue a master’s<br />
in MIS through an online program,<br />
so the house just got more crowded!<br />
Her son, Chase (20), is a rising junior<br />
at Georgia <strong>College</strong> & State University.<br />
The family had fun trips in<br />
the last couple of years to Costa Rica<br />
and Iceland, but COVID spoiled<br />
their planned graduation trip to Ireland<br />
and Portugal in May. They hope<br />
to reschedule that one soon though!<br />
Ginger Reynolds Davis stayed<br />
home during the first few months of<br />
COVID until the first weekend in<br />
June when she and Lynn went to see<br />
Debbie Jones. They then spent the<br />
entire month of July in Key West,<br />
and were very glad to get away for a<br />
while. Ginger is going to be a grandmama<br />
in Sept. as her son Carter and<br />
his wife are having a little girl! Congrats,<br />
Ginger!<br />
Caroline Reece Aquino is still<br />
living in The Plains, VA, and she is<br />
very glad to ride out the pandemic<br />
there in the country with the horses.<br />
She recently downsized to running<br />
a small fox hunting barn for health<br />
reasons; her husband is still plugging<br />
along at Salamander; and her<br />
son has one more semester at VCU.<br />
She says he’s loving Richmond, and<br />
she and her husband love having him<br />
close. It was the best of a bad situation<br />
to have him quarantine at home<br />
for a few months.<br />
Debbie Jones is grateful to<br />
be healthy and safe, and thankful<br />
that her family and friends are too.<br />
Debbie is still working in mortgage<br />
finance, and although she loved having<br />
no business travel for three-plus<br />
months and working from home, she<br />
missed working with her team and<br />
the energy that face-to-face interaction<br />
brings. She has enjoyed fixing<br />
up the farm, riding her horses more<br />
often, and getting to know her neighbors<br />
a little better. The cats and horses<br />
are confused but loving the attention!<br />
Ginger Reynolds Davis and<br />
Lynn Jordan visited recently, and as<br />
usual, they had a great laugh together.<br />
Square One Vodka is expanding<br />
with mixers and ready-to-drink, so<br />
loyal supporters, stay tuned on that<br />
front, focusing on expanding retail<br />
and online as states and businesses<br />
open back up. Thanks for supporting<br />
small, women owned businesses!<br />
The pandemic hit Square One hard<br />
with the restaurant/bar scene, but<br />
Debbie is hopeful that the retail pivot<br />
will succeed this year. Debbie has<br />
found her day job in mortgage banking<br />
more rewarding than ever, as this<br />
year’s circumstances have deepened<br />
her focus in supporting first-time<br />
and minority homeownership. Recognizing<br />
that we can only do things<br />
within our own sphere of influence,<br />
she still hopes to make a small difference<br />
in supporting underserved<br />
communities in financing, and she<br />
is grateful that her SBC education<br />
helped shape her into being more capable<br />
of recognizing challenges and<br />
contributing to change.<br />
Due to the COVID pandemic<br />
Michelle Scherrer Klimt had<br />
to twice cancel a trip to France but<br />
hopes to reschedule for next year.<br />
She celebrated four years of retirement<br />
in Aug. and finds it hard to<br />
believe how quickly time flies. She<br />
is still enjoying playing tennis and<br />
volunteering at Gabriel House of<br />
Care, a non-profit hospitality house<br />
for cancer and transplant patients<br />
located on the Mayo Clinic campus<br />
in Jacksonville.<br />
Ann Evans recently moved to<br />
Waterbury, CT, to a home with her<br />
two cats and two chihuahuas. She<br />
is the human resources manager for<br />
Right at Home of Greater Fairfield<br />
County. Her son Connor, who lives<br />
in upstate NY, is her pride and joy.<br />
Both of Helen Pruitt Butler’s<br />
kids are engaged! Her son’s wedding<br />
is on Halloween in Georgetown<br />
County with a big blue moon to<br />
spotlight the backdrop with grand<br />
old live oaks draped in Spanish moss<br />
and the historic flooded rice fields.<br />
Her daughter’s wedding will be next<br />
June 5 in Charleston. Helen says it<br />
has been nice working on the wedding<br />
plans even during COVID.<br />
Helen enjoyed having Kathleen<br />
“KP” Papadimitriou and Camille<br />
Mitchell Wingate over for dinner in<br />
the summer, and she looks forward<br />
to seeing more classmates who come<br />
to Charleston to visit.<br />
Tracy Glaves Spalding finished<br />
teaching the spring semester for the<br />
natural foods chef program that<br />
she runs in mid-summer. After taking<br />
over two months off––due to<br />
COVID––the classes were restarted<br />
in May and successfully finished<br />
the semester in mid-July with no one<br />
getting sick! The program will not<br />
run this fall (who knows what will<br />
happen with this virus), but Tracy<br />
is busy designing a new teaching<br />
kitchen in a new space that is scheduled<br />
to be done before the Jan. 2021<br />
start date for the spring semester.<br />
She is loving designing the kitchen<br />
although it makes her want a new<br />
kitchen in her own house!<br />
Maria Ferran continues living<br />
in Charlotte and running her executive<br />
search practice. She had the joy<br />
of seeing pictures of SBC classmate<br />
Gibson Murphy’s ’86 first grandchild,<br />
a beautiful little girl named<br />
Cedar, who is adorable! Maria’s own<br />
daughter, Sarah, is a travel nurse and<br />
serving on the front lines in greater<br />
Boston as a critical care ICU nurse<br />
in the COVID unit, and at the time<br />
of writing she was doing fine, staying<br />
healthy and taking flying lessons<br />
on her days off. Maria’s dear mother,<br />
age 92, suffered a broken hip recently<br />
but has weathered that storm like a<br />
trooper and is now well on her way<br />
to recovery and is herself again.<br />
“Looking forward to more peaceful<br />
days where we can all travel and<br />
enjoy each other in person and celebrate<br />
life’s special moments together<br />
and sending wishes for God’s blessings<br />
to all of you and your families!<br />
Stay well and keep the faith!”<br />
All is well in beautiful, idyllic<br />
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Drew Reichard, son of Lisa Burwell Reichard ’84, and his wife, Katie,<br />
with Lisa’s mom, Ethel Ogden Burwell ’58, holding twins Elliott (left) and<br />
Beckett (right)<br />
Keswick for Beth Richmond Hyder.<br />
She loved seeing everyone at<br />
the end of May last year at reunion.<br />
After 25 years as director of catering<br />
at Glenmore Country Club in<br />
Keswick, Beth started working as<br />
director of sales at the Hillsdale<br />
Conference Center in Charlottesville.<br />
She is loving the change and<br />
especially loving working remotely<br />
during these past few months. She<br />
sees Shelley Jobe Milan and Leanne<br />
Webber Kreis, both SBC ’85, a couple<br />
of times a year, and she enjoyed<br />
reconnecting with Beth Slayman<br />
Nubbe while her son was at UVA.<br />
Not much travel lately but she does<br />
get to her cottage in Irvington several<br />
weekends a month. She sends wishes<br />
for everyone’s safety and health.<br />
Liz Rodgers Boyd has been<br />
quarantined in MN with absolutely<br />
nothing new at home. Tommy<br />
graduated in May with a master’s in<br />
education with a strength and conditioning<br />
focus. He just received a job<br />
offer from NASCAR in Charlotte.<br />
Liz did not see that coming but since<br />
a lot of college sports are being canceled,<br />
she is happy to be a NASCAR<br />
mom and thinks it might just beat<br />
being a hockey mom...maybe! Louie<br />
returned from deployment in Japan<br />
and will soon head off to San Diego<br />
for training. At least the two of them<br />
are having some excitement!<br />
Lisa Burwell Reichard is selling<br />
her house in MD and moving outside<br />
the Nashville area––preferably<br />
south of Nashville in the Spring<br />
Hill, TN, area––to be closer to her<br />
children and her brother, though<br />
when she sent her news, she was still<br />
looking for a house and a job, so we<br />
hope she is more settled now. Her<br />
eldest, Drew, and his wife, Katie, had<br />
fraternal twin boys in Nov.: Beckett<br />
and Elliott, 7 lbs. 13 oz. and 8 lbs. 1<br />
oz. at birth!<br />
Suzanne Stovall Clarke moved<br />
from Arlington, VA, to Tampa, FL,<br />
last summer when husband Rich<br />
was promoted and took command<br />
of USSOCOM (US Special Operations<br />
Command). Daughter<br />
Madeleine graduated summa cum<br />
laude from Tufts University in May.<br />
She is currently working for Boston<br />
Area Gleaners and hopes to join<br />
AmeriCorps in a safer 2021. Son<br />
Will completed freshman year online<br />
at the dining room table due<br />
to Covid-19 and hopes to return to<br />
Northeastern in the fall. Suzanne<br />
spent the summer in western NC<br />
planning renovations to her home<br />
on Lake Toxaway. She was hoping to<br />
spend time on campus during <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
Work Weeks this year, and is excited<br />
that the daughter of a good friend is<br />
visiting campus soon and plans to<br />
apply next year! She hopes everyone<br />
stays safe and healthy during these<br />
unprecedented times.<br />
Betsy Becton Hannah started<br />
off <strong>2020</strong> in an adventurous way,<br />
with a work trip to Saudi Arabia<br />
for a project in training government<br />
HR specialists. She was also lucky<br />
enough to take her mom to Naples,<br />
FL, for the winter and got her back<br />
home just before March 13 arrived<br />
with a bang to start the global shut<br />
down. She refers to herself as Pivot-Tina<br />
in helping her association’s<br />
members (still at the Association for<br />
Talent Development) train in the<br />
virtual world. While the work is rewarding,<br />
Betsy writes that it is also<br />
exhausting! But who isn’t exhausted<br />
by COVID-19? Husband Harry is<br />
working and healthy, and her mom<br />
is doing great. Betsy says she has<br />
watched all of the Netflix programs<br />
and done way too much online shopping!<br />
Karen Williams Wickre still<br />
lives in the Washington, DC, area<br />
and is active in the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
alumnae club. While this year the<br />
club was not able to hold many of<br />
the Washington Career Days, etc.,<br />
she enjoys still working with regional<br />
alumnae to support SBC, and joined<br />
the Washington International Horse<br />
Show SBC booth and also was<br />
able to see President Woo at earlier<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> events hosted by Heidi<br />
Cromwell ’85 and others. Karen<br />
is enjoying working remotely and<br />
spending more time outdoors with<br />
a couple of NYC and FL trips pre-<br />
COVID. She sends best wishes for<br />
good health to all.<br />
Staci Skufca keeps in touch with<br />
Anne Frierman Sewell, Ann Alleva<br />
Taylor, Kristin Bryan Burliss, and<br />
Juliet Jacobsen Kastorff. Staci is<br />
living the salt life in Ft. Lauderdale.<br />
If anyone is traveling through, please<br />
reach out anytime as she would love<br />
to catch up!<br />
Anne Frierman Sewell met up<br />
with Kristin Bryan Burliss and<br />
Staci Scufca at Hammock Beach for<br />
some sun and relaxation and a short<br />
break from her busy monogram<br />
business Properly Mine. She also<br />
catches up with Camille Williams<br />
Yow ’55 and Louise Jones Geddes<br />
in Atlanta from time to time.<br />
Laurie Scovel Pfeifer and her<br />
husband Brad (HSC ’83) still live<br />
in Hyannis Port. Not much has<br />
changed except that they now have<br />
a yellow lab puppy named Sampson.<br />
Teaching kindergarten remotely in<br />
the spring was challenging, and at<br />
time of writing, she was still waiting<br />
to hear what this school year will<br />
bring. Laurie and Brad see Eithne<br />
Broderick Carlin ’80 at her amazing<br />
restaurant DJ’s Family Sports Pub<br />
quite often!<br />
As for me, I’ve missed being able<br />
to catch up in person with lots of<br />
you and blame COVID for that,<br />
and I am really looking forward<br />
to a new year with hopefully more<br />
freedom to congregate and travel!<br />
I spent the first part of the year in<br />
Australia helping Jim deal with the<br />
aftermath of the Australian bushfire<br />
on his business there. Got home on<br />
March 10, just as things were shutting<br />
down, and Jim and I have been<br />
apart ever since, as he is still in Australia<br />
which has closed borders going<br />
in and out and, of course, as of late<br />
July, international travel from the<br />
USA has all but dried up. I realize,<br />
however, that this is outside my control<br />
and during this crazy year I am<br />
trying to focus on the things over<br />
which I have control. The rest is a<br />
waste of energy! Other (better) news<br />
includes that daughter Lucia graduated<br />
from Tulane and moved to DC<br />
where she is living with Mathilde<br />
Sharman, daughter of Elizabeth<br />
Cahill Sharman. Those two also see<br />
Seline Morrissette, daughter of Melissa<br />
Cope Morrissette ’83 (and niece<br />
of Laura Morrissette Clark ’85).<br />
Additionally, my son, Giles (W&L<br />
’16), just got engaged to a cute girl<br />
named Margaret Brown. Margaret’s<br />
mom is Suzanne Schmitt Brown ’85<br />
who attended SBC for two years before<br />
graduating from Tulane. So, of<br />
course, I love Margaret! How small<br />
is that world?<br />
If you haven’t been back to SBC<br />
in a while, I encourage you to do so.<br />
The campus looks beautiful, and<br />
there are so many positive things<br />
going on right now. The Class of ’84<br />
nearly beat its own all-time best reunion<br />
participation rate in the fundraising<br />
that ended June 30. Now is<br />
a great time to go on and make that<br />
gift for the new fiscal year. Let’s beat<br />
our previous best participation rate!<br />
Hopefully you can attend an SBC<br />
event near to you, and if you don’t<br />
know about one, then contact the<br />
<strong>College</strong> and see where the closest<br />
one is to you. We are still looking for<br />
a handful of lost classmates, so if you<br />
know one, please either send me her<br />
details or, better still, reach out and<br />
encourage her to get in touch. Like<br />
so many classmates have already<br />
stated, lots of love and wishes for<br />
good health and good times go out<br />
to all of you from me. Stay safe and<br />
well!<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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sbc.edu<br />
1985<br />
DeAnne Blanton<br />
501 E. Riverside Dr.<br />
Bridgewater, VA 22812<br />
ddblanton@gmail.com<br />
Suzanne Weaver Zimmer and<br />
husband Jeff are living temporarily in<br />
an apartment as they finish building<br />
their forever house in Fairhope, AL,<br />
where they have lived for 17 years.<br />
Josh (25) finished at Auburn in the<br />
architecture program and is working<br />
at a firm in Auburn; he and Emma<br />
were married in March. James (23)<br />
finished the automotive technician<br />
program at Universal Technical Institute<br />
in Orlando and is working at<br />
a repair shop that specializes in European<br />
car servicing and repair. He<br />
lives near his parents in Daphne, AL,<br />
and they enjoy that he is so close.<br />
Vicki Vidal Blum still works for<br />
Black Knight, a mortgage technology<br />
company. Sadly, her mom (SBC<br />
’48) died in late 2019, but she had<br />
a great long life and career. Vicki’s<br />
son, David, is off to Radford in Aug.,<br />
and will be playing soccer. Radford<br />
is keeping games close to campus, so<br />
Vicki and her husband are looking<br />
forward to seeing many of David’s<br />
games.<br />
Ellen Carver is in Norfolk, VA,<br />
with daughter Sophia (16) and husband<br />
Will Redfern, who is a retired<br />
professor and lawyer who is enjoying<br />
his new life as a master gardener. Ellen<br />
is executive director of Girls on<br />
the Run Hampton Roads, where she<br />
is empowering girls to be physically<br />
and emotionally healthy. Ellen keeps<br />
in touch with Louellen Brooks<br />
Meyer, who lives in San Angelo,<br />
TX, with her husband Robert. Both<br />
of her children are engaged! Son Vic<br />
lives in Fort Worth, TX, and will be<br />
marrying October 2, while daughter<br />
Vivian, lives in Austin, TX, and<br />
will marry in San Angelo on Jan. 9.<br />
Professionally, Louellen continues<br />
to be organist and director of music<br />
at First Presbyterian Church. She is<br />
also a piano accompanist and teacher<br />
of music appreciation at the local<br />
university.<br />
Maha Kanoo lives in Dubai,<br />
where she has been working from<br />
home due to the pandemic. She reports<br />
that her brother fell ill with<br />
COVID, and she is so very grateful<br />
that he is recovered. El Warner has<br />
also been staying home. She ventured<br />
out to VA in July for <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
Work Weeks and visited DeAnne<br />
Blanton and her husband, Dick<br />
Higgins, for a socially distanced<br />
lunch on DeAnne’s deck overlooking<br />
the North River.<br />
Renata Leckszas Davis is another<br />
classmate who isn’t leaving the<br />
safety of home, especially after she<br />
and husband Bill left Ecuador and<br />
the Galapagos just ahead of a major<br />
outbreak of the virus two weeks<br />
later. Renata isn’t substitute teaching<br />
due to the pandemic, so she has extra<br />
time for cycling and hiking.<br />
Both Whitney Machnik and her<br />
husband work in education: she as a<br />
high school math and computer science<br />
teacher, and Dave as a food service<br />
director. This year has, obviously,<br />
been challenging but they have used<br />
the time at home to work on training<br />
and agility with their dogs.<br />
Cheryl Young is an empty nester<br />
now. All three of her children<br />
have graduated from college and are<br />
working. Oldest, Tate (W&L ’13 is<br />
a lieutenant in the Navy and is stationed<br />
in Key West. Tim is a sailing<br />
captain and instructor for Offshore<br />
Sailing in Fort Myers. “He is married<br />
to beautiful daughter-in-law Christy,<br />
and they blessed us just before<br />
Christmas with our first grandbaby,<br />
Mary Catherine Ann (first to claim<br />
a spot for SBC 2037). Kayla, is a<br />
geologist about to start grad school<br />
at University of WY in economic<br />
geology. She is enjoying everyday<br />
SweeBOP-type activities as a sailing<br />
instructor by weekday and adventurer<br />
at all other times. Me, I now<br />
have my Coast Guard master-rated<br />
captains with a sailing endorsement.<br />
We all continue to sail and race in<br />
our family. Cheryl is keeping active<br />
with sports, teaching in our religious<br />
education, minister through music<br />
and guitar, organized a trap, neuter<br />
and return program for over sixty<br />
cats and kittens.”<br />
Karla Kennedy Hicks says despite<br />
the craziness in the world, she<br />
is very happy, almost 57. “I just celebrated<br />
my sixth wedding anniversary<br />
to my fabulous Illini husband, Jeff<br />
Hicks. I have been with Vanguard,<br />
the investment firm, for 10 years. I<br />
recently got a promotion there. My<br />
stepdaughter has had to reschedule<br />
and dramatically edit her dream<br />
wedding, but is taking it in stride.<br />
My daughter lost her dream job in<br />
international travel but she bounced<br />
right back. Shout out to Caperton<br />
Morton for helping in her job<br />
search. I had a great weekend with<br />
Stacy Zackowski Lukanuski and<br />
Martha Shorter Lanier Dougherty<br />
in Cleveland last fall. We went to an<br />
Indians game and drove home in an<br />
Uber in a tornado. No lie. We had<br />
to keep driving around fallen trees<br />
and electric poles. We vowed to get<br />
together this spring but you know<br />
how that turned out. Missed everyone<br />
horribly in May!”<br />
1986<br />
Alis Van Doorn<br />
alisvandoorn@hotmail.com<br />
Spunk Kuehlwein: “After 22+<br />
years as a law enforcements officer,<br />
and 28 years as a firefighter, I am<br />
hanging up my gun belt and bunker<br />
gear for retirement! My wife and<br />
I are working on some home improvements<br />
and enjoying some time<br />
traveling. I look forward to our next<br />
adventures! I have enjoyed connecting<br />
with fellow Vixens through Facebook.<br />
Cheers!”<br />
Terry Cerrina Davis: “Hope<br />
everyone is staying safe during this<br />
trying and scary time. We have made<br />
the most of the time at home these<br />
past few months doing yard work<br />
and spending time outside. I greatly<br />
enjoyed Zooming with SBC classmates<br />
and would love to do it again!<br />
We are holding out hope our daughter,<br />
Lindsay, will get to campus to begin<br />
her freshman year at Miami University<br />
in Oxford, OH, this semester<br />
after a less than desirable end to her<br />
senior year. Here’s to health and safety<br />
to all of you and your loved ones!”<br />
1987<br />
Kristen Kreassig Carter<br />
kcarter757@icloud.com<br />
EllenSmith<br />
ellensmith10@att.net<br />
Page Franson reports that her<br />
father died on Dec. 15, 2019. She<br />
is still rehabbing her knee from her<br />
last surgery on May 29 and is hoping<br />
that the scar tissue does not grow<br />
back. She is enjoying being on Cape<br />
Cod where her sister and her family<br />
just visited for a week; they had a<br />
great time cooking, eating and fishing.<br />
Anne Farrell is doing okay in<br />
Antioch, IL. She has been working<br />
at the same clinic for 23 years. She<br />
has been working with her dogs, trying<br />
to stay sane during the COVID<br />
crisis and hopes everyone else is, too.<br />
Kristen Kreassig Carter says<br />
that Pam Miscall Cusick and family<br />
visited them in Virginia Beach over<br />
the fourth of July weekend. They had<br />
a great time catching up and can’t<br />
wait to visit SBC when life returns<br />
to normal. Scotty is a rising junior at<br />
R-MC and is returning to campus<br />
late Aug. She and Dave celebrated<br />
their 32nd anniversary in May. Stay<br />
safe, healthy and happy!<br />
1988<br />
Jennifer Crawley Lewis<br />
7331 San Carlos Rd.<br />
Jacksonville, FL 32217<br />
lcrllc@aol.com<br />
Carrie Winkler Rowe sadly<br />
reports that our beloved Suzanna<br />
Reed Townsend passed away on<br />
July 3. Suzanna leaves behind three<br />
children; Isabelle, a gorgeous tall<br />
redhead, Andrew, her sweet son and<br />
Sally Reed, whom Carrie says is the<br />
spitting image of Suzanna. Carrie<br />
and Hilary von Maur were able to<br />
spend some wonderful weeks with<br />
Suzy Q relaxing in south FL over<br />
this past year. Their time with Suzy<br />
was a gift like Suzanna was to so<br />
many.<br />
Stacey Vilar Csaplar shares that<br />
she was planning to start a walking<br />
tour company in March but<br />
COVID-19 put this plan on indefinite<br />
hold. She decided to change<br />
course and go back to school at Harvard<br />
to get a graduate certificate in<br />
museum studies. Unfortunately, the<br />
COVID-19 situation has caused her<br />
daughter, Arden, to transfer out of<br />
SBC into UMass online so she can<br />
stay closer to home during the pandemic.<br />
Cecilia Moore has enjoyed<br />
Zoom visits with Rapti de Silva,<br />
Praka Punniamorthy Sahi, Anne<br />
Powell, Lee Ann Conard, Virginia<br />
Bennett Leeds, Beth Stookey Sargent,<br />
and Caroline Corum and also<br />
enjoyed the Class of 1988 Zoom<br />
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cocktail hour in the late spring. Cecilia<br />
is on sabbatical from the University<br />
of Dayton this fall and instead<br />
will be doing research on 20th<br />
century U.S. Black Catholic women<br />
lay leaders in church and society.<br />
Kate Cole Hite was hoping to<br />
have some news of a group of classmates<br />
getting together for a weekend,<br />
but COVID prevented them<br />
from gathering. However, she did get<br />
the chance to have lunch with Katie<br />
Keogh, who is still working for<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, and looks fantastic!<br />
Kelly Meredith Iacobelli is still<br />
working at Coca-Cola and teaching<br />
marketing at Georgia Highlands<br />
<strong>College</strong>. Her baby, Kathleen, will<br />
be leaving for Presbyterian <strong>College</strong><br />
in Aug. to study special education.<br />
Kathleen will be an NCAA Division<br />
1 athlete as a part of their acro<br />
and tumbling team. Of course, Kelly<br />
is disappointed that she won’t be a<br />
Vixen, but she is very happy with her<br />
choice of home. Cordelia the English<br />
bulldog looks forward to being the<br />
center of attention.<br />
Brenda Payne wants to wish us,<br />
her beautiful class sisters of ’88, that<br />
we too are all safe, healthy and happy.<br />
God bless!<br />
Maia Free Jalenak writes from<br />
Baton Rouge, LA, that her family<br />
celebrated COVID-style her son,<br />
Jack’s graduation from LSU Medical<br />
School in April and his wedding in<br />
May. Maia and husband Jay (HSC<br />
’87) helped Jack move to Charlottesville<br />
in June where Jack has begun<br />
his residency in internal medicine at<br />
UVA. They enjoyed visiting some<br />
wineries in the Charlottesville area<br />
and look forward to returning in the<br />
future.<br />
Jennifer Crawley Lewis shifted<br />
to empty nest status when Diana left<br />
for college at Rensselaer Polytechnic<br />
Institute, in the fall of 2019. “I’ve<br />
been playing tennis on my local team<br />
and volunteering at the North Florida<br />
School for Special Education in<br />
their therapeutic riding center. Max<br />
and I enjoyed our trip to Ithaca, NY,<br />
in Feb. to watch Diana score a ton of<br />
points for RPI in the 100 and 200<br />
butterfly and various relays at the<br />
Liberty League Conference Championship.<br />
Diana and I had a wonderful<br />
spring break mother/daughter trip<br />
to St. Thomas and St. John’s US Virgin<br />
Islands just before COVID-19<br />
shutdown. I want to thank all of our<br />
classmates who wrote in to share all<br />
their news.”<br />
1990<br />
Jean Spillane Benning<br />
1120 Walnut Farm Rd.<br />
Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002<br />
1990<strong>Sweet</strong><strong>Briar</strong>@gmail.com<br />
Thanks to all of you who kindly<br />
submitted class notes. I know this is<br />
the first place many of you jump to in<br />
order to see what’s going and to keep<br />
in touch! We all appreciate your willingness<br />
to share what is going on in<br />
your lives, and I hope to hear from<br />
more of our classmates next time.<br />
LuAnn Hunt: “<strong>2020</strong> has been<br />
an up and down year for us all! My<br />
husband, Larry, and I both retired<br />
this year (Larry retired in March; I<br />
retired at the end of May). I was with<br />
the City of Lynchburg for 29 years.<br />
Now I get to focus more attention<br />
on my photography business! I’ll be<br />
starting up a new service this summer,<br />
Princess Moments, where little<br />
girls get to dress up like a princess,<br />
have their photos taken and receive<br />
several gifts. Along with retirement<br />
comes more opportunity to visit<br />
my grandkids in NC, ages 16 to six,<br />
and they’ll get to come visit here in<br />
Amherst more, too! So far during<br />
the pandemic, my family has all been<br />
healthy. We’re doing our part by social<br />
distancing and wearing masks<br />
in public. Let’s all pray that by the<br />
time these notes are published that<br />
COVID is in the past! Stay well<br />
Vixens!”<br />
Kelleigh Klym Friesen stays in<br />
touch with Tracey Thomas Jones<br />
and Lea Harvey. “My family, horses<br />
and private practice are my focus<br />
pre-COVID and mid-COVID.<br />
Our family has taken up hiking and<br />
enjoying the beautiful Rocky Mountains<br />
just 20 minutes away. Ava, 12,<br />
is the joy of my life. She hopes to<br />
be a <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> first-year in a few<br />
more years! Thinking about all our<br />
classmates and hoping you and your<br />
loved ones are well and safe. See you<br />
at the next reunion.”<br />
Amy Kroeger: “Through Zoom<br />
and texts I’ve been riding out the<br />
pandemic with lots of fun and support<br />
from class of ’90 and a few other<br />
SBC comrades in crime. Thank<br />
you all for sticking together as we<br />
struggle with isolation and illness.<br />
I continue to practice on the Tohono<br />
O’odham Indian Reservation in<br />
southern AZ, but I am now doing<br />
inpatient only. Whew! I just got<br />
back from PA where I was able to<br />
have my first in-person visit with my<br />
mother—outside and me wearing<br />
my N-95. She is 87 so I was very<br />
grateful for the opportunity.”<br />
Julie Brooks Nyquist: “Our remodeling<br />
project continues on our<br />
home and property. We’ve had the<br />
opportunity to accomplish quite a<br />
bit of work during COVID. My<br />
10-year-old son has learned that he<br />
truly does not want to be homeschooled<br />
and going to school is better<br />
than being stuck at home. My husband<br />
has been able to transition to a<br />
home office and enjoys not traveling.”<br />
Allison Miree Novellino:<br />
“During the down time I caught up<br />
with Nancy Jones in Bluffton, SC,<br />
and Sallie McIlheran Wunner in<br />
Munich, Germany. Desperate times<br />
call for desperate measures; our family<br />
travelled in an RV, The Alabama<br />
Bubble, to visit our 88-year-old granny<br />
in Princeton, NJ, recently. It was<br />
a unique experience and possibly the<br />
start of a new family tradition. Who<br />
knows where we will go next.”<br />
Heather Colson Ewing: “I’m so<br />
sad that we missed celebrating SBC<br />
and our 30th reunion together! David<br />
and I have quarantined between<br />
Atlanta and the North Georgia<br />
Mountains with Olivia who is a<br />
junior at Denison. Nick graduated<br />
from Sewanee in May and moved<br />
to CO. I love working with the<br />
SBC Admissions Ambassador program—please<br />
email me if you have a<br />
student you think would like SBC (a<br />
daughter, niece or neighbor).”<br />
Stacy Gilmore Handling: “This<br />
last year I spent time with Amy<br />
Donnelly Tobik and Jean Spillane<br />
Benning tailgating at Clemson<br />
football games. I saw Leslie Carson<br />
Albizzatti recently, too, as she<br />
is helping plan her son’s wedding in<br />
Charleston next year. Always fun<br />
to catch up with old friends. I hope<br />
everyone stays safe during these<br />
strange times.”<br />
Dr. Rosanna Jones-Thurman:<br />
“I am still running my private practice<br />
in psychology in Omaha, NE,<br />
and Council Bluffs, IA. Danny and<br />
I are empty nesters. John got married<br />
last fall, and we have a six-year-old<br />
grandson that came with the daughter-in-law.<br />
Derek is in KC, MO, in<br />
chiropractic school (the next Dr.)<br />
and Nichollis has been in Europe for<br />
two years painting at the Nerdrum<br />
School. We try to travel to both<br />
coasts to see family and see the two<br />
boys here as much as we can. We<br />
miss our painter! Life is good in the<br />
midwest!”<br />
Ann Marie Beatty Malone: “As<br />
terrible as this year’s quarantine has<br />
been, as a family, we are very grateful<br />
that our daughter, Alexandra, continues<br />
to progress positively through<br />
the maintenance phase of her leukemia<br />
treatment. We are counting<br />
down the days to June 21, 2021,<br />
when, God willing, she will complete<br />
her treatment protocol for good.<br />
For now, she will continue into her<br />
senior year of high school doing her<br />
classes online and has narrowed her<br />
choices of nursing schools to University<br />
of Pennsylvania, Villanova and<br />
Duquesne. Very much looking forward<br />
to seeing Jean Benning and her<br />
family at the Jersey shore this July.”<br />
Christine Carriere Zazulak:<br />
“Scott and I are still in New Orleans.<br />
Our oldest son, John, is getting married<br />
in early 2021. Our second son,<br />
Robert, graduated with his master’s<br />
from Rhodes <strong>College</strong> and is now an<br />
accountant. David is graduating in<br />
Dec. with a computer engineering<br />
degree. Stephen is a sophomore at<br />
LSU, and Philip is a sophomore at<br />
Jesuit. I was so sorry to miss reunion<br />
and hope to see everyone soon.”<br />
Dolly Garcia: “Everything is<br />
going very well in Puerto Rico. Miguel<br />
Juan, 23, is in his last year of<br />
law school, Little Dolly is a senior<br />
at Marquette, and Mari is getting<br />
ready for her senior year of virtual<br />
high school. Still keep in touch with<br />
many of my SBC friends including<br />
Jean Benning, Ann Beatty Malone,<br />
Beth Hensley Martin ’91 and<br />
daughter Katherine ’20<br />
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Amy Kroeger, Jill Armstrong Tracy<br />
and Joan Armstrong Abington.<br />
I’ve enjoyed many Zoom meetings<br />
with the Class of 1990. After the<br />
lockdowns are lifted everyone should<br />
come down to the beach for a visit.”<br />
Jean Spillane Benning: “As for<br />
myself, I was fortunate to go on a<br />
family vacation early in March of<br />
this year to St. Thomas. We had a<br />
great time, and it was fun to get away.<br />
This year, I will have a sophomore at<br />
Clemson, a senior who is looking at<br />
a variety of schools for college and a<br />
sophomore in high school. We will<br />
be spending a week at the beach with<br />
Ann Malone in Loveladies on Long<br />
Beach Island, a trip that we’ve been<br />
doing for years. Keep in touch and<br />
feel free to join the SBC Class of<br />
1990 group on Facebook!”<br />
1993<br />
Dianne Hayes Doss<br />
didoss@comcast.net<br />
Norma Bulls Valentine<br />
norma_v0@yahoo.com<br />
Jennifer Mooney Risey: “It’s<br />
been a crazy year with my father<br />
passing from Alzheimer’s and relocating<br />
my mother to Atlanta at the<br />
start of COVID. She’s been living<br />
at my house since March, waiting<br />
to get clearance to move into her<br />
assisted living facility, but the governor<br />
has placed them all on lockdown.<br />
Looking ahead, I am gearing<br />
up to be an empty nester, with my<br />
middle son, Aidan, now attending<br />
Georgia Tech studying architecture,<br />
and a house divided with the older<br />
son, Jackson, attending University of<br />
Georgia. Jackson will graduate early<br />
and get his masters in accounting<br />
in four years and has his internship<br />
lined up with Price Waterhouse for<br />
next summer. My daughter, Marigny,<br />
is graduating from high school a year<br />
early as well and hopes to be playing<br />
volleyball in college (COVID really<br />
put a dent in recruiting) so have no<br />
clue where she’ll end up next fall.<br />
In the meantime, I’m still managing<br />
Lantern Capital Advisors in Atlanta<br />
and planning my relocation to my island<br />
where the water is wide.”<br />
Dianne Hayes Doss: “Hubby<br />
Bill and I continue to explore the<br />
world with our kids, Dan and Jenny.<br />
Currently, that means working<br />
and schooling from home and bird<br />
Norma Bulls Valentine ’93 and Tracy Imse Thomson ’93<br />
Nancy Bulls ’93 and Beth Hensley Martin ’91<br />
watching, gardening, cooking and<br />
day trips around GA. Thankful for<br />
virtual connections to friends and<br />
family to keep us all sane.”<br />
Norma Bulls Valentine: “Norma<br />
spent the winter in Wellington, FL,<br />
before returning to her farm in Aiken,<br />
SC. Norma and Nancy Bulls live<br />
together on the farm with five horses,<br />
a donkey, Eeyore, and five dogs, and<br />
they are still in real estate. Norma’s<br />
late husband’s granddaughter is attending<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> this fall. She had<br />
dinner with Tracy Imse Thomson<br />
in FL. Nancy Bulls is still at the farm<br />
in Aiken, SC. We see Beth Hensley<br />
Martin ’91 and her daughter, Katherine,<br />
a recent SBC graduate.”<br />
Debra Elkins: “I still work for<br />
HHS in DC, and recently adopted<br />
two rescue Siamese cats, Gates and<br />
Rumsfeld.”<br />
Amy Riley: “I recently spent a<br />
weekend with Kaci Chandor DelPlato,<br />
Lisa LaLonde Hamaker and<br />
Susan Messikomer Horenkamp in<br />
Charleston at Kiawah Island. They<br />
had an amazing time celebrating<br />
Amy’s engagement!”<br />
Laura Hammer: “I still live in<br />
Cedar Rapids, IA, with my husband,<br />
Keith. We are coming up on 27 years<br />
of marriage next month. I am still<br />
working at a local hospital as an ultrasound<br />
technologist. Our youngest<br />
son, Andrew, just finished his sophomore<br />
year at Utah State University.<br />
He is majoring in human biology<br />
and biochemistry, with thoughts of<br />
medical school in the future. Our<br />
middle son, Ethan, just graduated<br />
from Utah State University, with<br />
two BAs: first in conservation and<br />
restoration ecology, second in wildlife<br />
and ecology management. He<br />
hopes to get a job with the National<br />
Parks Service. Our oldest son, Keith,<br />
just finished his master’s in performance<br />
percussion from Rice University.<br />
He will continue on towards a<br />
second master’s from Bard <strong>College</strong>,<br />
while starting a three-year fellowship<br />
with The Orchestra Now as their<br />
timpanist. We are happy and healthy,<br />
and so are all of our families. I hope<br />
all of you are as well!”<br />
Jennifer Jarvis Ballard: “I loved<br />
watching my daughter be a first year<br />
Vixen this past year. She loves being<br />
there. After taking two classes this<br />
summer, she is graduating a year early<br />
in the Class of ’22. I am looking<br />
forward to both of us having <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong> rings this spring but a little disappointed<br />
we won’t be in the same<br />
reunion years (we would have been<br />
’93 and ’23). It has been wonderful to<br />
have an excuse to make so many trips<br />
to our beautiful campus this year! I<br />
am looking forward to many more<br />
visits over the next two years.”<br />
Sutapa Mukherjee: “I hope this<br />
note finds you and yours healthy<br />
and safe during the pandemic. My<br />
family and I are still living in beautiful<br />
northern CA with our three<br />
kitties, who have been glad to have<br />
us working from home. I am still<br />
working at Oracle. My daughter is<br />
a rising junior at Lafayette <strong>College</strong>,<br />
pursuing dual degrees in mechanical<br />
engineering and international studies.<br />
Unfortunately, her study abroad<br />
in Germany was cut short. A bright<br />
spot despite the pandemic has been<br />
the increased time spent with family.<br />
I love sharing a lunch hour with my<br />
husband and daughter, who whip<br />
up delicious lunches in our kitchen<br />
every day. We’ve also been spending<br />
time doing socially distanced<br />
outdoor activities this summer. My<br />
daughter has been going to the barn<br />
and riding. We have enjoyed biking<br />
and hiking through the hills near<br />
our home along with occasional visits<br />
to remote beaches, always with a<br />
mask, of course. I cannot wait to get<br />
together with friends again after this<br />
pandemic is over. Hugs to all!<br />
Wendy Stevenson Lucia: Hello<br />
from Winchester, MA! I have enjoyed<br />
living in the Boston area with<br />
my husband, David, for 13 years<br />
now. I have worked as a physical<br />
therapist specializing in women’s<br />
health for Mount Auburn Hospital<br />
in Cambridge, MA, since 2009. I<br />
had a great visit with Melony Joe Ellinger<br />
and her lovely family in their<br />
new home in MD over the Christmas<br />
holidays. Since then I have been<br />
on a planned leave from work which<br />
coincided nicely with the sudden<br />
shift to remote schooling of my sons<br />
Chase (11) and James (nine). I am<br />
grateful for this time with my family<br />
while I consider my career progression.<br />
I keep in touch with Carolyn<br />
Imperato, who is a short drive away.<br />
I have loved the opportunity to see a<br />
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years and hope we are able to enjoy<br />
the luxury of connecting in person<br />
again soon. Be well!”<br />
Colleen Losey Daughtry: “Our<br />
family moved into our dream house<br />
after lots of sweat and tears this past<br />
year! Our oldest son, Matthew, graduated<br />
from high school in June. Our<br />
two daughters worked very hard in<br />
school ending up on honor roll all<br />
year long. My husband, Chris, appeared<br />
in the Super Lawyer <strong>Magazine</strong><br />
for VA for the fifth year in a row.<br />
As for me, I truly love teaching kindergarten<br />
and am walking into my<br />
29th year of teaching here in Virginia<br />
Beach! Our family is very blessed!<br />
1995<br />
Katie Maxwell Schellhammer<br />
22914 Goldenrod Dr.<br />
Brambleton, VA 20148-6967<br />
Katie@schellhammer.net<br />
Eleanor Dickinson will be having<br />
a solo art exhibit on Oct. 24 at<br />
Boswell Mourot Fine Art in Little<br />
Rock, AR. She says, “I’m very excited!<br />
Lots to do!”<br />
Kelly Hall reports “I am enjoying<br />
my job as director of global initiatives<br />
at Cedar Crest <strong>College</strong> (Yay for<br />
women’s colleges!) and just bought<br />
a house in Allentown, PA. I’m near<br />
Jennifer Parker Raudenbush and<br />
get to see her often. Planning a<br />
mini-reunion with her, Cari Miller<br />
James and Karen Giorgetti in August.”<br />
In July, Carson Scheppe Hobby<br />
got a quick visit with Buff Ramsey<br />
in St. Simmons, GA. She said, “It<br />
was wonderful to see her and her<br />
daughter, Sully. Hope everyone stays<br />
safe, and I look forward to seeing everyone<br />
at reunion 2021!”<br />
Several members of the Class of<br />
1995 have had high school graduates<br />
this year. Best wishes to them. We<br />
wish everyone good health and happiness<br />
until we see each other again<br />
at our reunion!<br />
1996<br />
Eileen MacMurtrie Zuckerman<br />
718 Larchwood Ln.<br />
Villanova, PA 19085<br />
eileenrita@gmail.com<br />
Jeff White, Marley White, Kimbie Shaheen White ’96, Max White,<br />
Thomas Namorato, David Namorato, Cakki Lattimore Namorato ’96, Jim<br />
Namorato, and Cakki’s dog, Wilson<br />
Sarah Dennis Roberts ’96 and family at Scissortail Park in downtown<br />
Oklahoma City<br />
Hello Class of 1996, hoping<br />
these notes find you and your families<br />
safe and healthy. Let’s get to it!<br />
I regularly keep up with Meg<br />
Magistro Arcadia, Cindy Rakow<br />
Readyhough, Leah Jorgensen Jean,<br />
Ardas Hiribarne Khalsa and Kate<br />
Mulligan who are all happy, healthy<br />
and taking care of numerous children,<br />
parents and animals. I’m hoping<br />
to wrangle them all to campus for<br />
our 25th next summer.<br />
Heather Baskett reports she is<br />
still animal care operations manager<br />
at Fairfax County Animal Shelter.<br />
She recently bought an amazing<br />
condo on the Occoquan Reservoir<br />
in Lake Ridge, VA. Let her know if<br />
you’re in the area and you can plan<br />
a visit!<br />
Angie Conklin Abell continues<br />
to work as a real estate broker<br />
on Chincoteague Island. Angie and<br />
Barry celebrated their 20th anniversary<br />
this year and will soon become<br />
empty nesters. Son Taulman (21) is<br />
a junior at UNCW, and daughter<br />
Hope will be going to the University<br />
of Florida. Angie hits the beach every<br />
chance she gets, loves her horses<br />
and lives the best life she can!<br />
Sarah Dennis Roberts loves<br />
keeping up with the Class of 1996<br />
on Facebook. Sarah serves as senior<br />
program officer at Inasmuch<br />
Foundation in Oklahoma City. She<br />
is a 2016 graduate of SALLT and a<br />
2019 graduate of Leadership Oklahoma.<br />
Sarah was honored this summer<br />
by Pivot as their Advocate of the<br />
Year for her work building collaboration<br />
around homeless youth. Sarah<br />
and Hayden have been married for<br />
21 years! Hayden works for Oklahoma<br />
State University, and he and Sarah<br />
enjoy hanging out with their two<br />
sons, Jackson (17) and Owen (11).<br />
Ashley Wheeler Glass checks<br />
in from GA and states that while<br />
COVID has kept her estate sale<br />
business closed, she took the opportunity<br />
to educate her staff in antique<br />
appraising. They will now offer personal<br />
property appraising full-time<br />
and to large estates. Ashley feels that<br />
we all have a duty to teach others a<br />
skill that will enhance their lives or<br />
give them the ability to do something<br />
they love. Well done Ashley!<br />
Jesse Durham Strauss has been<br />
enjoying happy hour Zoom calls<br />
with classmates Sarah Reidy Ferguson,<br />
Sarah Chaffee Paris, Janeen<br />
Sharma, Jen Beck Locke, Rachel<br />
Baltus Price and April Collins<br />
Potterfield and comparing how everyone<br />
is handling the stay-at-home<br />
orders. In July, she took her kids<br />
camping in Chincoteague, VA, and<br />
loved getting to see Angie Conklin<br />
Abell and meet her kids and animals.<br />
She continues to work part-time<br />
as an event consultant and spends<br />
most of her time shuttling her kids<br />
to and from various activities. She’s<br />
looking forward to our 25th reunion<br />
in 2021!<br />
Sarah Chaffee Paris has also<br />
taken part in the weekly Zoom calls<br />
with the gals above. Sarah was part of<br />
the fundraising team with Reidy and<br />
Jesse and is so proud of our class for<br />
increasing our participation to nearly<br />
40%. Besides her involvement with<br />
SBC, she is actively involved with<br />
her local democrats group. Sarah is<br />
text-banking with the Jaime Harrison<br />
campaign and writing postcards<br />
for others. She has trained to register<br />
people to vote and is looking forward<br />
to a drive-through voter registration<br />
in a few weeks. Sarah reminds us to<br />
“Please vote!”<br />
Sarah Reidy-Ferguson is in Atlanta<br />
and enjoys volunteering for the<br />
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Carson Scheppe Hobby<br />
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cations Working Group. She helps<br />
manage the Alumnae Alliance’s social<br />
media feeds and encourages everyone<br />
to follow on Facebook, Instagram,<br />
LinkedIn and Twitter for news<br />
and updates from the <strong>College</strong> and<br />
our alumnae community! A quick<br />
visit from Jesse Durham Strauss in<br />
July was a special treat!<br />
Jen Beck Locke and family having<br />
been living in Huntsville, AL ,for<br />
the past year and absolutely love it!<br />
Hunter commutes to Atlanta where<br />
he is the national director of sales<br />
for WestRock. He has been working<br />
from home since March and has adjusted<br />
well to teams and conference<br />
calls. Jen is a full-time volunteer and<br />
tutor at Whitesburg Christian Academy<br />
where Marte (17) is a junior<br />
and Trae is a seventh grader. Marte<br />
is a full-time academic overachiever<br />
taking two dual enrollment classes<br />
at community college and maintains<br />
above a 4.2 GPA. Trae is an A/B<br />
student and plays soccer and football.<br />
Jen also spends time at Thomas’<br />
school, Foster Academy, where he<br />
is in middle school. The Locke’s are<br />
doing great and have transitioned<br />
well to quarantine. They are fortunate<br />
to have a 400 acre farm a few<br />
hours away where they have a garden<br />
and lots of trails to roam. Jen talks<br />
to her brother, Chris, almost daily,<br />
and he and his wife, Susan Holman<br />
Beck ’98, and their two children are<br />
doing well in Dalton, GA. Chris is a<br />
successful metal sculptor, and Susan<br />
wears many hats including mother,<br />
lawyer and bookstore owner. Jen<br />
keeps up with a ton of SBC friends<br />
and sends an open invitation to anyone<br />
who wants to visit AL!<br />
During spring break Kimbie<br />
Shaheen White and husband Jeff<br />
(HSC ’96), along with their children<br />
Max (17) and Marley (15), visited<br />
Cakki Lattimore Namorato at her<br />
family’s lake house while on a college<br />
visit tour for their oldest son<br />
Max. They did a lot of catching up<br />
and listened to good music. One of<br />
the colleges they visited was Hampden-Sydney<br />
where they had a tour<br />
and caught up with Jason Ferguson<br />
(HSC ’96). In the fall, Kimbie<br />
will start her 20th year at Grace-St.<br />
Luke’s Episcopal School as middle<br />
school dean of students and 8th<br />
grade English teacher.<br />
Lastly, we’d like to express our<br />
sincere gratitude and thanks to the<br />
Class of 1996 for their continued<br />
support of <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
during the 2019-<strong>2020</strong> fiscal year<br />
of fundraising. For the third year<br />
in a row, the Class of 1996 are the<br />
leaders in class participation within<br />
the 1990s class bracket. Our success<br />
is truly a team effort! Wishing everyone<br />
a promising <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2020</strong>. XO,<br />
Eileen.<br />
1998<br />
Cynthia Hineline<br />
1613 Finefrock Rd.<br />
Fremont, OH 43420<br />
Cyndi.hineline@gmail.com<br />
Chantel Bartlett: “I am thrilled<br />
to announce the birth of Reese<br />
Teagan on June 30, <strong>2020</strong> (Class of<br />
2041?). It was a fairly uneventful<br />
and easy pregnancy despite the craziness<br />
of the pandemic. I’ve been<br />
immensely blessed by the support,<br />
love and advice from classmates and<br />
other Vixens far and wide. Reese’s<br />
birth has helped me build stronger<br />
and new relationships. I keep in constant<br />
contact with Kim Izquierdo<br />
who recently moved out of NYC to<br />
Long Beach, NY, Candice Maillard,<br />
Anna Wade and Andy Kubler Robinson<br />
’00.”<br />
Kelly Bowman Greenwood: “I<br />
managed to get my daughter through<br />
3.5 months of distance learning this<br />
spring without actually killing anyone,<br />
which was more challenging<br />
than any garden I’ve ever built and<br />
perhaps a more noteworthy accomplishment<br />
than my graduate degree.<br />
We sheltered in place in the Bay<br />
Area starting in mid-March, when I<br />
began making over 50 fabric masks<br />
to donate to the hospital in Reno<br />
where my sister is an NP. Neighbors<br />
saw my Instagram posts and before<br />
long I was selling them to the community<br />
at my neighbor’s farm stand.<br />
A portion of every sale is donated to<br />
World Central Kitchen.”<br />
Dana Bordvick Poleski: “ Working<br />
in the communications office at<br />
SBC since Jan. has been rewarding<br />
and challenging (I’m talking to you,<br />
COVID). Getting to know the<br />
students (I have four mentees) and<br />
working with such dedicated faculty<br />
and staff is inspiring. My Percheron/<br />
Paint mare, Lydia, turned 18 and<br />
continues to rock it as a trail horse<br />
and my BFF as we explore parks<br />
Chantel Bartlett ’98 with baby Reese Teagan, born June 30<br />
and trails with a great group of Amherst<br />
County riders (but not nearly<br />
as often as last year). My husband<br />
Mark’s wood sculpture business,<br />
SleepyHollowArtcom, has been doing<br />
remarkably well this year with<br />
big commissions across the US and<br />
internationally—still mostly bears<br />
with a few other animals sprinkled<br />
in. COVID nixed plans to go back<br />
to France this spring plus visit my<br />
dad in the San Juan Islands. I’ve<br />
been especially grateful this year for<br />
my closest friends, Kelly Bowman,<br />
Sophie Simonard and Misty Donathan.<br />
I’ve been focusing on building<br />
a healthy lifestyle, reigniting my artistic<br />
side and finally finishing home<br />
and barn projects while beginning<br />
to care for my mom as she navigates<br />
memory and cognitive issues. Congratulations,<br />
Chantel, on the birth<br />
of your beautiful daughter! And,<br />
Adair, thank you for your help with<br />
writing for SBC.”<br />
Adair Collins: Adair Collins is<br />
living in Richmond, VA, where she<br />
enjoys being close to family. She also<br />
is looking for a position in communications/marketing.<br />
She is primarily<br />
looking at management, senior writer/editor<br />
and content strategist roles.<br />
Heather Thomas Armbruster:<br />
“Like many, I’ve been teaching<br />
online since March. Since I have so<br />
much experience I was able to step<br />
into a support role for the other<br />
instructors on technical issues and<br />
pedagogy of online teaching. I also<br />
had the opportunity to serve on a<br />
task force for human anatomy and<br />
physiology society to help professors<br />
across the country develop what is<br />
a hard and traditionally hands-on<br />
subject into an online course. I have<br />
also been making masks with every<br />
second I have. I gave up counting<br />
a long time ago but am well over a<br />
hundred masks which includes sewing<br />
for friends, family, firefighters in<br />
NH, children’s rehab services and<br />
my local hospital. Because I didn’t<br />
have enough to do, I audited a class<br />
through SBC this summer with<br />
Kathy Carr. It was a lot of fun to<br />
be in class discussions again with<br />
classmates! It also gave me a chance<br />
to be a student in an online class and<br />
remember how to be a student. This<br />
fall will bring a new host of challenges<br />
with the 11-year-old in virtual<br />
school, teaching online and hybrid,<br />
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and most exciting for me, I start my<br />
second MS in human anatomy and<br />
physiology instruction!”<br />
TC Carolyn Kennedy Pyle: “I<br />
moved to Bentonville, AR, in 2017<br />
for a major career opportunity, but<br />
not with Walmart! Kids and hubby<br />
love it here, and so do I. It is a much<br />
better lifestyle than in metro Atlanta.<br />
Once the coronavirus hit, we<br />
were very grateful for the big house<br />
because five people at home was a bit<br />
much. Luckily my job is considered<br />
essential, so I got out occasionally.<br />
The best part of quarantine was a<br />
Zoom with Janine Schofield ’97,<br />
Kimbie White, Kelly Foit, Laura<br />
Million, Elizabeth Aycock and<br />
Nikki Keller ’96. We had not all been<br />
together since 1996.”<br />
Cyndi Hague Hineline: “The<br />
pandemic certainly threw my plans<br />
off for the year, as all singing and<br />
acting jobs have been put on hiatus<br />
for the foreseen future. However,<br />
several of the groups I’m involved<br />
with have been attempting to create<br />
virtual content for us to continue to<br />
use our creativity. I am currently continuing<br />
to work as a legal assistant in<br />
Toledo. My husband continues to<br />
teach American history and our son,<br />
Alex, is a sophomore in high school<br />
already. My, how time flies!”<br />
1999<br />
Kelly Turney Gatzke<br />
105 Shaw Creek Ct.<br />
Elizabethtown, KY 42701-4638<br />
warriorwomankelly@hotmail.com<br />
Angela Walton Carpita is completely<br />
grateful for the ongoing conversation<br />
with Megan Butt Glover,<br />
Tara Hartnett, Sarah Dorminey,<br />
Jill Triana, Elizabeth Melvin Wells,<br />
and Kibby Bryenton Fergusson ’00.<br />
Angela can scarcely go a day without<br />
a laugh or shared lean into strength<br />
with these Vixens, through all life’s<br />
ups and downs. It matters not how<br />
big or small a detail may be. Megan<br />
Glover and her family also house-sat<br />
for Angela over the fourth of July<br />
and cared for their mutually beloved<br />
Irish Setter. Megan’s willingness to<br />
pop in and help was a lifesaver.<br />
Emily Sartor Patterson has<br />
cozied up with her husband, Brad,<br />
11-year-old daughter and 10-yearold<br />
son to all work and learn from<br />
home during the COVID restrictions.<br />
Emily has been working for<br />
Duke Medical Center for 15 years<br />
providing counseling to patients<br />
with chronic illnesses and thankful<br />
she can offer her services remotely at<br />
this time.<br />
Shannon Smith Willis is living<br />
in Burlington, NC, with husband<br />
Duane, two kids, two cats, and a dog.<br />
Joshua is now five and will be entering<br />
kindergarten in the fall. Michaela<br />
will be turning two in Oct. She and<br />
Joshua have recently found a local<br />
farm to go riding at. Shannon says,<br />
“it’d been 20 years since I rode in a<br />
ring, so I’m happy to be back in the<br />
saddle again!”<br />
Jennifer Schmidt Major continues<br />
to love her work as a charge<br />
nurse in outpatient dialysis at US<br />
Renal Care. She was recognized by<br />
her clinic during the pandemic with<br />
the “Making A Difference” award.<br />
She and husband Michael celebrated<br />
21 years of marriage this year.<br />
In addition to their four kids, they<br />
now have two Coton de Tulear dogs,<br />
having added Lily to the family this<br />
April. Prior to the pandemic, she and<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> sisters, Abby Schmidt<br />
Anzalone ’00, and Kim Schmidt<br />
Miscavage ’01 had a wonderful<br />
reunion vacation at Walt Disney<br />
World.<br />
Blaire Wiley Wiznerowicz is<br />
bummed to have missed her FL vacay<br />
with Melissa Cicotello this year<br />
but is camping out couch-side with<br />
her two teens, husband, god-daughter<br />
and two Papillons in Richmond,<br />
VA. She and James celebrated their<br />
17th A\anniversary on July 26. She<br />
has spent the quarantine riding her<br />
bike, learning Swahili and supporting<br />
her local breweries. She hopes to<br />
spend more time on Aimee Armentrout<br />
Peacemaker.<br />
Rachel Bratlie and her family<br />
continue to adjust to life back in the<br />
US. Rachel continues hospital-based<br />
work and is adjusting to the challenges<br />
brought on by the COVID<br />
pandemic. So far, everyone has<br />
stayed well! Her boys will be six and<br />
nine-years-old and they are about to<br />
have their first drive-by birthday party<br />
next month.<br />
Jill Triana reports that “a daughter,<br />
Emory Baker York, was born to<br />
Jill Triana and Michael York on June<br />
4, 2019.” After enduring a geriatric<br />
pregnancy, adjusting to being first<br />
time parents, sleep deprivation, and<br />
putting her in nursery school, the<br />
global pandemic hit causing everything<br />
to come to a halt, like most. So<br />
basically, our days consist of laughter,<br />
tears, poopy diapers, work, more<br />
poopy diapers and a new affinity for<br />
Rose.” Thankfully, Jill’s counseling<br />
private practice, Capital Counseling<br />
(Raleigh, NC) continues to thrive.<br />
There’s a lot to be grateful for. Even<br />
the diapers.<br />
Lindsay Hicks Watrous and<br />
husband Tim have been busy breaking<br />
up fights between her three children,<br />
Drew (12), Owen (10), and<br />
Quincy (seven) since about mid-<br />
March. Fortunately, her job as a freelance<br />
writer allows her to work from<br />
home, which has become increasingly<br />
challenging due to aforementioned<br />
responsibilities. As she lives in one of<br />
the country’s desirable red zones, she<br />
is looking forward to more distance<br />
learning for the fall semester. She has<br />
redecorated her family room with<br />
a homeschool motif. Her design<br />
choices of IKEA desks, roller-chairs<br />
and bulletin boards would make Joanna<br />
Gaines weep with joy.<br />
Devon Vasconcellos Bijansky<br />
has mostly been staying home,<br />
baking one loaf of bread, cutting<br />
her husband’s hair four times and<br />
coloring her own hair once since<br />
March. Things she organized in the<br />
early days of the lockdown are messy<br />
again. Austin has gotten too hot for<br />
yard work. The bunnies have been<br />
indifferent to her and Steve’s increased<br />
presence.<br />
As for me, Kelly Turney Gatzke,<br />
I was offered a full-time position as<br />
the one-on-one IEP assistant with a<br />
special needs student in Sept. 2019.<br />
I realized it was not my forever career<br />
and that I need to figure out<br />
what I want to be when I grow up!<br />
I’ve spent the pandemic quarantine<br />
watching too many webinars, finally<br />
painting most of the things I wanted<br />
to paint, improving my green thumb,<br />
and collecting pots that look like<br />
animals (now designated pot-imals<br />
because I have too much time on my<br />
hands). Amelia (13) and Cameron<br />
(10) survived being home since mid-<br />
March and are ready for school to<br />
resume. Ben is all set to retire from<br />
the Army after 21 years in summer<br />
2021. We are excited and nervous<br />
about the possibilities and actually<br />
picking where we want to live! Stay<br />
safe and well, Vixens! Holla, Holla!<br />
2000<br />
Marilen Sarian Crump<br />
212 Rock Creek Court<br />
Yorktown, VA 23693<br />
artinspiredme@gmail.com<br />
Susan Bobb is finishing up year<br />
five in the Boston area where she is<br />
a professor of psychology at Gordon<br />
<strong>College</strong>, a small liberal arts school.<br />
She goes up for tenure next year.<br />
Husband Jamie works for an automotive<br />
startup, Benjamin (11) starts<br />
fifth grade this fall, and Jakob (six)<br />
and Nathan (six) first grade. After<br />
years of globe-trotting, we love finally<br />
having a landing place and being<br />
in the same time zone with our east<br />
coast family and friends.<br />
Elizabeth Davis Baker says hello<br />
from NC! She loved catching up<br />
via Zoom with many of you during<br />
the virtual 20th reunion and can’t<br />
wait until we can properly celebrate<br />
in person! She and Brian still live<br />
in Smithfield and just celebrated<br />
their 16th anniversary. She is now<br />
the department chair of English,<br />
humanities and foreign languages at<br />
Johnston Community <strong>College</strong> and<br />
loves being in administration, but<br />
the post-COVID world of higher<br />
education is quite a challenge! Miss<br />
you all and wishing you a safe and<br />
healthy rest of <strong>2020</strong>! XOXO<br />
2002<br />
Katie McNamara Brown<br />
2115 Natahoa Ct.<br />
<strong>Fall</strong>s Church, VA 22043<br />
mcnamara02@gmail.com<br />
It is with great sadness that we<br />
share the news of Kimberly Martin<br />
Robson’s passing. Kim will be<br />
remembered for her incredible devotion<br />
to friends and family, her<br />
passion for running and cycling, her<br />
beautiful smile, generous heart and<br />
love of horses and dogs. Our hearts<br />
go out to her husband, Michael, son,<br />
Camden, daughter, Madeline, and all<br />
family and friends who were blessed<br />
to know Kim.<br />
Alicia McCartney returned to<br />
the DC area in early 2018 after living<br />
in Cambodia for two years. Alicia<br />
returned to work at Freddie Mac,<br />
where she has spent the majority<br />
of her career, working in the areas<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Alicia McCartney ’02 and her dog,<br />
Karma<br />
Kimberly Martin Robson ’02<br />
of compliance and risk transfer. She<br />
adopted her first dog, Karma, from a<br />
local shelter at the beginning of the<br />
COVID-19 pandemic and is soon<br />
to be a first-time home owner in the<br />
Merrifield neighborhood of northern<br />
VA. To celebrate her 40th birthday<br />
last Oct., she spent two weeks traveling<br />
through Costa Rica, hiking,<br />
surfing and scuba diving. Alicia enjoyed<br />
amazing adventures living in<br />
southeast Asia and is now excited<br />
to finally put down roots in the DC<br />
area. Alicia hopes everyone in the<br />
Class of 2002 is happy, healthy and<br />
living their best life!<br />
Ashley Trantham Saunders has<br />
been living Groundhog Day since<br />
March 9 when her first work trip<br />
of many was canceled. Although<br />
she already worked from home and<br />
enjoyed the solitude, other people’s<br />
need for constant interaction has<br />
resulted in six to seven video conferences<br />
each day followed by hours of<br />
TV with a husband she wasn’t used<br />
to seeing every day. At least she’s only<br />
gained about 20 pounds!<br />
Rachel Roth Allred just completed<br />
her 17th year of teaching! This<br />
coming school year, she will be teaching<br />
fourth grade math and science.<br />
This past school year, Rachel coached<br />
the science bowl team to victory in<br />
the quarterfinal match. Rachel will<br />
serve on the PTA at her daughter‘s<br />
school as the communications secretary<br />
beginning this fall. This year<br />
Rachel celebrated her 40th birthday,<br />
her daughter‘s 10th birthday, and her<br />
14th wedding anniversary! Rachel<br />
sends all alums her best and hopes<br />
everyone is staying safe and healthy!<br />
Tia Trout Perez has been working<br />
remotely for months now, which<br />
presents a variety of challenges, but<br />
is enjoying not having to commute<br />
daily. She is beyond thrilled that her<br />
niece, Elyse Samassekou, daughter<br />
of Tamara Trout Murphy ’01,<br />
is starting SBC as a member of the<br />
Class of 2024 this fall!<br />
Amanda Davis Stevens became<br />
a named partner of her law firm in<br />
Jan. of this year. Amanda shares that<br />
it has been an interesting year dealing<br />
with the pandemic and transitioning<br />
to remote work. Amanda’s family<br />
just adopted an adorable puppy because<br />
one dog and two kids in distance<br />
learning wasn’t quite enough<br />
chaos!<br />
Louey and Serena Basten<br />
Kachinsky would like to announce<br />
the birth of their baby boy, Elijah<br />
Erle “River” Orion Kachinsky, born<br />
on April 1 on The Farm in Summertown,<br />
TN.<br />
Mary Tassone Dunlevy completed<br />
her Master of Arts in teaching at<br />
North Carolina State University in<br />
May. Mary is returning to teaching<br />
eighth grade English this fall after ten<br />
years as a stay-at-home-mom.<br />
Liz Waring McCracken is teaching<br />
two online dance courses at Appalachian<br />
State University in fall<br />
<strong>2020</strong>, as well as making sure Isadora<br />
(age 11) and Athena (age eight) learn<br />
something from virtual school. We<br />
enjoyed a socially distant summer<br />
by taking many hikes and renting a<br />
house by the Toe River near Asheville<br />
one weekend. Liz turned the<br />
big 40 and successfully flambéed a<br />
homemade Baked Alaska (why light<br />
candles when you can light an entire<br />
dessert on fire?!). All the McCrackens<br />
are looking forward to traveling<br />
once the world gets back to normal.<br />
Kathlyn Pierce is currently<br />
fostering an adorable kitten, Alfie,<br />
through an orphan kitten project<br />
associated with UC Davis. Kathy<br />
also mentors a foster child that she<br />
has been working with for over two<br />
years now. He’s 11 going on 15 lately,<br />
so he’s keeping her on her toes! She<br />
looks forward to getting back to her<br />
volunteer work with the local food<br />
bank and a shelter once the pandemic<br />
allows normal programming<br />
to resume. Kathy is still enjoying her<br />
career as a financial advisor and believes<br />
she has the best clients in the<br />
world. When Kathy rides her green<br />
bike with white Hawaiian flower decals<br />
and a wicker basket on the front<br />
around, it always reminds her of her<br />
bike riding days at SBC. Kathy misses<br />
everyone and is eagerly awaiting<br />
the end of the pandemic.<br />
Amy Mullen is thoroughly enjoying<br />
the work-from-home life and<br />
overspending with DoorDash. She is<br />
currently researching how to keep a<br />
pet snail. Amy hopes to master skateboarding<br />
by the end of the year.<br />
Jaime Henna traveled a couple<br />
times each to NC, CA, NY and CO<br />
over this past year. When not traversing<br />
the country, she calls a little<br />
corner of Charlottesville, VA, home.<br />
There, she obsesses over backyard<br />
garden design and is steadily transforming<br />
a small patch of earth once<br />
covered in rocks into a wonderland<br />
rich with plant life. She spent the<br />
summer working, reading, doing<br />
puzzles, watching TV, going on<br />
short walks or scooter rides with<br />
her boyfriend and generally avoiding<br />
prolonged exposure to the heat and<br />
humidity of a central VA summer.<br />
Aja Grosvenor Stephens and<br />
family have survived the severe<br />
COVID spike in NYC. She spends<br />
her days asking the schools to open<br />
up and take her child so she can<br />
participate in Zoom meetings. She<br />
occasionally ventures out to Target<br />
and Trader Joe’s. Aja’s fortunately<br />
younger than the rest of her classmates<br />
and hopes to celebrate her<br />
40th birthday in 2021 surrounded by<br />
other humans. Her favorite quarantine<br />
purchase has been an inflatable<br />
bath tub, and she also sewed her first<br />
pair of shorts.<br />
Jennifer Taylor Catano reports<br />
that in March she and her daughters<br />
enjoyed their spring break with lots<br />
of time with friends, swimming and<br />
roller skating. However, life took a<br />
major turn mid-March when Jenn<br />
spent a week in the hospital with a<br />
bacterial infection in her stomach<br />
and colon. Then due to COVID,<br />
Jenn’s family transitioned to virtual<br />
school and a new way of life. Jenn<br />
healed quickly and became involved<br />
in a local mask sewing group making<br />
masks for healthcare professionals in<br />
our area. Jenn’s sewing group worked<br />
so hard from March to June 1st that<br />
they were able to donate 4,200 fabric<br />
masks to local doctors and nurses<br />
and we also sent 200 masks to New<br />
York Presbyterian Hospital. In May,<br />
she celebrated her oldest daughter’s<br />
10th birthday with a scavenger hunt<br />
and birthday parade. Jenn’s girls are<br />
heading into fifth and first grade<br />
and are still waiting to see what this<br />
school year will be like! Jenn lives in<br />
Katy, TX, (a suburb of Houston)<br />
and the numbers have been very high<br />
there recently. She hopes they will get<br />
under control soon! Wishing all the<br />
very best! Stay healthy!<br />
Kathleen McNamara Brown<br />
and her husband Adam have both<br />
been working remotely full-time since<br />
March. As school transitioned to virtual<br />
sessions and activities closed, the<br />
family had to find new ways of working<br />
together to make the best of a difficult<br />
situation. Katie’s younger sister<br />
Maggie McNamara ’11 generously<br />
hosted Katie’s whole family out at her<br />
farm for much of the summer to allow<br />
for more outdoorsy activities and<br />
riding time for the kids while parents<br />
worked. It was a memorable summer<br />
at the farm with all the horses and<br />
dogs, doing barn chores, weeding the<br />
garden, reading, bird watching, hiking,<br />
horseback riding and enjoying<br />
extra family time. Katie hopes this<br />
note finds all of you well and looks<br />
forward to the day when we can all<br />
get together again!<br />
2004<br />
Virginia Wood Susi<br />
2929 Dorell Ave<br />
Orlando, FL 32814<br />
ginnysusi@gmail.com<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Class of 2004<br />
Autumn Matysek-Snyder Fish<br />
is enjoying working as the school administrator<br />
at North Branch School<br />
where both her children attend,<br />
Xavier (11) and Daisy (six). She<br />
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Stephanie Gleason ’04, Andrea Stassi ’04, Jessica Porter Sadeq ’04,<br />
Kirkland Wohlrab ’04, Kerry Keins Mutschelknaus ’04, Anne Mohana ’04,<br />
Caitlin Webber Mazzucca ’04, and Heather Shumaker ’04 celebrated<br />
Andrea’s engagement and upcoming nuptials in Austin, TX<br />
started coaching swimming this fall.<br />
She sees Lori Kovatch Long ’01 at<br />
meets. She and Jeremiah celebrated<br />
their 15th anniversary in July. Jeremiah<br />
is still working fire and rescue.<br />
She sees Mary Morris Park and<br />
Mary David Roxer regularly. She<br />
hopes all are well!<br />
Kelly Gibbons Schell has been<br />
fighting the good fight by staying<br />
at home with two toddlers since<br />
March. She isn’t going crazy. She<br />
swears.<br />
Leah Davis Philhower is still<br />
living in SC. She’s staying home and<br />
doing virtual school with her boys,<br />
Jasper (four) and Paxton (11).<br />
Camille Simmons Smalling is<br />
enjoying life with her husband and<br />
19-month-old daughter. She is also<br />
enjoying her career in the field of human<br />
resources.<br />
Lisa Moore Walton and her husband,<br />
Marshall, welcomed the birth<br />
of their first child in March. Their<br />
son, Harlan, shares a birthday with<br />
mom! Lisa is going into her fourth<br />
year teaching high school science at<br />
Wye River Upper School in Centreville,<br />
MD. One of her students from<br />
the Class of <strong>2020</strong> is entering SBC as<br />
a first-year in fall <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
Stephanie Gleason and her husband,<br />
Neal, were thrilled to welcome<br />
the newest addition to their family<br />
this past May, Chloe Victoria Dyson,<br />
who is now two months. Her big<br />
sister, Elle (1-1/2) and two fur baby<br />
siblings are in love! During the pandemic<br />
Stephanie regularly Zooms<br />
with SBC sisters, Kerry Keins,<br />
Caitlin Webber Mazzucca, Anne<br />
Mohana, Jessica Porter Sadeq<br />
Heather Shumaker, Andrea Stassi,<br />
and Kirkland Wohlrab to maintain<br />
sanity. Pre-pandemic, these ladies all<br />
celebrated Andrea “Aunie” Stassi’s<br />
engagement/pending nuptials in<br />
Austin, TX. They are eagerly awaiting<br />
their next post-pandemic reunion!<br />
Stephanie remains employed<br />
at Naval Air Systems Command<br />
(NAVAIR) and will return to her<br />
position as operations lead for the<br />
V-22 Osprey Joint Program Office<br />
shortly following her recent parental<br />
leave. In this capacity, she will continue<br />
recruitment efforts with SBC<br />
engineering students interested in<br />
supporting Naval aviation. She is approaching<br />
her 10th year as a government<br />
civil service member this fall.<br />
2005<br />
Lynsie Watkins Steele<br />
1060 Allendale Dr.<br />
Charlottesville, VA 22901<br />
lynsie@getvie.com<br />
Cat Brumley is still living in the<br />
northern VA area. She recently made<br />
a career change to teaching and enjoys<br />
it. Working online like everyone<br />
else these days due to COVID! She<br />
misses everyone and campus, too.<br />
Christie Sears Thompson:<br />
Christie and her husband, Kevin<br />
(HSC ’07), welcomed their second<br />
child, Hannah Mae Thompson, on<br />
Nov. 18, 2019. Christie also has a<br />
thriving private practice as a marriage<br />
and family therapist in CO<br />
where she specializes in helping new<br />
and expectant parent couples.<br />
Elizabeth Churchill: “This year<br />
I’ve been busy looking for a job. After<br />
a divorce, I moved from Amherst<br />
County to northern VA in hopes of<br />
finding a better job. The pandemic<br />
has made this pursuit difficult, but<br />
I’ve been using the extra time to hang<br />
out with my dogs, cats and horse.”<br />
Joyce Scott is excited to begin<br />
pursuing a second master’s degree<br />
in Jan. 2021 at Brenau University in<br />
Atlanta, GA, this time as part of a<br />
career change to the field of occupational<br />
therapy. She was excited and<br />
grateful for the chance to reconnect<br />
with Alison Sims Courtney ’09 who<br />
was a huge help by providing advice<br />
and a reference during the application<br />
process. Joyce also recently<br />
became a certified therapeutic riding<br />
instructor and a licensed foster<br />
parent.<br />
Lynsie Watkins Steele: “So<br />
much change and all of it good! After<br />
my recent divorce, I am doing better<br />
than ever (it was a bumpy road, trust<br />
me)! I moved into a new house in<br />
Ivy, VA, (near Charlottesville) and<br />
I’m raising my four boys here while I<br />
run two businesses: an online cooking<br />
academy and a marketing and<br />
design firm. In my free time (ha!)<br />
I volunteer as the vice chair for the<br />
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s C-ville<br />
chapter for the Brewer’s Ball. I also<br />
donate my time as the senior online<br />
engagement coordinator to an amazing<br />
nonprofit called HEY! (Healthy<br />
Excited Youth) that helps address<br />
health and wellness education for<br />
at-risk youth in DC and NYC. My<br />
days are filled with laughter, food,<br />
design, gardening, fighting and making<br />
up. I could not be more grateful<br />
for this stage of my life!”<br />
Megan Knight Bowling: “ We<br />
moved back to Amherst last year and<br />
had surprise baby #3! I start graduate<br />
school in a few short weeks at<br />
JMU to become a family nurse practitioner!<br />
We are currently living with<br />
my mom while we build our custom<br />
home!”<br />
Torrey Ford Shallcross married<br />
Gary Paul Kraiss Jr. on Feb. 9of<br />
last year at Holy Trinity Catholic<br />
Church in Georgetown followed by<br />
a reception at the Metropolitan Club<br />
of Washington, DC, with Alexandra<br />
Lussier Kohlberger standing<br />
by her side as her matron of honor<br />
and joined in attendance by Lisa<br />
Lussier ’03. While working as a chief<br />
fundraiser and development director<br />
in Washington, DC, Torrey has recently<br />
begun her executive master’s<br />
in leadership at the Georgetown<br />
University McDonough School of<br />
Business.<br />
2006<br />
Victoria Chappell Harvey<br />
8618 Waldon Heights<br />
San Antonio, TX 78254<br />
victoria@gidgette.com<br />
Joelle Andrews is still living in<br />
Raleigh, NC, with her husband<br />
and two cats. In recent news, Joelle<br />
changed jobs and is now doing product<br />
marketing for Progress Software.<br />
She’s very excited for the change.<br />
Joelle is also excited to attend the<br />
wedding of Alexandra Blair this<br />
October in Kansas City, MO. Congratulations,<br />
Alex!<br />
Michelle Badger was elected to<br />
her fourth term on the school committee<br />
and was voted in by the committee<br />
to be vice-chair. Other than<br />
that, she has been working from<br />
home. She is hoping to see everyone<br />
at reunion the weekend of May<br />
28, 2021 (?) to celebrate 15 years<br />
(wow!). Thank you to everyone who<br />
helped get us close to our participation<br />
for FY20! Don’t forget to make<br />
your best gift to help our class reach<br />
our participation goal this year.<br />
Jenny Lynn is still working away<br />
at the Tin Shop at Colonial Williamsburg.<br />
This year will be the fifth<br />
year of being an apprentice and 10<br />
years at CW, but she is still on the<br />
third level of the apprenticeship.<br />
(Nevertheless, she persisted.) She<br />
really appreciates all of the alumnae<br />
who stop by to say hello when they<br />
come to visit!<br />
Joanna Meade-Runaldue has<br />
spent quarantine with personal<br />
training clients online, training her<br />
rescued pit bull puppy, completing<br />
some home renovations and preparing<br />
for a baby girl to arrive in Oct.<br />
Additionally, she is completing a<br />
certification in pre and post-natal<br />
personal training and looks forward<br />
to helping more moms and momsto-be<br />
get stronger and healthier.<br />
2007<br />
Emily N. Olson<br />
5238 Lake Shore Drive<br />
Waco, Texas 76710<br />
emilynicoleolson@gmail.com<br />
Erica Kennedy McCallie and<br />
her husband, Andrew, celebrated her<br />
birthday in France in March. It was<br />
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Erica Kennedy McCallie ’07 and her husband Andrew celebrating her<br />
birthday in Mar. <strong>2020</strong> in Paris, France<br />
Morgan Roach Vina ’07 and her<br />
husband Stephen welcomed their<br />
beautiful daughter, Dylan Elise<br />
Vina, on July 16, <strong>2020</strong><br />
their first trip abroad and she says,<br />
“J’aime la France!” Erica was recently<br />
promoted to senior information<br />
technology capability specialist at<br />
Tennessee Valley Authority where<br />
she has been working for 12 years.<br />
Erica and Andrew will celebrate 12<br />
years of marriage in June.<br />
In Feb., Eleanor O’Connor traveled<br />
to Portland, OR, for the Pub-<br />
West conference and was lucky to be<br />
able to meet up with classmates Kimberley<br />
Battad, Laura Jane Schaefer<br />
and Rebekah McSpadden Burger<br />
for a Class of 2007 mini-reunion. It<br />
was her first time seeing Bekah since<br />
graduation day! She writes, “It was a<br />
joy to see them and talk about where<br />
we all are in our lives right now—13<br />
years later!”<br />
Heather Bowen has been working<br />
by day at a busy gallery in Duck,<br />
NC, and by night she is making art<br />
and jewelry for her own business.<br />
She has an Etsy shop, a booth at<br />
the local farmer’s market and she<br />
sells jewelry and gifts through a few<br />
local stores on the Outer Banks.<br />
When she’s not making or selling<br />
art, Heather spends time with her<br />
two corgis. Many of our classmates<br />
may remember little Annie. She is 14<br />
now, but she is doing well. Heather’s<br />
younger corgi, Fletcher, is two, and<br />
he has been in agility training for<br />
about 18 months with the goal of<br />
competing when events start happening<br />
regularly again. Both Annie<br />
and Fletcher recently passed their<br />
evaluation to be registered therapy<br />
dogs, so they hope to be able to visit<br />
hospitals and senior centers soon.<br />
Heather also hopes to help implement<br />
a therapy program in her local<br />
elementary schools to help children<br />
improve reading skills by reading<br />
aloud to animals. Unfortunately,<br />
therapy visits of all kinds have been<br />
postponed due to the current health<br />
regulations, but they look forward<br />
to getting out there sometime in the<br />
future!<br />
Danielle Briggs-Hansen Chase<br />
is working in the Olympia Regional<br />
Office of Esri (Environmental Systems<br />
Research Institute) and loves<br />
it! She is acclimating well to her new<br />
life in Olympia, WA, all things considered.<br />
At the time of submission,<br />
Danielle and her husband Jesse were<br />
expecting their first child sometime<br />
around July 26.<br />
On July 16, Morgan Lorraine<br />
Roach Vina gave birth to a healthy<br />
baby girl, Dylan Elise Vina. Dylan<br />
weighed 7 lbs., was 19.4” long and<br />
came out sporting a full head of hair.<br />
Morgan and her husband, Stephen,<br />
could not be more in love with her.<br />
Proud aunt, Ryan Elizabeth Roach<br />
’10, was Dylan’s visitor.<br />
Kimberley Battad ’07, Laura Schaefer ’07, Eleanor O’Connor ’07 and<br />
Rebekah McSpadden Burger ’07 in Portland, OR in Feb. <strong>2020</strong><br />
2008<br />
Jessica Wilson<br />
122 Berkshire Pl.<br />
Lynchburg, VA 24502<br />
henson08@sbc.edu<br />
Jessica Wilson: “I recently completed<br />
my training to become an<br />
AFPA-certified Pilates mat instructor.<br />
I’m hoping to transition from<br />
teaching online to in person classes<br />
as soon as it is safe to do so. In the<br />
meantime, I am continuing to stay<br />
at home with my three children, Michael<br />
(10), Adalaide (six), and Rosalie<br />
(five), all of whom will be homeschooling<br />
through the pandemic.”<br />
Mary Berry: “Stephen (HSC<br />
’09) and I welcomed our son, August<br />
Graham Berry, on March 28, precisely<br />
in the midst of the pandemic. He<br />
has added such joy to a strange and<br />
stressful time, and we love watching<br />
him learn and grow. 2019 held one<br />
last hurrah for us before parenthood,<br />
when we hiked Patagonia—not exactly<br />
what I would recommend at 6.5<br />
months pregnant, but it was the trip<br />
of a lifetime and well-timed before<br />
the world shut down. We’re looking<br />
forward to introducing August<br />
to SBC and HSC friends when we<br />
can!”<br />
Dr. Laurel Berry: “My family,<br />
Chris Berry (HSC ’07) and our<br />
daughters, Emory (five) and Madison<br />
(20 months), and I moved to<br />
Winston-Salem, NC, where I am<br />
completing a fellowship in gynecologic<br />
oncology. We have connected<br />
with Sarah Dyer Terzian ’10 and<br />
husband Hillman Terzian (HSC<br />
’08) since moving here and enjoy<br />
spending time with them and their<br />
son, Dyer (six months). I am spending<br />
this year of my fellowship as a<br />
research fellow studying the immunogenicity<br />
of ovarian cancer.”<br />
Dawn Slekis: “I am extremely<br />
excited to announce our newest pack<br />
member, <strong>Briar</strong> Rose, a nine-week-old<br />
beagle puppy. She is enjoying running<br />
and annoying her older brother<br />
Jake, the shepherd. Jan. <strong>2020</strong> I welcomed<br />
a new niece and started a new<br />
job with the state of WV working in<br />
drinking water compliance and enforcement.<br />
This position moved us<br />
to South Charleston, WV.”<br />
Stephen and Mary Dance Berry<br />
’08 and their son August Graham<br />
Berry<br />
Dawn Slekis ’08 and her new pup,<br />
<strong>Briar</strong> Rose<br />
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Leah Jean Haas, daughter of<br />
Amanda Strickland ’09, was born<br />
Feb. 18, <strong>2020</strong><br />
2009<br />
Jenny Walkiewicz Dill<br />
13938 SW Crist Court<br />
Tigard, OR 97223<br />
Jenny.Dill11@gmail.com<br />
Lauren Schwartz Lazaro and<br />
her husband, Brice, welcomed Kenneth<br />
Michael into the world on April<br />
26, 2019. He weighed 9 lbs. 5 oz. and<br />
was 22” long! He joins his big sister,<br />
Virginia.<br />
Amanda Strickland and her<br />
husband bought a house at the end<br />
of 2019 in Hampton, VA. They also<br />
welcomed a beautiful and healthy<br />
daughter, Leah Jean Haas, on Feb.<br />
18, <strong>2020</strong> (SBC class of 2042)!<br />
Amanda started a new job as a museum<br />
specialist at the US Army Transportation<br />
Museum at Ft. Eustis, VA.<br />
Shannon Schalestock Friedman<br />
is over the moon to share that she<br />
and her husband, Matt (HSC ’04),<br />
welcomed their son, Haynes Arthur<br />
Friedman, on March 29, <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
Haynes Arthur Friedman, son of<br />
Shannon Schalestock Friedman ’09,<br />
was born March 29, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Lauren Schwartz Lazaro ’09 and her husband Brice with their daughter<br />
Virginia and their son Kenneth Michael, born April 26, 2019<br />
Paul Kenneth Denne Fincham,<br />
son of Doreen McVeigh, was born<br />
June 1, <strong>2020</strong> (his due date!) weighing<br />
8 lbs. and 1 oz. He is a beautiful,<br />
sweet and calm baby boy, and they<br />
are over the moon with happiness.<br />
Over the last year, Jessica Lile<br />
Hudson has been working in a new<br />
job as the director of social media<br />
marketing for MorningStar Home,<br />
Inc., and it has been really exciting!<br />
It is always fun to take on a new<br />
challenge and learn new skills. Their<br />
son was set to enter kindergarten<br />
this year, but with COVID, they are<br />
holding him back a year to ensure he<br />
gets a full year of four-year-old preschool<br />
(hopefully). We are hopeful<br />
for 2021.<br />
I, Jenny Walkiewicz Dill, have<br />
been staying busy chasing my daughters,<br />
Alexa (four) and Emmeline<br />
(nine months), around our home<br />
in OR. My husband, Jon, recently<br />
accepted a new position at Intel<br />
and has been remodeling our house<br />
every free minute he has! <strong>2020</strong> has<br />
certainly not been the year any of us<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> friends celebrate at the wedding of Jordan McIntire<br />
McKenzie ’11<br />
expected, but seeing these beautiful<br />
babies my SBC sisters are having<br />
gives me hope for a bright and beautiful<br />
future!<br />
2010<br />
Rosalie Morgan Louis<br />
Rosalielouis02@gmail.com<br />
Danielle Haines has an MAT<br />
in special education and currently<br />
teaches fourth grade as a special education<br />
teacher.<br />
2011<br />
Heather Marianne McTague<br />
1065 Brennan Drive<br />
Warminster, PA 18974<br />
HMMcTague@gmail.com<br />
Alexis Simmont Leonard: In<br />
March <strong>2020</strong>, she began working as<br />
the executive director of the therapeutic<br />
riding nonprofit Great and<br />
Small, which serves people with<br />
emotional, intellectual and physical<br />
disabilities in Boyds, MD.<br />
Melaina Macone: In March<br />
<strong>2020</strong>, she joined Mondelez International<br />
as the associate director of<br />
lean Six Sigma and capabilities. She<br />
moved to NYC with the company<br />
and splits her time between NY and<br />
LA.<br />
Jordan McIntire McKenzie<br />
married Mark McKenzie on Nov.<br />
2, 2019, in Richmond, VA. Sarah<br />
Melvin was one of the maids of honor.<br />
Other SBC ladies that attended<br />
the wedding were Keri Falk, Simone<br />
Morris, Lauren Smith, Jenny<br />
Young and Martha Schley Smith<br />
’12. She is currently wrapping up her<br />
second master’s in education leadership<br />
from George Mason University.<br />
Heather Marianne McTague:<br />
In March <strong>2020</strong>, she was tasked with<br />
finding an online platform for her<br />
adult eel school to use for teaching<br />
and then put in charge of all online<br />
teaching. She was looking forward to<br />
teaching kids aged six through fourteen<br />
how to code and create their<br />
own video games during summer<br />
camp for the second summer in a<br />
row but will have to wait until next<br />
summer because of the pandemic.<br />
She is looking forward to teaching<br />
her first non-credit class in flash fiction<br />
at Temple University this fall.<br />
Elizabeth “Ebie” Baker Starling<br />
married Jason Starling on May<br />
4, 2019. Amelia McDaniel ’94,<br />
Virginia Edahl Molan ’10, Maggie<br />
Balderston and Nell Malbon were<br />
in attendance. Evie currently works<br />
with Amelia at St. Mary’s Episcopal<br />
Church in Richmond, where so<br />
many amazing <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> women<br />
are members.<br />
Agnes Sabatt Working has been<br />
an engineering consultant for the<br />
pharmaceutical industry over the<br />
past eight years which has been both<br />
challenging and rewarding. She’s had<br />
the opportunity to learn many new<br />
skills as well as live in interesting<br />
places such as Atlanta and currently<br />
upstate NY. About four of those<br />
years she’s worked at Merck and will<br />
be starting another position, as a<br />
business analyst/technical writer, in<br />
June. She also just graduated with a<br />
MS in entrepreneurship and emerging<br />
industries from Syracuse University<br />
in May.<br />
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Carol Ferguson<br />
978 Ravine Drive<br />
Villa Hills, KY 41017<br />
ferguson12@sbc.edu<br />
Lucy Spangler, daughter of Greer<br />
Gordon ’12, in her vixen pants<br />
Greer Gordon was able to see<br />
Lindsay Eneguess Paulette ’11 before<br />
COVID exploded and Michigan<br />
was quarantined. But her biggest<br />
excitement came in the form of a<br />
little red-headed Vixen who joined<br />
the family in June. Louise “Lucy”<br />
Spangler is fierce like a <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
woman with the lung capacity of an<br />
Earphone. Her grandma even got<br />
her a set of Vixen pants, stating that<br />
the key to indoctrination is to start<br />
early! Congratulations, Greer!<br />
Emily Jones Dent is now teaching<br />
STEM lab to elementary students<br />
and working on a master’s<br />
degree from Florida Tech.<br />
2013<br />
Jackie Montero-Sharpe<br />
4949 Shannon Rd<br />
Kents Store, VA 23084<br />
jackiemontero@gmail.com<br />
Lindsay Davis Noble and family<br />
welcomed 9 lb. 8oz Oliver Lindsay<br />
Noble on April 15, <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
Yuliya Rigg Cormier, husband<br />
Nathan and their pup, Vixen, recently<br />
relocated to outside of Indianapolis.<br />
Yuliya is still with Earlham<br />
<strong>College</strong> Admissions but has transitioned<br />
into the assistant director of<br />
on-campus recruitment programs.<br />
In Dec. 2019, Jenness Gough<br />
graduated from the Alexander<br />
Oliver Lindsay Noble, son of<br />
Lindsay Davis Noble ’13<br />
Briseño Leadership program as one<br />
of 50 that got selected this year for<br />
the six-month program. In Dec.,<br />
she was selected to be a member of<br />
Leadership San Antonio’s 45th class,<br />
which will now be the longest class<br />
ever and run into 2021. Finally, in<br />
Jan. <strong>2020</strong>, Jenness started her own<br />
charcuterie and cheese board company<br />
called Cheese & Honey!<br />
Just after celebrating their twoyear<br />
wedding anniversary, Paige<br />
Tisher Carothers and her husband<br />
welcomed their twin boys, Collier<br />
Thomas and Knox William, to their<br />
family on June 1, <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
2014<br />
Elizabeth Kilgallin<br />
1812 Fifth St. NW<br />
Washington, DC 20001<br />
kilgallin14@sbc.edu<br />
Bethany Dearden recently started<br />
a new job at Veeva Systems in<br />
talent acquisition. They build enterprise<br />
cloud software for the life<br />
sciences, so she also gets to use her<br />
biology degree.<br />
Jacquie Oliver was engaged to<br />
Luke Kohart in Nov. 2019. She<br />
recently graduated from Eastern<br />
Virginia Medical School’s physician<br />
assistant program with Pi Alpha<br />
honors and is working in general<br />
and urgent care medicine in Virginia<br />
Beach.<br />
Elizabeth Kilgallin was engaged<br />
to Andrew Harnik in May ’20. To<br />
get through quarantine, they got a<br />
puppy named Scout! She works as<br />
a producer at the Markham Group<br />
in Washington, DC, and during<br />
COVID has been volunteering on<br />
Project N95’s communications team.<br />
Mary Earnhart has been with<br />
the federal government for four years<br />
in the office of contracting and procurement<br />
for DHS/TSA. She got<br />
her master’s in public policy from<br />
George Mason. She is working with<br />
Sarah Brazell ’12 to find/buy her<br />
first place.<br />
Kari Hamlet moved to Nashville<br />
in 2017. She has purchased a house<br />
and gotten a new job in spine surgery<br />
medical device sales.<br />
Olivia Smith has been living in<br />
Austin, TX, since May 2019. She<br />
has worked for a payroll/HR software<br />
company, Justworks, for 2.5<br />
years. She is switching to a product<br />
management role and will be moving<br />
back to NYC in 2021.<br />
Kati Decker Wood married Dr.<br />
Charles Garrett Wood in Feb. ’20<br />
and they just purchased their second<br />
veterinary practice in Charlottesville.<br />
She has started her own consulting<br />
business for small business owners<br />
looking to improve their marketing<br />
strategies.<br />
Victoria Eisenmann got her<br />
MAT at SBC and then moved to<br />
rural SC to teach fourth grade for<br />
two years. In 2017, she moved to<br />
Atlanta on a leap of faith and has<br />
been teaching special education at<br />
a low-income school ever since. She<br />
has become certified to teach gifted<br />
students, mentor, coach, and support<br />
new teachers, and is currently pursuing<br />
a doctorate in special education<br />
and should be writing her dissertation<br />
this time next year!<br />
Amanda Wager moved to Cleveland,<br />
OH, after graduating and<br />
worked at a nonprofit for a few years<br />
before starting law school in 2017.<br />
She graduated in May ’20 and is currently<br />
studying for the Bar!<br />
Adrianna LaCandia moved back<br />
to Chicago and worked in the beverage<br />
industry for almost four years.<br />
She applied to work in her dream industry<br />
which moved her to KY. She<br />
was able to use her chemistry degree<br />
in her past positions and is currently<br />
a distillery supervisor at Wild<br />
Turkey Distillery (be sure to let her<br />
know when you’re visiting the bourbon<br />
trail). In July ’20 she will close on<br />
her first home.<br />
Annie Imbrie moved to Seoul,<br />
South Korea, after graduating to<br />
teach English for two years. Next,<br />
she was in Costa Rica to work for<br />
the Peace Corps, and since then she’s<br />
been living in Dublin, Ireland, where<br />
she just received her master’s in international<br />
business from University<br />
<strong>College</strong> Dublin.<br />
Katherine Clark Bishop married<br />
Jeff Bishop in 2017. She would<br />
also like to announce that since graduation,<br />
she has gotten way more attractive.<br />
Sloane Victor Bly married Jon<br />
Bly in 2017. They welcomed their<br />
son, Holden Tommy Bly, in <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
Megan Link Freeman married<br />
Bobby Freeman in 2018. In <strong>2020</strong>,<br />
they welcomed their son, Robert<br />
“Beau” Wayne Freeman III.<br />
Courtney Selvage lives in Derry,<br />
Northern Ireland, and will finish her<br />
PhD at the University of Ulster in<br />
2022. She received her MA in Celtic/medieval<br />
studies from University<br />
<strong>College</strong> Cork in 2016 and University<br />
of Toronto in 2017. She has three<br />
publications coming out late <strong>2020</strong>/<br />
early 2021, has started working on a<br />
new Irish translation project and has<br />
been an editor for an academic journal<br />
since 2017.<br />
Sabrina Marth Graybill got<br />
married in Nov. 2019 and is completely<br />
obsessed with being a stepmom.<br />
She has been the director of<br />
operations for a youth development<br />
nonprofit for over two years. She<br />
plans to begin law school in fall 2021<br />
with the long-term goal of being a<br />
defense lawyer, with a focus on criminal<br />
appeals.<br />
Alex Yerkes lived up the barn<br />
manager life before going to Virginia<br />
Tech and graduating in <strong>2020</strong> as a<br />
veterinarian. She lives in MD and is<br />
currently working exclusively with<br />
horses at her dream job.<br />
Emily Cochran has stayed local<br />
to the Charlottesville area. For the<br />
last two years she has worked as a<br />
program director managing projects<br />
for Fortune 500 clients at WillowTree,<br />
a digital app agency. On<br />
the weekends, when not hanging<br />
out with her dog, Bailey, she enjoys<br />
getting back in the saddle riding for a<br />
local guide service company offering<br />
horseback trail rides through vineyards.<br />
Tyesha West started a new job<br />
in Dec. 2019 as a validation analyst<br />
with Boyd Caton Group, Inc.,<br />
a woman-owned consulting firm<br />
in Charlottesville. The job mostly<br />
entails validating annual reports for<br />
the Federal Transit Administration’s<br />
National Transit Database. Some<br />
of her favorite work projects have<br />
been creating a glossary for the <strong>2020</strong><br />
Policy Manual and helping create a<br />
manual for the technical help desk.<br />
Aside from giving her dog, Button,
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extra snuggles, she’s also spent quarantine<br />
learning calligraphy, reading<br />
and journaling.<br />
Murphy Owen Blackwell married<br />
Austin Blackwell in March of<br />
2017. She teaches third grade in a<br />
small private school in her hometown.<br />
They welcomed their precious<br />
baby boy, Owen, in Jan. 2018 and are<br />
expecting a baby girl in Aug.! She is<br />
finishing her master’s in education<br />
from Liberty University.<br />
Caroline Lacy attended The<br />
<strong>College</strong> of William and Mary School<br />
of Education and earned a MEd in<br />
school counseling. She is currently<br />
living in Mechanicsville, VA, and just<br />
wrapped up year three of working as<br />
a high school counselor. In May, she<br />
became engaged to Sean Reddy.<br />
Jodi Fritz moved to CA and<br />
currently lives in Silicon Valley. She<br />
is a project engagement manager for<br />
TEKsystems, a technical services<br />
company supporting Facebook.<br />
She is also a fitness instructor and<br />
teaches classes with Barre. She got<br />
married last year in Cabo and while<br />
she and her husband have no human<br />
children yet, their Pug and Bernese<br />
Mountain Dog are very much their<br />
babies.<br />
Catherine Freeman and fiancé,<br />
Turner Whitworth, were set to get<br />
married this June but, like many others,<br />
had to postpone their wedding<br />
due to coronavirus. They currently<br />
live in Richmond with their three<br />
(fur) children: cats, Bitty and Benjamin,<br />
and rambunctious lab, Charlie.<br />
After <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, she graduated in<br />
2017 from law school at W&L and<br />
now practices corporate law in the<br />
structured finance and securitization<br />
group at Hunton Andrews Kurth<br />
LLP. She spent her last year of law<br />
school working in the Death Penalty<br />
Clinic and liked it so much she decided<br />
to continue helping indigent<br />
defendants with wrongful conviction<br />
claims (many of whom are on death<br />
row or are serving life sentences)<br />
through pro bono work with the<br />
Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project.<br />
Lambda Green says one of her<br />
best decisions was to move to Puerto<br />
Rico in 2016 after buying a house<br />
there sight unseen! That sparked an<br />
interest for DIY rehabbing and renovating<br />
formally abandoned properties<br />
on the island; there’s something<br />
beautiful about taking a place that<br />
nobody wanted and transforming it<br />
into a commodity. She and her partner,<br />
George, own two homes by the<br />
beach in Puerto Rico and one property<br />
in Mallorca, Spain, which they<br />
both live in and rent as vacation rentals!<br />
Apart from real estate endeavors,<br />
she co-founded (with her partner)<br />
an international education company<br />
called Diversity Global. They<br />
provide access to meaningful international<br />
experiences for college/university<br />
students, particularly those<br />
who would not otherwise have the<br />
opportunity, and students from under-represented<br />
groups. They teach<br />
and cultivate a variety of marketable<br />
as well as practical skills and traits<br />
through the international experience,<br />
including (but not limited to): language<br />
skills, financial literacy, confidence,<br />
cross-cultural communication<br />
and humility. The aim is to promote<br />
a culture of global citizenship among<br />
program participants, and to use<br />
these experiences to encourage leadership<br />
on the local, regional, national<br />
and international level. Operating<br />
across five continents, the work continues<br />
to take them across the globe.<br />
It’s been a labor of love that never<br />
stops giving. Lambda says, “I never<br />
saw myself doing anything that I’m<br />
involved in now, but I couldn’t imagine<br />
doing anything else.”<br />
Nina R. Rezai graduated in Dec.<br />
with a master’s in public administration<br />
from ODU. She works for<br />
Campbell County local government<br />
in public works and recently started<br />
a new role as the manager of economic<br />
development. She has enjoyed<br />
staying in this area since she grew up<br />
here, and she also spends time volunteering<br />
with the Junior League.<br />
After graduating, Melanie Rinehart<br />
got her Master of Library Science<br />
with a specialization in archives<br />
and rare books at Indiana University<br />
Bloomington. In 2016, she started<br />
her first job with New York Historical<br />
Society as an assistant archivist<br />
at their Time, Inc., Archive. In May<br />
2019, after two and a half years at<br />
NYHS, she moved to Philadelphia<br />
to start her dream job as an archivist<br />
at the American Philosophical Society,<br />
which was founded by Benjamin<br />
Franklin in 1743!<br />
Becca Merves earned her certificate<br />
from the NYU Summer<br />
Publishing Institute and is currently<br />
doing freelance work with a literary<br />
agency. After living in NYC for five<br />
years, she recently moved to southwest<br />
FL, where she is enjoying new<br />
adventures.<br />
Olivia Hurt Herndon married<br />
Hunter Herndon in 2016. They<br />
have welcomed two sons, Hobson<br />
and Baird.<br />
2016<br />
Julia Friend Eckstine<br />
18642 Manor Church Rd.<br />
Boonsboro, MD 21713<br />
eckstine16@sbc.edu<br />
Madeleine Coleman graduated<br />
June 13, <strong>2020</strong>, from Oregon State<br />
University in Oregon Health and<br />
Science University <strong>College</strong> of Pharmacy<br />
with a Doctor of Pharmacy<br />
degree. She has relocated to eastern<br />
OR to work as a float pharmacist<br />
for Safeway Pharmacy in Pendleton,<br />
OR.<br />
Megan Johnston is currently<br />
employed by Virginia Tech Department<br />
of Agriculture & Life Sciences.<br />
She works with the family nutrition<br />
program and is stationed in Charlottesville,<br />
VA, where she delivers<br />
nutrition education to low income<br />
youth across the city. She is currently<br />
working on a master’s program<br />
in nutrition in hopes of becoming a<br />
registered dietitian.<br />
Emily Dallas started working<br />
as an environmental scientist for an<br />
environmental consulting firm in her<br />
home state of New Jersey in Dec.<br />
2018. She is also almost finished<br />
converting a retired school bus into a<br />
tiny home, and plans to live in it fulltime.<br />
She hopes this will enable her<br />
to fulfill her lifelong dream of living<br />
literally anywhere except New Jersey.<br />
Julia Eckstine is currently a<br />
graduate student at Johns Hopkins<br />
University in Baltimore, MD, where<br />
she is completing a MS in clinical<br />
mental health counseling. She is also<br />
working at an inpatient psychiatric<br />
hospital as a mental health associate<br />
and hopes to continue working with<br />
adolescent clients in the future as licensed<br />
therapist. Since moving from<br />
Lynchburg, VA, back to her home<br />
state of MD in 2018, she has enjoyed<br />
the opportunity to get back into riding<br />
and showing horses again.<br />
2017<br />
Grace Culley<br />
culleyge11@gmail.com<br />
Megan Johnston ’16 (left)<br />
and Jessica Lusby ’17 (right)<br />
channeling their inner 90’s style for<br />
a community photo contest<br />
Shelby Macurak got married<br />
Sept. 14, 2019, and graduated<br />
from the University of Scranton<br />
with master’s in healthcare<br />
administration in Dec. 2019!<br />
In all the craziness of this year,<br />
Jennifer Johnson has been promoted<br />
within the Florida Department of<br />
Revenue, bought a new house, and<br />
been accepted to the MBA program<br />
at Florida State University! She is<br />
looking forward to starting some<br />
home projects and working on her<br />
master’s degree later this year.<br />
2018<br />
Cassandra Fenton<br />
1128 Hermitage Rd., Apt. 211<br />
Richmond, VA 23220<br />
fenton18@sbc.edu<br />
Shelby Benny: “I am in my final<br />
year of law school at the University<br />
of Florida Levin <strong>College</strong> of Law, and<br />
I am happy to be roommates once<br />
more with Jessie Schuster ’17! Jessie<br />
is also a third-year law student at UF,<br />
and it’s been so wonderful to have a<br />
fellow Vixen here in FL. When I am<br />
not in class, you can find me teaching<br />
hunter/jumper lessons and working<br />
with a local sport horse breeding<br />
program. After graduation, I plan to<br />
work as a public defender and join<br />
my partner in Jacksonville, FL, where<br />
he works as a prosecutor.”<br />
Emily Dodson: “Back in January,<br />
I started a new job back at our<br />
beloved alma mater in the alumnae<br />
office. I am so thrilled to have moved<br />
back to the Blue Ridge Mountains,<br />
and I am living in Lynchburg with<br />
my fiancé Miles Sadler (HSC ’17)<br />
and our dog, Rupert. We have settled<br />
into the new area by regularly<br />
visiting the local farmer’s market and<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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CLASS NOTES<br />
Class of 1950<br />
Lea Bennett – Alumnae Relations &<br />
Development<br />
PO Box 1057, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, VA 24595<br />
lbennett@sbc.edu<br />
Class of 1951<br />
Lea Bennett – Alumnae Relations &<br />
Development<br />
PO Box 1057, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, VA 24595<br />
lbennett@sbc.edu<br />
Class of 1957<br />
Carol McMurtry Fowler<br />
carol@curnon.net<br />
sbc.edu<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> participants in the wedding of Emily Melson ’18. From left to right: Caroline Thomas ’19, Syrena<br />
Falkengren ’18, Katie Hawk ’21, Emily Hawk Melson ’18, Emily Dodson ’18 and Courtney Barry ’18<br />
enjoying the parks and our big backyard!<br />
We cannot wait for our wedding<br />
on Oct. 10 in Richmond, I am<br />
sure it will be a joyous occasion with<br />
lots of Vixen and Tiger spirit!”<br />
Emily Hawk Melson: “I married<br />
Sam Melson (HSC ’18) on June 27,<br />
<strong>2020</strong>. I had several SBC alumnae<br />
in my wedding including Caroline<br />
Thomas ’19, Syrena Falkengren,<br />
Katie Hawk ’21, Emily Dodson and<br />
Courtney Barry.”<br />
2019<br />
Cecilia Mahan<br />
508 S Boundary St.<br />
Williamsburg, VA 23185<br />
Mahan19@sbc.edu<br />
Mikia Hundley works as a creative<br />
content manager for Secure-<br />
Give, a software company that provides<br />
digital giving to churches and<br />
nonprofits. She also nannies after<br />
work as a side hustle to help pay off<br />
her student loans. In her free time,<br />
she loves trips to Chick-Fil- A, and<br />
spoiling Cody Jo with belly rubs and<br />
cuddles, as deserved.<br />
Caroline Thomas relocated<br />
three times with her company,<br />
Sherwin Williams Automotive. She<br />
started as a management trainee at<br />
Sherwin and is now a branch manager<br />
in Newport News, VA. She also<br />
got engaged last Sept. and is hoping<br />
to start planning the wedding soon!<br />
Emma Rummel works for the<br />
Kentucky Department of Juvenile<br />
Justice in Louisville. She is purchasing<br />
a condo at the end of Aug.!<br />
Amelia Currin injured her back<br />
and hip in a fall off of her horse and<br />
is recovering and attending physical<br />
therapy. She has put her other plans<br />
on pause to recover!<br />
Nicole Sabovik lives in Richmond<br />
with her rescue, Mona. She<br />
also took in an elderly abandoned<br />
dog named Maple and gave her all<br />
the love in her last days.<br />
Chanel Friedrich worked as a<br />
raft guide in NC, went to CO for the<br />
winter and returned to being a raft<br />
guide in NC after COVID-19 shut<br />
down ski resorts.<br />
Aoife Magner says she is “thrilled<br />
to be working for Lilly Pulitzer as a<br />
manager at their Washington, DC,<br />
Georgetown location. Vixens are always<br />
welcome!”<br />
Emily Schlosberg started riding<br />
professionally with Peg Seals at<br />
Freedom Farm.<br />
Jade Smith works as a teacher’s<br />
assistant at an adult education center<br />
in Lynchburg, VA. She is studying<br />
for the GRE and hoping to apply to<br />
business school in France for next<br />
fall.<br />
Ailish Rhoades works as the international<br />
admissions counselor at<br />
SBC and has started house hunting!<br />
Brittany Bradshaw works in<br />
guest services at TopGolf and is trying<br />
different positions in different<br />
areas of work to find where she fits<br />
best!<br />
Anne Meyer moved to CO in<br />
Jan. <strong>2020</strong>, where she works as an<br />
imagery systems engineer for Maxar<br />
Technologies, a major satellite imaging<br />
company. She has also been actively<br />
competing with her horse over<br />
the summer in the Colorado Hunter<br />
Jumper Association.<br />
Sam Baker returned to CA after<br />
graduating and works for Talbots<br />
while figuring out her plans for graduate<br />
school!<br />
Maya White Wade got married<br />
on July 6, <strong>2020</strong>, and moved to the<br />
DC area to pursue her law degree.<br />
This spring she decided law is not for<br />
her, and she is currently in the process<br />
of applying to MPH Programs<br />
so she can work in public health.<br />
Heather Lakner currently lives<br />
in Annapolis, MD, and transitioned<br />
into a support role at Morgan Stanley’s<br />
Mclean, VA, office. She recently<br />
passed her FINRA Series 7 and 66<br />
exams!<br />
Olivia Byrd just finished her<br />
time at the Consumer Technology<br />
Association as the diversity initiatives<br />
intern. She is currently looking<br />
for her next position in the DMV<br />
area.<br />
I am starting my second year of<br />
law school in the fall at William &<br />
Mary, and I will be getting an MBA<br />
there as well in the dual degree program.<br />
Class of 1959<br />
Lea Bennett – Alumnae Relations &<br />
Development<br />
PO Box 1057, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, VA 24595<br />
lbennett@sbc.edu<br />
Class of 1974<br />
Bonnie Chronowski Brophy<br />
b.c.brophy@comcast.net<br />
Class of 1989<br />
Emmy Leung<br />
fan-han@prodigy.net<br />
Class of 1991<br />
Allene Doucette<br />
allenedoucette@gmail.com<br />
Class of 1992<br />
Amy Peck Driscoll<br />
apdriscoll@verizon.net<br />
Class of 1994<br />
Lenora Farrington<br />
farringtonlenora@gmail.com<br />
Class of 1997<br />
Melanie Vracas<br />
mevracas@comcast.net<br />
Class of 2001<br />
Meredith Taylor Eads<br />
meredithk8eads@yahoo.com<br />
Class of 2003<br />
Nicole Crowder<br />
swtnic@gmail.com<br />
Class of 2015<br />
Lea Gray<br />
graylm27@gmail.com<br />
Class of <strong>2020</strong><br />
Jordan Sack<br />
jordan.adams.sack@gmail.com<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS<br />
2019-<strong>2020</strong> • JULY 1, 2019–JUNE 30, <strong>2020</strong><br />
VISIONARY SOCIETY<br />
The Visionary Society recognizes and honors<br />
our largest donors with gifts in one year totaling<br />
$1,000,000 or more.<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Schwab Charitable<br />
MONUMENT SOCIETY<br />
The Monument Society recognizes and honors<br />
donors with gifts in one year totaling<br />
$500,000–$999,999.<br />
Anonymous (3)<br />
Richard C. Colton, Jr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Fitzpatrick III<br />
(Kelley Manderson Fitzpatrick, ’85)<br />
DELL SOCIETY<br />
The Dell Society recognizes and honors donors with<br />
gifts in one year totaling $100,000–$499,999.<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Blair C. Balmer<br />
Alice Cary Farmer Brown ’59<br />
Estate of Ruth Simpson Carrington ’21*<br />
Anne Taylor Quarles Doolittle ’78<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Frances and John Morse Charitable Fund, a<br />
donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment<br />
Charitable Gift Fund<br />
The Hadley and Marion Stuart Foundation<br />
Winborne Leigh Hamlin ’58<br />
Estate of Elizabeth Gurley Hewson ’46*<br />
Martha C. Holland ’72<br />
Holland-Iribe Family Foundation<br />
Judith Haskell Brewer Fund of the Community<br />
Foundation for a Greater Richmond<br />
Keenan Colton Kelsey ’66<br />
Catherine Lignelli<br />
Cornelia Long Matson ’58<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Mitchell<br />
(Virginia Cates Mitchell ’63)<br />
Frances Kirven Morse ’68<br />
John Nau<br />
William M. Passano, Jr. H’55<br />
(Helen Addington Passano ’55*)<br />
Kay Parham Picha ’70<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Russell A. Muser<br />
Estate of Elizabeth Pinkerton Scott ’36*<br />
Nan M. Stuart ’75<br />
Mildred Newman Thayer ’61<br />
W. L. Lyons Brown, Jr. Charitable Foundation<br />
Elizabeth C. Walbridge ’72<br />
Virginia Foundation for Independent <strong>College</strong>s<br />
COLUMN SOCIETY<br />
The Column Society recognizes and honors donors<br />
with gifts in one year totaling $50,000–$99,999.<br />
Anonymous<br />
The Atticus Trust<br />
Katherine W. Bienvenu Charitable Trust<br />
(Estate of Katherine Washburn Bienvenu*)<br />
Sarah Porter Boehmler ’65<br />
Mrs. Caroline Casey Brandt ’49<br />
Martin S. Brown*<br />
Estate of Ernestine M. Chandler ’44*<br />
Donna Pearson Josey Chapman ’64<br />
Community Enterprises, Inc.<br />
Heather Colson Ewing ’90<br />
Sarah Mott Freeman ’76<br />
Sarah Dabbs Fryer ’72<br />
Allison Roberts Greene ’81<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Griffin<br />
(Elizabeth Pearson Griffin ’62)<br />
Estate of Dorothy Compton<br />
Marks Herbruck ’51*<br />
Kathryn Trogdon Hightower ’67<br />
Estate of Esther Jett Holland ’43*<br />
John and Sarah Freeman Foundation<br />
Josey Foundation<br />
Susan C. Kesey<br />
Mary Scales Lawson ’70<br />
The Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation<br />
Harriet Wall Martin ’65<br />
Virginia W. Milam<br />
Cynthia Wilson Ottaway ’57<br />
Patricia P. Pusey ’60<br />
Letitia Sanders ’62<br />
Claude Becker Wasserstein ’82<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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FOUNTAIN SOCIETY<br />
The Fountain Society recognizes and honors donors<br />
with gifts in one year totaling $7,500–$49,999.<br />
Anonymous (3)<br />
Anonymous Member of the Class of 1978<br />
Accutype Services, Inc.<br />
Parry Ellice Adam ’62<br />
The Al Stroobants Foundation<br />
American Endowment Foundation<br />
Sarah G. Babcock ’83<br />
Barbara Gracey Backer ’71<br />
Bama Rags Recordings, LLC<br />
Ann Ritchey Baruch ’62<br />
Mary Brush Bass ’62<br />
Leslie Basten and David D. Basten<br />
Charla Borchers-Leon ’81<br />
Elinor Plowden Boyd ’74<br />
Amy Gibbs Brown ’99<br />
Eleanor Sledge Burke ’64<br />
The Honorable and Mrs. William J. Cabaniss, Jr.<br />
(Catherine Caldwell Cabaniss ’61)<br />
David N. Carne (Barbara Hastings Carne ’69*)<br />
Eugenie W. Carr ’68<br />
Catherine and William J. Cabaniss Advised<br />
Fund of the Community Foundation of<br />
Greater Birmingham<br />
Mr. and Mrs. F. Hudnall Christopher, Jr.<br />
(Claire Cannon ’58)<br />
Clara Weiss Fund<br />
Nan Robertson Clarke ’73<br />
Jeannette Singleton Cloyd ’75<br />
Bonnie C. Cord ’66<br />
Cord Charitable Foundation<br />
Nancy Webb Corkery ’81<br />
Melinda Treutle Courtland ’79<br />
Jane Ellis Covington ’60<br />
Lucy H. Coyle ’79<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Cross<br />
(Anne Frothingham Cross ’66)<br />
Estate of Lynne Smith Crow ’64*<br />
Susan Andrews Cruess ’79<br />
Laura L. Crum ’79<br />
Betty Rae Sivalls Davis ’58<br />
Mary DuBois<br />
Mimi Galloway Duncan ’42<br />
Jane R. Dure ’82<br />
Putnam Mundy Ebinger ’70<br />
Lucy Boyd Lemon Edmunds ’63<br />
EOS Foundation<br />
Fiduciary Charitable Foundation<br />
Max G. Fink<br />
Carol McMurtry Fowler ’57<br />
Martha S. Fruehauf ’80<br />
Caroline Chobot Garner ’54<br />
Ann Gateley ’70<br />
Susan Stephens Geyer ’74<br />
Robert L. Gipson<br />
Ann Winfree Gooch ’66<br />
Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation<br />
(Calvin and Virginia Cox Fund, James Gilliam<br />
Conrad Fund, and Charles F. Stevens Fund)<br />
Claire Dennison Griffith ’80 and<br />
Luther T. Griffith<br />
Mary Sutherland Gwinn ’65<br />
Cassandra Streett Hamrick ’66<br />
Mary Elizabeth Hannah ’62<br />
Adelaide H. Hapala<br />
Ashton Williams Harrison ’75<br />
The Harrison Foundation<br />
Karen J. Hartnett ’70<br />
Eleanor Frank Hazard ’81<br />
Katherine A. Hearn ’85<br />
The Helen S. and Charles G. Patterson, Jr.<br />
Charitable Foundation Trust<br />
Katherine Powell Heller ’78<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Helm, Jr. ’66<br />
Sandra G. Herring ’74<br />
Katharine Pauley Hickok ’72<br />
Kathy Jackson Howe ’78<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Leverett Hubbard, Jr.<br />
Rose Montgomery Johnston ’56<br />
JRD Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity<br />
Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Katherine J. and Harold R. Howe, Jr.<br />
Donor Advised Fund of Foundation For<br />
The Carolinas<br />
Mary A. Kelley ’70<br />
Jane Johnson Kent ’48<br />
Kenton and Amy Brown Fund, a donor-advised<br />
fund of The Winston-Salem Foundation<br />
Susan Walton Klaveness ’76<br />
Jo Ann Soderquist Kramer ’64<br />
Estate of Elizabeth Mears Kurtz ’58*<br />
Min Ho Kwaan ’60<br />
Helen Murchison Lane ’46<br />
Estate of Alice F. Laubach ’35*<br />
Deirdre A. Leland ’68<br />
Leonard G. Herring Family Foundation<br />
Virginia Sheaff Liddel ’52<br />
Lisa Wray Longino ’78 and George F. Longino III<br />
Luther and Claire Griffith Foundation<br />
Susan Jahn Mancini ’64<br />
Marie G. Dennett Foundation<br />
Mary E. Hannah Charitable Gift Fund of TIAA<br />
Charitable Inc<br />
Matthew & Genevieve Mezzanotte Foundation,<br />
Bank of America, N.A., Trustee<br />
Ashley Harper Matthews ’96 and Dave Matthews<br />
McNair Currie Maxwell ’63<br />
Tia Campbell McMillan ’66<br />
Lynne Pottharst McMillan ’69<br />
Rebecca Towill McNair ’60<br />
Margot Saur Meyer ’60<br />
Makanah Dunham Morriss ’66<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Helm, Jr. Fund at the<br />
Community Foundation of Louisville<br />
Susan Lykes Mueller ’70<br />
Gillian Munson<br />
Munson White Family Fund, a donor advised<br />
fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
June Speight Myers ’87<br />
NCAA<br />
Jane W. Nelson ’66<br />
Norfolk Southern Foundation<br />
Michelle L. O’Neill ’85<br />
Joanne Holbrook Patton ’52<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley F. Pauley<br />
The Pauley Family Foundation<br />
Kathleen Garcia Pegues ’71<br />
Perkins-Prothro Foundation<br />
Charlotte Prothro Philbin ’95<br />
Estate of Virginia Noyes Pillsbury ’44*<br />
The Quarterdeck Foundation<br />
Louise Weston Rainey ’74<br />
Ann Wesley Ramsey ’75<br />
Estate of Ann F. Rawley* and James Rawley*<br />
Diana D. Robin ’57<br />
The Rose Montgomery Johnston<br />
Family Foundation<br />
Mason Bennett Rummel ’83<br />
Betty Rau Santandrea ’70<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Whitney G. Saunders<br />
(Ellen Harrison Saunders ’75)<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong> Alumnae Club of Atlanta<br />
Frances Dornette Schafer ’70<br />
Marshall Metcalf Seymour ’64<br />
Jane Reeb Short ’74<br />
The Sledge Foundation<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Smiley<br />
Sarah Anderson Stanton ’89<br />
Leslie Corrado Stillwagon ’88<br />
Christina A. Svoboda ’84<br />
Marianne Oliveri Svoboda ’60<br />
Katherine Upchurch Takvorian ’72<br />
TIAA Charitable Inc<br />
Tianaderrah Foundation<br />
Jane (Kitchie) Roseberry Tolleson ’52*<br />
Gail Rothrock Trozzo ’64<br />
Mary Murray Trussell ’55<br />
U.S. Department of Agriculture<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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Georgene M. Vairo ’72<br />
Anne Hinshaw Vanderweil ’68<br />
Vanguard Charitable<br />
Jane Tatman Walker ’60<br />
Marion F. Walker ’72<br />
Judith Atkins Wall ’61*<br />
Betty Byrne Gill Ware ’55<br />
Still Waters Fund, a donor advised fund of<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Gwendolyn Weiner ’62<br />
Betty S. Weiss<br />
Hedi Haug White ’64<br />
Thomas E. White<br />
Florence Barclay Winston ’57<br />
Meredith Woo<br />
Woodland Foundation<br />
Cecilia Kirby Wraase ’74<br />
Wraase Family Foundation of Greater<br />
Washington Community Foundation<br />
Susan Snodgrass Wynne ’72<br />
Wynne Family Fund of Hampton Roads<br />
Community Foundation<br />
Suzanne Weaver Zimmer ’85<br />
BOXWOOD CIRCLE SOCIETY<br />
The Boxwood Circle Society, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s oldest gift<br />
society, recognizes and honors donors with gifts in<br />
one year totaling $2,500–$7,499.<br />
Anonymous (3)<br />
Katherine Cann Akers ’73<br />
Leslie Carson Albizzatti ’90<br />
Margaret Ryan Ale ’76<br />
American Psychological Foundation (APF)<br />
C’Anne Anderson ’68<br />
Harriette Hodges Andrews ’53<br />
Susan Spurrell Andrews ’91<br />
The Argo Foundation<br />
Sally Twedell Bagley ’67<br />
Brenda Muhlinghaus Barger ’65<br />
Rebecca Carter Barger ’81<br />
Victoria Bates ’74<br />
Jane Roulston Beaver ’62<br />
Colleen Bradley Bell ’89<br />
Ruth Marshall Bell ’67<br />
Cynthia A. Beller ’04<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Benjamin<br />
Heidi A. Benson ’05<br />
Kristin Farris Bergquist ’03<br />
Drusilla Hall Bishop ’78<br />
Clare Newman Blanchard ’60<br />
Bob and Holly Ulrich Fund of the Community<br />
Foundation for a Greater Richmond<br />
Claire Borrelli<br />
Martha L. Boudreau ’79<br />
Nancy Fleshman Bowles ’62<br />
Elizabeth Rodgers Boyd ’84<br />
Mary Jane Hipp Brock ’70<br />
Antoinette Christian Brown ’78<br />
Mary Lanman Brown ’50<br />
The Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust<br />
Margaret Price Bruno ’83<br />
Anne Cogswell Burris ’75<br />
Ethel Ogden Burwell ’58<br />
Carla Pellegrino Cabot ’84<br />
W. D. Campbell Insurance<br />
Suzanne Jones Cansler ’63<br />
Georgia Graham Carroll ’66<br />
Carter-Barger Family Fund of the Community<br />
Foundation of Gaston County, Inc.<br />
Elizabeth Dickson Frenzel Casalini ’82<br />
Latta Chapman<br />
Charles Jago Elder Foundation, Inc.<br />
Charles W. and Kristin A. Swain Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Heather L. C. Aspinwall Chiles ’95<br />
Christopher Fund, a donor-advised fund of The<br />
Winston-Salem Foundation<br />
Glenys Dyer Church ’73<br />
ClearIt, LLC<br />
Sarah Preston Clement ’75<br />
Heather Tully Click ’70<br />
The Coca-Cola Company<br />
Colleen & Bradley Bell Charitable Fund, a<br />
donor-advised fund of Morgan Stanley Global<br />
Impact Funding Trust, Inc.<br />
Virginia Upchurch Collier ’72<br />
The Comegys Bight Charitable Foundation<br />
Commonwealth of Virginia, Dept of Forestry<br />
Courtney Willard Conger ’53<br />
Deirdre S. Conley ’72<br />
Christine Strous Conner ’63<br />
Barbara Bush Cooper ’81<br />
Ann Kiley Crenshaw ’76<br />
Cullen Crispen<br />
Nannette McBurney Crowdus ’57<br />
Thomas I. Crowell (Mary Wheat Crowell ’42*)<br />
Jane McKenzie Davis ’03<br />
Christine Witcover Dean ’68<br />
Janet Myers Deans ’77<br />
Direxa Dick Dearie ’67<br />
Virginia S. deBuys ’64<br />
Lisa E. Diard<br />
Anne Kinsey Dinan ’68<br />
Alice Warner Donaghy ’62<br />
The Dorothy Kopmeier Vallier Foundation<br />
Diana Muldaur Dozier ’60<br />
Dr. Margaret Norris, UBS Donor-Advised Fund,<br />
administered by National Philanthropic Trust<br />
Renee Dupre Dugan ’00<br />
Cathleen Brooke Dunkle ’85<br />
Celia Williams Dunn ’61<br />
Virginia Jago Elder ’53*<br />
Martha Meehan Elgar ’67<br />
Helen Scribner Euston ’65<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. <strong>Fall</strong>on<br />
(Patricia Dolph <strong>Fall</strong>on ’84)<br />
Patricia Dolph <strong>Fall</strong>on ’84<br />
Mary Fleming Willis Finlay ’66<br />
Anne Riordan Flaherty ’78<br />
Judith Brown Fletcher ’71<br />
Cathy Patton Foose ’78<br />
Foundation For The Carolinas<br />
Gale Rogers Fortebuono ’64<br />
Four G’s Charitable Trust<br />
Mary Carter Frackelton ’72<br />
Mary Frank<br />
Jane Hutcherson Frierson ’74<br />
Natalie Roberts Funk ’66<br />
Heather MacLeod Gale ’75<br />
Virginia Del Greco Galgano ’64<br />
Michele A. Gargano ’88<br />
Eileen P. Gebrian ’72<br />
Louise Jones Geddes ’84<br />
Katherine A. Gibson ’83<br />
Mary Ware Gibson ’83<br />
Mark W. Gilkey<br />
The Glenridge Charitable Foundation, Inc.<br />
Ann Martin Gonya ’85<br />
Wayne Stokes Goodall ’48<br />
Jane H. Goodridge ’63<br />
Mary Pederson Grum ’65<br />
Mary Elmore Harrell ’64<br />
Elizabeth Trueheart Harris ’49<br />
Laurel Lea Harvey ’90<br />
Beverley Crispin Heffernan ’75<br />
Jacqueline Geets Henry ’92<br />
The Henry Foundation<br />
Henry Laird Smith Foundation<br />
Anne Day Herrmann ’64<br />
Jessica M. Hiveley ’97<br />
Renate Weickert Hixon ’60<br />
Linda Schwaab Hodges ’65<br />
Janet Storey Honick ’73<br />
Lesley Bissell Hoopes ’68<br />
Ashby Clark Hopkins ’85<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Philip D. Houck<br />
Jing Wang Huang ’68<br />
Mary Pope M. Hutson ’83<br />
Carol Dickson Jahnke ’86<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
James Lennane Fund 2 of the Sacramento Region<br />
Community Foundation<br />
Jane Feltus Welch Fund at the Community<br />
Foundation of Louisville<br />
Elizabeth Washabaugh Jarvis ’75<br />
John S. and Katharine W. Orton Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Grace Butler Johnson ’66<br />
Ann Thrash Jones ’78<br />
Phyllis Watt Jordan ’80<br />
Keeley Sullivan Jurgovan ’92<br />
Janet Hutchison Karpowicz ’70<br />
Jean Felty Kenny ’53<br />
Margaret Waters Keriakos ’67<br />
Bonnie Kestner<br />
Kevin & Anne Flaherty Family Fund at<br />
H. Community Foundation of North Central<br />
Wisconsin<br />
Younghee Kim-Wait<br />
Sally Old Kitchin ’76<br />
Ann Stuart McKie Kling ’74<br />
The Kling Family Fund<br />
Brooke Patterson Koehler ’65<br />
Shapleigh Donnelly LaPointe ’86<br />
Mary Anne Van Dervoort Large ’57<br />
Latta Chapman donor-advised fund of Morgan<br />
Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc.<br />
Ann Tremain Lee ’69<br />
Debra A. Lee ’90<br />
Ava Lennane<br />
Linda P. Maggard, L.P. Maggard Foundation<br />
Marcia Pace Lindstrom ’66<br />
Nan Dabbs Loftin ’81<br />
Love Wins, a donor advised fund of Fidelity<br />
Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Susan Posey Ludeman ’80<br />
Margot Mabie<br />
Mary Rhoda Mabry ’80<br />
Linda Poole Maggard ’75<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark M. Magruder<br />
(Ella Hanson Magruder ’75)<br />
Helene Bauer Magruder ’57<br />
Blanchette Chappell Maier ’73<br />
Karen L. Malmquist ’90<br />
Anne Baldwin Mann ’78<br />
Mary F. Miller, a donor advised fund of Fidelity<br />
Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Mary Lane and John K. Sullivan Charitable Fund<br />
of Vanguard Charitable<br />
Antonia Bredin Massie ’77<br />
Matchstick Charitable Fund, a donor advised<br />
fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Andrew S. McAllister<br />
Margaret Graves McClung ’53<br />
Gardner V. McCormick<br />
(Pamela Drake McCormick ’72*)<br />
Estate of Martha Hoffman McCoy ’44*<br />
Mary Lee McDonald ’65<br />
The MCF Charitable Fund at Schwab Charitable<br />
Harriet Kendrick Pascoe McFadden ’82<br />
McFadden Family Fund of the Community<br />
Foundation of Greater Birmingham<br />
Karen Jaffa Mc Goldrick ’79<br />
James M. McKinnon<br />
Marjorie Rebentisch McLemore ’70<br />
Dorothy Woods McLeod ’58<br />
Anne Milbank Mell ’71<br />
Mary Fitzhugh Miller ’64<br />
Sue Lawton Mobley ’55<br />
Morgan Stanley GIFT<br />
Betty Booker Morriss ’66<br />
Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, President Emerita<br />
Estate of Helen Turner Murphy ’56*<br />
Kathleen Bailey Nager ’53<br />
National Philanthropic Trust<br />
National Trust for Historic Preservation<br />
Mary Burwell Nesbit ’56<br />
Newcastle Foundation<br />
Margaret deLashmutt Newlyn ’62<br />
Linda Sims Newmark ’60<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Kent Newmark<br />
(Pat Winton Newmark ’69)<br />
Lindsay Smith Newsom ’67<br />
Ju-Ren Ngiam ’14<br />
Margaret Swann Norris ’45<br />
The Northrop Grumman Foundation<br />
Lamar Ellis Oglesby ’54<br />
Gail Robins O’Quin ’67<br />
Katharine Wilson Orton ’75<br />
Carol Barnard Ottenberg ’60<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Kathryn Taylor Paine ’99<br />
Margaret Weimer Parrish ’76<br />
Mollie Archer Payne ’58<br />
Deborah Haslam Peniston ’66<br />
PepsiCo Foundation<br />
Greta Barksdale Brown Peters ’66<br />
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Pierce, Jr.<br />
Jeannette N. Pillsbury ’72<br />
Susan Dern Plank ’73<br />
Andria Calhoun Plonka ’67<br />
Florence A. Powell ’80<br />
Anne D. Purinton ’70<br />
Leslie Armstrong Ramsey ’72<br />
Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc.<br />
Carol Reifsnyder Rhoads ’65<br />
The Richard Foundation<br />
Olga N. Rigg ’04 and David L. Rigg<br />
Lynne Riley-Coleman ’64<br />
Mary Cosby Rinehart ’61<br />
Norma Neblett Roadcap ’76<br />
Sarah Archibald Roberts ’83<br />
Stacey J. Rogers<br />
Lynn Kahler Shirey ’76<br />
Rouse-Bottom Foundation<br />
Elizabeth Beltz Rowe ’48<br />
Traylor Rucker ’65<br />
Sallie F. Scarborough ’75<br />
Katherine A. Schlech ’70<br />
Marylew Redd Schmieg ’83<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Parker Selbert<br />
Jane Russo Sheehan ’52<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sherman<br />
(R. Anne Pankoski Sherman ’96)<br />
Anne Ross Shipe ’75<br />
Hannah J. Silva ’05<br />
Courtney Arnott Silverthorn ’03<br />
Amy A. Simmons ’86<br />
Jana Portman Simmons ’82<br />
Sarah Garrison Skidmore ’56<br />
Elizabeth Gallo Skladal ’58<br />
Susan Hendricks Slayman ’60<br />
Ellen S. Smith ’87<br />
Holly L. Smith ’72<br />
Martha Schley Kemp Smith ’12<br />
Wendy Weiss Smith ’71<br />
Erin E. Sobotta ’99<br />
Soren, LLC<br />
Southwestern Energy<br />
Ava L. Spanier ’86<br />
Anne Stanley ’64<br />
Renata Sterling ’73<br />
Katherine Haskell Subramanian ’63<br />
Kay Pierce Sugarbaker ’93<br />
Mary Lane Bryan Sullivan ’58<br />
Meredith Thompson Sullivan ’74<br />
Virginia Wood Susi ’04<br />
Grace E. Suttle ’60<br />
Kristin Amylon Swain ’74<br />
Penelope S. Tadler ’91<br />
Margaret Cromwell Taliaferro ’49<br />
Ann B. Tedards ’70<br />
MarySue Morrison Thomas ’72<br />
Eleanor St. Clair Thorp ’58<br />
Virginia Hudson Toone ’53<br />
Christine Corcoran Trauth ’85<br />
Twin Myrtle Corporation<br />
Holly Silsand Ulrich ’81<br />
Margaret West Valentine ’55<br />
Norma Stieh Bulls Valentine ’93<br />
Katherine Kummer Varughese ’03<br />
Vincent S. and Nancy P. Jones Advised Fund 1 at<br />
the Rochester Area Community Foundation<br />
Sarah P. vonRosenberg ’72<br />
Wendy Igleheart Walker ’78<br />
Anne English Wardwell ’65<br />
Jane Oxner Waring ’58<br />
Margaret Smith Warner ’58<br />
Katharine McCardell Webb ’70<br />
Pamela S. Weekes ’83<br />
Wendy Weiler ’71<br />
Ellen L. Weinberg ’87<br />
Jane Feltus Welch ’55<br />
Wells Fargo & Co<br />
Pamela Hellmuth Wiegandt ’64<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Wilcoxson<br />
Elizabeth Harley Willett ’84<br />
Elizabeth Plunkett Williams ’48<br />
Lois Peterson Wilson ’26*<br />
Ariana Jones Wittke ’46<br />
Johanna Yaple Wolski ’70<br />
Diane Duffield Wood ’57<br />
Dana Dewey Woody ’58<br />
OAK SOCIETY<br />
The Oak Society recognizes and honors donors with<br />
gifts in one year totaling $1,000–$2,499.<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Ramona K. Akins ’77<br />
Cecilia C. Albert ’72<br />
Heather Pirnie Albert ’82<br />
AmazonSmile Foundation<br />
American Online Giving Foundation-Benevity<br />
Elizabeth Edwards Anderson ’70<br />
Judith B. Anderson<br />
Kelley Dize Anderson ’99<br />
Lucy Otis Anderson ’63<br />
The Ann and Frank Cahouet Foundation<br />
Florence Pye Apy ’53<br />
Victoria L. Archer ’81<br />
Pamela Henery Arey ’71<br />
Sallie Bernard Armstrong ’76<br />
Jan Huguenin Assmus ’69<br />
The Atlantic Services Group Charitable Trust<br />
Ashley Randle Averell ’75<br />
A. Hopie Carter Avery ’94<br />
Russell Bailey and Anne Lowrey<br />
Irving W. Bailey II<br />
Benjamin S. Baker (Susanne Nifong Baker ’97*)<br />
Katherine Barrett Baker ’83<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Paul S. Baker<br />
Dorothy Tobin Baldwin ’44<br />
Mary Fran Brown Ballard ’49<br />
Dorothy A. Bannish ’55<br />
Katherine Fons Barkley ’87<br />
Nella Gray Barkley ’55<br />
Florence Rowe Barnick ’80<br />
Marianne Muse Beard ’60<br />
Carol S. Bebb ’74<br />
Brandi Beck ’90<br />
Amanda M. Beller ’08<br />
Sophie MacKenzie Belouet ’68<br />
Mary Jane Berry ’73<br />
Claudia K. Berryhill ’72<br />
The Betty Bentsen Winn Foundation<br />
Theresa Birch-Beard ’85<br />
Barbara Blair<br />
D. DeAnne Blanton ’85<br />
Ann Young Bloom ’59<br />
BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Suzanne Edinger Boas ’68<br />
Diane Dunaway Boles ’82<br />
Mary Morris Gamble Booth ’50<br />
Barbara Sampson Borsch ’59<br />
Mary Blair Both ’65<br />
Desiree M. Bouchat ’83<br />
Christine Davis Boulware ’77<br />
Lee Carollo Boyes ’78<br />
Eleanor Boylston and Benjamin C. Boylston<br />
Boylston Family Fund of Coastal Community<br />
Foundation of SC<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Bradford<br />
Anne S. Briber ’69<br />
Beatrice Totten Britton ’65<br />
Mary-Dame Stubbs Broad ’50<br />
H. Virgina Pennel Brooks ’66<br />
Harold G. Brown<br />
Laura Lee Brown ’63<br />
Mary Jo Biscardi Brown ’86<br />
Rosamond Sample Brown ’64<br />
Shirley Poulson Broyles ’54<br />
Helen Bauer Bruckmann ’78<br />
Jean C. von Schrader Bryan ’82<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Heather Shettle Buerger ’88<br />
Susan Heitmiller Busch ’78<br />
Mary M. Buxton ’73<br />
Jean Shaw Byrne ’65<br />
C H Herbert Fund of Vanguard Charitable<br />
Margaret Wadman Cafasso ’61<br />
Ann Walsh Cahouet ’54<br />
Craig J. Cain<br />
Eugenia Dickey Caldwell ’65<br />
Rushton Haskell Callaghan ’86<br />
Helen S. Camblos ’70<br />
L. Clay Camp, Jr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Campbell<br />
Jodi and Gary Canfield<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Cantfil<br />
Christie Cardon ’96<br />
Estate of Mary Cooke Carle ’59*<br />
Martha Baum Carlton ’62<br />
Rew Price Carne ’59<br />
Victoria White Carpenter ’72<br />
Catherine Lanter Carrick ’96<br />
Carrie S. Camp Foundation, Inc.<br />
Mary Leigh Woltz Carrison ’70<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Carroll<br />
Sigrid Zirkle Carroll ’93<br />
Susan McGettigan Carroll ’77<br />
Elizabeth Stanly Cates ’63<br />
Elizabeth Brewer Caughman ’70<br />
Kiera M. Cavalleri ’15<br />
Bettye Thomas Chambers ’62<br />
Charles L. and Carter D. McDowell Charitable<br />
Fund of the Community Foundation for a<br />
Greater Richmond<br />
Lee Anne MacKenzie Chaskes ’83<br />
Cynthia Manning Chatham ’75<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Chatt II<br />
Elizabeth Howie Christian ’89<br />
Ingrid A. Christner ’79<br />
Barbara Little Chuko ’64<br />
Ginger Ryon Church ’85<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Clark<br />
Kirkland Tucker Clarkson ’53<br />
Clifton Foundation, Inc.<br />
Margina Dunlap Cogswell ’67<br />
Alexandra Carpenter Cole ’58<br />
Kelly Collins Lear ’96<br />
The Community Foundation of Western<br />
Carolina, Inc.<br />
Barbara Tragakis Conner ’85<br />
Elisabeth Ward Connors ’80<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Connor<br />
( Jocelyn Palmer Connors ’62)<br />
Connors Family Fund at the Greater Lynchburg<br />
Community Foundation<br />
Tara L. Conte ’03<br />
Anne Peyton Cooper ’50<br />
Martha Tisdale Cordell ’82<br />
The Covington Family Fund of the Community<br />
Foundation for a Greater Richmond<br />
Mary Cowell Sharpe ’79<br />
Heather Swenberg Craft ’93<br />
Craig and Emily Wall Family Foundation<br />
Paula Wirtzman Craighill ’63<br />
Molly Rogers Cramer ’81<br />
Margaret A. Craw ’72<br />
Cutler Bellows Crockard ’72<br />
Susan Bronson Croft ’64<br />
Faith Rahmer Croker ’54<br />
The Cromarty Foundation, Inc.<br />
Katherine N. Crowder ’03<br />
Jaquelin Ambler Cusick ’57<br />
Susan Holbrook Daly ’70<br />
Charlene La Fleur Damp ’98<br />
Lisa Buckingham Darr ’95<br />
Elise Wachenfeld dePapp ’55<br />
Patrick H. Dessart<br />
Emily Pitts Dixon ’71<br />
Dianne Hayes Doss ’93<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Marc Carpenter Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Kathleen Walsh Drake ’72<br />
The Drake Family Fund at the National<br />
Philanthropic Trust<br />
Margaret McClellan Driscoll ’92<br />
Jane Yoe Duggan ’53<br />
Dunlap Cogswell Foundation<br />
Dunlap Williamson Youmans Fund of the<br />
Community Foundation of Central<br />
Georgia, Inc.<br />
Helen C. Dunn ’64<br />
Lynne Manov Echols ’71<br />
Patricia Thornhill Edwards ’66<br />
Elise W. dePapp, M.D. Fund, a donor advised<br />
fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Debra A. Elkins ’93<br />
Ellen Mitchell Redd Foundation<br />
Jacqueline Littell Ellis ’58<br />
Elaine Jenks Emerson ’68<br />
Michela A. English ’71<br />
Kimberly Bramley Estep ’94<br />
Carol Brewer Evans ’75<br />
Marianne C. Fahs ’71<br />
Lenora L. Farrington ’94<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Rodger W. Fauber<br />
(Ann Sims Fauber ’64)<br />
Kimberly Harden Fella ’00<br />
Sarah Kalber Fiedler ’66<br />
Elizabeth Potts Fisher ’75<br />
Libby Harvey FitzGerald ’68<br />
Janna Staley Fitzgerald ’61<br />
Margaret Handly Fitzgerald ’67<br />
Catherine M. Flaherty ’80<br />
Jeanne Brassel Ford ’68<br />
Heather Beck Frank ’85<br />
Frank and Mary Roach Fund of the Community<br />
Foundation for a Greater Richmond<br />
Daun Thomas Frankland ’74<br />
The Frances Smith Charitable Fund at<br />
Schwab Charitable<br />
Page E. Franson ’87<br />
Mrs. Eric G. Friberg<br />
Kelleigh Klym Friesen ’90<br />
Kimberly Wood Fuller ’80<br />
Gail Sims Furniss ’64<br />
Elizabeth Moore Gardner ’58<br />
Nancy Corson Gibbes ’60<br />
Janet Nelson Gibson ’72<br />
Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas Gillies<br />
Marion P. Girard ’69<br />
Jane Piper Gleason ’74<br />
Gail N. Glifort ’86<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Victor R. Gold, Jr.<br />
Nancy L. Golden ’81<br />
Barbara Paulson Goodbarn ’83<br />
Robert Goodlatte<br />
Elizabeth Williams Gookin ’44<br />
Valerie Gordon-Johnson ’74<br />
Margaret Laurent Gordy ’78<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gorman<br />
Michelle Lennane Gorman ’89<br />
Patricia Roby Gotfredson ’84<br />
Patricia Paterson Graham ’79<br />
Lendon F. Gray ’71<br />
Patricia Barnett Greenberg ’74<br />
John Grigsby<br />
Dr. Kenneth D. Grimm<br />
Ann Morton Young Habliston ’82<br />
K. Ellen Hagan ’81<br />
Jane Eastin Hager ’67<br />
Barbara M. Hale ’60<br />
Alison S. Hall ’97<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Hall<br />
Metta Streit Halla ’55<br />
Mary Hapala<br />
The Harbor Foundation<br />
Mr. and Mrs. L. Parker Harrell, Jr.<br />
(Adele Vogel Harrell ’62)<br />
Lynn Prior Harrington ’58<br />
Harrell Charitable Gift Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment<br />
Charitable Gift Fund<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Kathryn H. Harris ’70<br />
Caroline Camp Harrison ’07<br />
Deborah R. Harvey ’82<br />
Connie G. Haskell ’70<br />
Barbara Cain Hegarty ’73<br />
Achsah Easter Henderson ’50<br />
Kathryn Barnes Hendricks ’70<br />
Charlotte Hoskins Herbert ’67<br />
Fred D. Herring (Helen Chapman Herring ’61*)<br />
Hannah E. Hesser ’10<br />
Anne Willis Hetlage ’56<br />
Thomas Lee Higginson, Jr.<br />
Elizabeth Simpson Hilberts ’81<br />
Susan Sudduth Hiller ’66<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Emory M. Hodges<br />
Margaret Millender Holmes ’63<br />
Emily Moravec Holt ’70<br />
Nancy Lea Houghton ’74<br />
Howe Foundation, Inc.<br />
Wanda Cronic Howell ’74<br />
Mary Jane Schroder Oliver Hubbard ’62<br />
Ann Frasher Hudson ’57<br />
Hallam Hurt ’67<br />
Lauren MacMannis Huyett ’79<br />
Huyett Family Charitable Fund, a donor-advised<br />
fund at BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Irving W. & Catherine T. Bailey II. Fund at the<br />
Community Foundation of Louisville<br />
Jack & Moira Lawrence Charitable Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Ann Biggs Jackson ’68<br />
The Jan and Gert Assmus Giving Fund of TIAA<br />
Charitable Inc<br />
Elizabeth V. Jensen ’08<br />
Jill Moses Kohlmannn/Jennifer Bach Rosen Fund<br />
at the Greater New Orleans Foundation<br />
JMD Donor Advsied Fund of Foundation For<br />
The Carolinas<br />
John and Mary Camp Foundation<br />
Karole Boggs Johns ’86<br />
Molly K. Johnson ’82<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Johnstone, Jr.<br />
Deborah H. Jones ’84<br />
Dona Van Arsdale Jones ’64<br />
Mary Sexton Jones ’53<br />
Ruina Wallace Judd ’61<br />
Ellen Nichols Jump ’60<br />
Neal Kassell<br />
Hilary Carlson Katerberg ’96<br />
Patricia Swinney Kaufman ’70<br />
Pamela Ford Kelley ’67<br />
Frances Barnes Kennamer ’71<br />
Carolyn Pyle Kennedy ’98<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Kientz III<br />
Virginia Lynch Kiseljack ’84<br />
Leanne Weber Kreis ’85<br />
Amy J. Kroeger ’90<br />
Carol A. Kroese ’74<br />
Priscilla Blackstock Kurz ’67<br />
Pembroke Herbert Kyle ’68<br />
Muriel Wikswo Lambert ’66<br />
Amy Campbell Lamphere ’80<br />
Catharine King Laufer ’96<br />
Mary E. LaVigne ’82<br />
Blair Walker Lawrence ’68<br />
Moira Erickson Lawrence ’80<br />
Dorothy Moore Lawson ’59<br />
Harriet Harrison Leavell ’81<br />
Elizabeth M. Lee<br />
Virginia Bennett Leeds ’88<br />
Ann Crowell Lemmon ’60<br />
Ann Colston Leonard ’47<br />
Diane M. Leslie ’73<br />
Colleen Kuebel Lewis ’84<br />
Marian Li ’68<br />
Lindsay Smith Newsom Family Fund of Triangle<br />
Community Foundation<br />
Mr. Douglas G. Lindsey<br />
(Sara McMullen Lindsey ’47*)<br />
Douglas G. Lindsey Giving Account, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Susan Anthony Lineberry ’79<br />
Miriam Wyse Linsky ’50<br />
Brooke A. Linville ’04<br />
Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb ’59<br />
Linda Lipscomb ’73<br />
Suzanne Petrie Liscouski ’91<br />
Suzanne M. Little ’68<br />
Whitney Bolt Loeber ’88<br />
Cheryl Harris Lofland ’79<br />
Edna-Ann Osmanski Loftus ’72<br />
Martha Watson Lombardy ’82<br />
Carroll C. Long ’67<br />
Ann Turnbull Lowry ’59<br />
Stacy Ludington ’12<br />
Stacy Zackowski Lukanuski ’85<br />
Margaret Cook Lunt ’60<br />
Cheryl Lux ’76<br />
Jennifer Swisher Lynes ’97<br />
Emily Crom Lyons<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John A. MacKinnon<br />
Meta Bond Magevney ’63<br />
Sarah Mahan<br />
Mariah Smith Malik ’86<br />
Fannie Zollicoffer Mallonee ’80<br />
Anne Williams Manchester ’55<br />
Marian Li Charitable Fund at Schwab Charitable<br />
Margaret A. Craw Fund, a donor advised fund of<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Laura Gredys Martin ’90<br />
Eleanor Gilmore Massie ’66<br />
Fionna J. Matheson ’98<br />
Barbara Offutt Mathieson ’70<br />
Mathieson Giving Fund, a donor advised fund of<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Louise Jenkins Maybank ’60<br />
Gay Reddig Mayl ’55<br />
Emily Dick McAlister ’78<br />
Anne Stupp McAlpin ’68<br />
Allison Jennings McCance ’64<br />
Amy Thompson McCandless ’68<br />
Harriotte Dodson McDannald ’65<br />
Carter Donnan McDowell ’57<br />
Margaret Hoy McFadden ’72<br />
Margaret S. McFaddin ’75<br />
Sarah Dean McGill ’66<br />
Cynthia A. McKay ’78<br />
Sherrie Snead McLeRoy ’74<br />
Elizabeth D. McMullen ’68<br />
Carson Freemon Meinen ’80<br />
Virginia Borah Meislahn ’62<br />
Susan Somerville Menson ’68<br />
Carolyn Foster Meredith ’61<br />
Jarrett Dudley Millard ’70<br />
Carol Vontz Miller ’68<br />
Warren Moore Miller ’72<br />
Elaine L. Mills ’74<br />
Katharine Crommelin Milton ’62<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Modzelewski<br />
Amy Andrews Monahan ’80<br />
Denise L. Montgomery ’75<br />
Dorothy Lear Mooney ’78<br />
Jane D. Mooney ’77<br />
Cecilia A. Moore ’88<br />
Kara D’Ambra Dickey Moore ’95<br />
Megan L. Morgan ’76<br />
Morgan Stanley Foundation<br />
Katharine Fisher Morland ’71<br />
Carter Heyward Morris ’73<br />
Christina Babcock Morris ’86<br />
Vaughan Inge Morrissette ’54<br />
Lisa Harvey Morton ’67<br />
Miriam Molander Moss ’62<br />
Mr. Alan F. Rothschild, Jr. through The Fort<br />
Trustee Fund, CFCV<br />
Catharine Adams Murphy ’72<br />
Christina Hoefer Myers ’75<br />
Nancie H. Entenmann Fund of the Greater<br />
Toledo Community Foundation<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Nancy Spencer Advised Fund, a donor-advised<br />
fund of The Winston-Salem Foundation<br />
Mary Johnson Nelson ’64<br />
Mellie Hickey Nelson ’67<br />
Network For Good<br />
Jan Armstrong Neuenschwander ’57<br />
Carol D. Newman ’71<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Newman, Jr.<br />
Barbara Ashton Nicol ’74<br />
Kimberly Knox Norman ’85<br />
Valerie Norris and Joel Green<br />
Norris-Green Charitable Fund at<br />
Schwab Charitable<br />
North Texas Community Foundation<br />
Margaret MacKenzie Nowacki ’63<br />
Beth Slayman Nubbe ’84<br />
Julie Brooks Nyquist ’90<br />
Grace Mary Garry Oates ’64<br />
Brittany Carlton O’Bannon ’08<br />
Janice P. O’Donnell ’75<br />
Barbara Falge Openshaw ’57<br />
Orange Tree Foundation<br />
Susan C. O’Toole ’73<br />
Elizabeth Farmer Owen ’62<br />
Wilma L. Packard ’70<br />
Anna Chao Pai ’57<br />
The Pam and Pat Arey Charitable Gift Fund of the<br />
T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving<br />
Clifton W. Pannell<br />
Mary Owens Parkinson ’61<br />
Dr. Lynn Pasquerella<br />
Sarah B. Patterson ’01<br />
Phoebe Brunner Peacock ’68<br />
Peggy Taliaferro Fund of the Baltimore<br />
Community Foundation<br />
Elaine Newton Peters ’57<br />
Almena Hill Pettit ’69<br />
Pettit Family Community Fund of the<br />
Community Foundation of North Florida<br />
Bonnie Blew Pierie ’67<br />
Claudia Forman Pleasants ’70<br />
Pleasants Family Fund of Foundation For<br />
The Carolinas<br />
Elizabeth Dykes Pope ’83<br />
Catherine Tift Porter ’44<br />
M. Anne Powell ’88<br />
Marsha Decker Powers ’75<br />
Barbara Mendelssohn Price ’78<br />
Prudential Foundation<br />
Gail Anderson Ramey ’64<br />
Milbrey Sebring Raney ’65<br />
Josephine England Redd ’64<br />
Bettie Katherine Arnold Reed ’64<br />
Diane McCabe Reid ’70<br />
Lucy B. Ricardo<br />
Rinehart Family Charitable Fund at<br />
Schwab Charitable<br />
Mary Reid Roach ’74<br />
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<br />
Nancie Howe Entenmann Roberts ’56<br />
Raina S. Robeva<br />
Lee Carroll Roebuck ’87<br />
Virginia Luscombe Rogers ’50<br />
Deborah Warren Rommel ’70<br />
Jennifer Bach Rosen ’88<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Rossi<br />
Katharine M. Roth ’88<br />
Jewett Winn Rothschild ’83<br />
Jill Steenhuis Ruffato ’80<br />
Adelaide M. Russo ’68<br />
Helen Jenkins Ryan ’68<br />
Margaret Christian Ryan ’74<br />
Christie Calder Salomon ’64<br />
Estate of Candace Greene Satterfield ’46*<br />
Catherine Scheer ’04<br />
Anne Parker Schmalz ’62<br />
Elizabeth Kopper Schollaert ’64<br />
Prudence Sandifer Scott ’59<br />
Katherine Caola Seiler ’07<br />
Mary Lou Morton Seilheimer ’63<br />
Seilheimer Foundation<br />
Elizabeth Hutchins Sharland ’61<br />
Kari Andersen Shipley ’76<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Shuford, Jr.<br />
Martha Bickham Singleton ’71<br />
Jennifer Slade Belovsky ’71<br />
Alix Sommer Smith ’71<br />
Frances Street Smith ’52<br />
Peggy Arduser Smith ’58<br />
Elizabeth Shelton Smolens ’75<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis S. Soliwoda<br />
Jane Hamill Sommer ’65<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Finis H. Southworth<br />
Cynthia Hubard Spangler ’63<br />
Nancy Salisbury Spencer ’56<br />
Katharine Osborne Spirtes ’75<br />
Amanda Birge Spivey ’61<br />
Starfish Charitable Foundation<br />
Starke Foundation<br />
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Steele, Jr.<br />
Melanie Bowen Steglich ’78<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Brad Steinle<br />
Margaret Jones Steuart ’54<br />
Lisa Claypool Stevenson ’89<br />
Mary Page Stewart ’78<br />
Stillfield Fund I at the Charlottesville Area<br />
Community Foundation<br />
Gracey Stoddard ’67<br />
Elizabeth Smith Stone ’58<br />
Phillip C. Stone<br />
Jesse Durham Strauss ’96<br />
Lynn Gullett Strazzini ’67<br />
Stupp Bros Bridge-Iron Co.<br />
Susan T. and Eric G. Friberg Fund of Coastal<br />
Community Foundation of SC<br />
Carey Cleveland Swan ’70<br />
Martha Madden Swanson ’66<br />
Mary Taylor Swing ’58<br />
Anne Allen Symonds ’62<br />
Rebecca Trulove Symons ’79<br />
T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving<br />
Joie Roderick Tankard ’90<br />
Caroline L. Taraschi ’87<br />
Tate Family Fund of Foundation For<br />
The Carolinas<br />
Maria Thacker Goethe ’02<br />
Kay M. Thomas ’96<br />
Alice Wood Thompson ’59<br />
Grace Quirk Thompson ’88<br />
Lida Matthews Tingley ’61<br />
Tom and Joan Tyree Memorial Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Terry Starke Tosh ’75<br />
Travelers Companies, Inc.<br />
Mary Montelle Tripp ’82<br />
Sandra Schwartz Tropper ’73<br />
Kathleen Stevenson Turner ’64<br />
Sidney P. Turner ’66<br />
Harriet Newman Twigg ’74<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Tyree<br />
Elizabeth Tyree-Taylor ’71<br />
Suzanne DuVivier Ullrich ’78<br />
Ann Martin Goldmann Uloth ’83<br />
Valerie Gordon-Johnson & Doug Johnson<br />
Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund of<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Vandegrift<br />
Vincent S. and Nancy P. Jones Advised Fund 2 at<br />
the Rochester Area Community Foundation<br />
Cynthia H. Volk ’83<br />
Victoria McClintock Wade ’95<br />
Virginia Joachim Wade ’63<br />
Margaret Walbridge<br />
Karen H. Waldron ’75<br />
Carolyn Peyton Walker ’64<br />
Edith Brainerd Walter ’42<br />
Dawne Cotton Ward ’81<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey V. Watts, Jr.<br />
Charlotte Heuer Watts ’57<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin W. Webster, Jr.<br />
Mara Wegerski ’03<br />
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* Deceased<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Meredith Leslie Welch ’65<br />
Elizabeth Kemper Wharton ’58<br />
Nancy C. White ’79<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Landon Whitmore<br />
Alysha Wiegand ’09<br />
Cassandra Whaling Wierman ’85<br />
Patricia Wilder ’63<br />
Charlotte Moore Williams ’67<br />
Mary Ann Hicklin Willingham ’56<br />
Katie T. Wilson ’08<br />
Patricia Layne Winks ’52<br />
Winks Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund of<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Betty Bentsen Winn ’53<br />
Mary Gordon Winn ’66<br />
Bet Bashinsky Wise ’75<br />
Molly Poole Wolfe ’65<br />
Nancy Hickox Wright ’68<br />
Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp ’68<br />
Mr. George Youmans<br />
Margaret Mapp Young ’67<br />
Letha Dameron Zackowski ’81<br />
DONOR SOCIETY<br />
The Donor Society recognizes and honors<br />
the importance of donors with annual gifts<br />
under $1,000.<br />
Anonymous (11)<br />
Anonymous ’60<br />
Anonymous Donors through Facebook (14)<br />
Margaret Dally Abate ’99<br />
Louise Brandes Abdullah ’54<br />
Angela Conklin Abell ’96<br />
Dorothy J. Abernathy ’11<br />
Joan Armstrong Abington ’90<br />
Jessica A. Abramson ’08<br />
Carolyn Sample Abshire ’51<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ackermann<br />
The Ackermann Foundation<br />
Ann Greer Adams ’56<br />
Catherine F. Adams ’76<br />
David P. Adams<br />
Phoebe DeFoe Adams ’52<br />
Priscilla Powell Adams ’78<br />
Sally Whittier Adams ’56<br />
Susan Finn Adams ’86<br />
Abigail Adams-Moffett ’06<br />
Pearl Riggan Adamson ’66<br />
Ann Massie Addison ’74<br />
Natalie Brown Adee ’96<br />
April D. Adelson ’86<br />
Aetna Foundation, Inc.<br />
Claire T. Affleck ’03<br />
Mary Frances Oakey Aiken ’71<br />
Deborah Butteri Akers ’77<br />
Erin A. Alberda ’01<br />
Anne Chapin Albert ’83<br />
Kristy Alderson ’73<br />
Harriet McNair Alexander ’86<br />
Alicia Allen ’97<br />
Aline Payne Allen ’59<br />
Ann Stevens Allen ’56<br />
Julia Hunt Allen ’63<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Kent Allen<br />
Susan Norton Allen ’72<br />
Taylor M. Allen ’20<br />
Alliance Data<br />
Christine Carl Allison ’99<br />
Renee and John Allison<br />
Katherine Rose Allison ’14<br />
Holly Pflug Allport ’84<br />
Jean Meyer Aloe ’63<br />
David Alter<br />
Bianca Lucia Alvarado Gavilanes ’17<br />
Loring Harris Amass ’70<br />
Beverley Sharp Amberg ’65<br />
Keith Amburgey<br />
American Express Company and AXP Political<br />
Action Committee (PAC)<br />
America’s Charities-AARP<br />
Jane Yardley Amos ’63<br />
Katherine Amsden ’53<br />
Alicia King Anderson ’97<br />
Cynthia Bekins Anderson ’73<br />
Judith Ruffin Anderson ’57<br />
Lisa Aumiller Anderson ’96<br />
Jean M. Andrews ’72<br />
Joelle M. Andrews ’06<br />
Catharine Hubbard Andry ’85<br />
Jessica Mercier Andryshak ’06<br />
Lea Osborne Angell ’63<br />
Ann R. Smith Charitable Fund at<br />
Schwab Charitable<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Annable<br />
Anne Sinsheimer Charitable Gift Fund at<br />
The Community Foundation San Luis<br />
Obispo County<br />
Annie E. Casey Foundation<br />
Christine Diver Ans ’88<br />
AON Corporation<br />
Margaret Arcadia ’96<br />
Deborah Pollock Arce ’73<br />
Louise Archer Slater ’71<br />
Toni Santangelo Archibald ’80<br />
Elizabeth Kurtz Argo ’67<br />
Leslie S. Ariail<br />
Joanna D. Arias ’75<br />
Heather Thomas Armbruster ’98<br />
Mr. Christopher F. Armstrong<br />
Laura Warren Armstrong ’93<br />
Lindsay S. Arnett ’12<br />
Julie O’Neil Arnheim ’61<br />
Emily Spivey Arnold ’15<br />
Leigh A. Arnold ’10<br />
Lindsay Kay Ellen Renee Arnold ’10<br />
Mary Callahan Arnold ’80<br />
Frazier Miller Aronhalt ’96<br />
Susan L. Aronhalt ’98<br />
Joyce Arsnow<br />
The Arthur J. Gallagher Foundation<br />
Lynn Settlemyer Arts ’68<br />
Laurel LeStrange Ashley ’91<br />
Elizabeth Boswell Athey ’65<br />
Megan Foran Atkins ’99<br />
Amanda Atkinson ’00<br />
Doyne M. Atkinson<br />
Ellewn Howard Attar ’83<br />
Amelia Dudman Atwill ’96<br />
Melinda Wick Aufmuth ’92<br />
Suzanne S. Augur<br />
Margaret H. Aurand ’64<br />
Diana Jordan Avery ’98<br />
Ayco Charitable Foundation<br />
Elizabeth Groves Aycock ’96<br />
Nursat I. Aygen ’76<br />
Cassandra Smith Babbitt ’78<br />
Michelle L. Badger ’06<br />
Linda and Wayne Badger<br />
Barbara Wesley Bagbey ’80<br />
Blyth Steere Bailey ’79<br />
Linda Wallace Bailey ’66<br />
Susan Lazarus Bailey ’85<br />
Susan Parr Bailey ’81<br />
Robyn Bailey Orchard ’86<br />
Abby Starke Baird ’65<br />
Eleanor G. Baird ’62<br />
Barbara Baisley ’92<br />
Felicia Nelson Baker ’81<br />
Olivia Chaplin Baker ’81<br />
Victoria J. Baker ’67<br />
William R. Baker<br />
Laura Sickman Baksa ’70<br />
Ann Works Balderston ’76<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Balding<br />
Kathryn Renaud Baldwin ’78<br />
Mary Dixson Baldwin ’67<br />
Elizabeth M. Baliem-Simmons<br />
Jennifer Jarvis Ballard ’93<br />
Kathleen Peeples Ballou ’55<br />
Bank of America Foundation, Inc.<br />
Patricia Carroll Bankenstein ’74<br />
Bettie Sheppard Banks ’54<br />
Jane Moore Banks ’59<br />
Barbara B. Roper Charitable Fund at<br />
Schwab Charitable<br />
Charlotte R. Barbour ’16<br />
Pamela Ythier Barkley ’87<br />
Richard Barkley<br />
Carol V. Barlow ’83<br />
Jane S. Barnes ’68<br />
Kristin D. Barnes ’08<br />
Lisa Thompson Barnes ’88<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Susan M. Barney ’98<br />
Cynthia Balch Barns ’52<br />
Carroll Randolph Barr ’67<br />
Kate Clay Barret ’66<br />
Bruce Barrett ’72<br />
Vicky A. Thoma Barrette ’65<br />
Catherine J. Barrier ’76<br />
Christina Chubb Barrille ’04<br />
Linda Susan Barrow ’82<br />
Kelsey R. Barta ’15<br />
Chantel N. Bartlett ’98<br />
Dede T. Bartlett<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Basco<br />
Sarah Embrey Bass ’70<br />
Sarah Young Bass ’95<br />
Dixie Boring Bassett ’68<br />
Andrea R. Bateman ’71<br />
Carey Bates ’91<br />
Natalie Batman ’08<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Battad<br />
Melissa Halstead Baugher ’86<br />
William Baumgarten<br />
Jill Goolsby Baumhover ’95<br />
Susan Dwelle Baxter ’64<br />
Robin L. Bayless ’80<br />
Myth Monnich Bayoud ’80<br />
Martha Isdale Beach ’54<br />
Hannah C. Beall ’17<br />
Mona Wilson Beard ’51<br />
Phyllis G. Becker ’74<br />
Beth Beckner-Mills ’69<br />
Jeanne Fenrick Bedell ’57<br />
Gabriella M. Bedsworth<br />
Page Breakell Beeler ’79<br />
Josie E. Beets ’00<br />
Robin E. Behm ’79<br />
Judith Howe Behn ’65<br />
Megan E. Behrle ’09<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Alex W. Bell<br />
Phyllis Schulman Bell ’76<br />
Sylviane P. Bellamy<br />
Frances Mantho Belliveau ’82<br />
Carol Covington Bellonby ’70<br />
Brianna Belter ’13<br />
Peter Benda<br />
Josephine Benedek<br />
Lea Sparks Bennett ’83<br />
Jean Spillane Benning ’90<br />
Polly Benson ’58<br />
Pamela Burwell Benton ’68<br />
Helen E. Berger ’88<br />
Leslie Malone Berger ’83<br />
Stephanie L. Berger ’91<br />
Leslie Bergman ’82<br />
Beryl Bergquist ’71<br />
Amanda Priddy Berkey ’90<br />
Lynne Miller Bernard ’76<br />
Susan Terjen Bernard ’63<br />
Laurel and Christopher Berry<br />
Laurel Sanders Berry ’08<br />
Mary Dance Berry ’08<br />
Sara Gump Berryman ’64<br />
Ana Simic Beskin ’96<br />
Justine E. Betzler<br />
Karen R. Bewick ’75<br />
Elizabeth Gilgan Bianco ’94<br />
Anne T. Biasiolli ’04<br />
Mary Biathrow<br />
Eleanor B. Bibb ’83<br />
Lisa Henderson Bice ’82<br />
Joan Moore Biddle ’64<br />
Danielle Erika Mary Bielenstein ’82<br />
Julia Corte Bierster ’84<br />
Sidney A. Bieser ’10<br />
Paul R. Bigelow<br />
Devon Vasconcellos Bijansky ’99<br />
Laura D. Billings ’96<br />
Marianne Pownall Billings ’74<br />
Katrina Ann Balding Bills ’97<br />
Janet Whitehurst Binder ’75<br />
Anne Carr Bingham ’67<br />
Edith Lasher Birch ’64<br />
Katie M. Bird ’05<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Richard E. Bird<br />
Sara Schradin Bischel ’63<br />
Nancy Schmitt Bishop ’66<br />
Mary Margaret Dixon Biss ’96<br />
Mary Clayton Blackwell ’67<br />
Regan J. Blackwood ’02<br />
Kendall T. Blake<br />
Jacqueline Israel Blakeslee ’68<br />
Danielle Schofield Blanchard ’99<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Blanchard, Jr.<br />
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Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Patricia H. Blanchard<br />
Lynn Carol Blau ’63<br />
Lisa Bleich<br />
Cynthia Craig Bliss ’66<br />
Joan Clinchy Blood ’65<br />
Victoria Vidal Blum ’85<br />
Daniel L. Boardman<br />
Boas Family Fund of the Community Foundation<br />
for Greater Atlanta<br />
Susan C. Bobb ’00<br />
Harriet McCormick Bobbitt ’63<br />
Patricia Ashby Boesch ’58<br />
JoAnn Bogolin ’89<br />
Sarah E. Bohn ’04<br />
Carol Lynn Searles Bohrer ’82<br />
Ici Ollison Bojarczyk ’89<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson M. Bolton<br />
Pauline Wells Bolton ’52<br />
Alicia Bounds Bomhardt ’89<br />
Martha Neill Boney ’72<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Bonham<br />
Robert J. Bonini<br />
Mr. and Mrs. R. Michael Bonnell<br />
Mary Ames Booker ’82<br />
Dorothy L. Boone<br />
Jody N. Booze-Daniels ’79<br />
Natasha H. Boraas ’10<br />
Mary Green Borg ’64<br />
Elizabeth Taylor Borntrager ’02<br />
Susan Desmet Bostic ’72<br />
Elizabeth Harder Botzis ’93<br />
Marisha G. Bourgeois ’99<br />
Elizabeth Babbitt Bowen ’90<br />
Glory McRae Bowen ’67<br />
Edith McRee Bowles ’74<br />
Kay Diane Moore Bowles ’57<br />
Deborah Ohler Bowman ’70<br />
Deborah Price Bowman ’82<br />
Elizabeth Williams Bowman ’72<br />
Joanna Wood Bowman ’06<br />
Laura T. Bowrey ’08<br />
Ellie Donahue Boyd ’08<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James N. Boyd<br />
Jessica Dennig Bozymowski ’99<br />
James Brachman<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Bradford III<br />
Sarah Bradford ’01<br />
Sarah Longstreth Bradley ’77<br />
Katherine Hollister Bradley-Black ’92<br />
Christina L. Brady ’99<br />
Sue P. Brady and Thomas G. Honaker III<br />
Barbara A. Brand ’71<br />
Dorothy Wetzig Brand ’71<br />
Jessica Brandrup ’98<br />
Ann Hallsey Brandt ’16<br />
Carolyn Weary Brandt ’82<br />
Elizabeth Sprague Brandt ’84<br />
Nelly Osinga Branson ’75<br />
Rachel A. Bratlie ’99<br />
Elizabeth A. Bray, Esq.<br />
Catherine Ehlen Breeden ’95<br />
Ann Powell Breen ’08<br />
Alison Brown Breene ’01<br />
Diane Ball Brendel ’78<br />
Susanne O’Neill Turner Brennan ’83<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Brewer<br />
Madeline A. Brewer ’10<br />
Martha J. Brewer ’69<br />
Allison Garrison Bridges ’10<br />
Nancy Arni Briggs ’64<br />
Kay A. Brimijoin<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Britton<br />
(Beatrice Totten Britton ’65)<br />
Anne E. Brodie<br />
Joan Breier Brodsky ’67<br />
Allison Egbert Brokaw ’78<br />
Margaretta Bredin Brokaw ’70<br />
Joan Eltonhead Bromley ’73<br />
Ashley Wilson Brook ’79<br />
Anne C. Brooke ’54<br />
Julia Skilinski Brooks ’93<br />
Rhoda Allen Brooks ’71<br />
Phuong Tran Broome ’96<br />
Anne Carter Brothers ’63<br />
Leslie Wilkinson Brotman ’78<br />
Brianna Boswell Brown ’82<br />
Carrie M. Brown and John Gregory Brown<br />
Courtney Totushek Brown ’97<br />
Ellen Apperson Brown ’72<br />
Ellen Hagan Brown ’81<br />
Ellen Moseley Brown ’71<br />
Emily McNally Brown ’72<br />
Grace Wallace Brown ’52<br />
Mary Perkins Traugott Brown ’45*<br />
Nancy Dixon Brown ’63<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brown<br />
Sharon Ingham Brown ’84<br />
Susan Glasgow Brown ’64<br />
Virginia Miller Brown ’97<br />
Wendy Norton Brown ’71<br />
Gay Elizabeth Kenney Browne ’82<br />
Amanda Cash Browning ’07<br />
Nancy Hagar Bruetsch ’72<br />
Mary Landon Smith Brugh ’57<br />
Patricia O’Malley Brunger ’75<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Brunson<br />
Margaret Hayes Brunstad ’72<br />
Cecilia A. Bryant ’68<br />
Sara H. Brydges ’67<br />
Ellen S. Buchwalter<br />
Marilyn Meyers Buckey ’68<br />
Nina Wilkerson Bugg ’60<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Clive H. Bullard<br />
Deborah Donigan Bullett ’81<br />
Bobby Stieh Bulls<br />
Nancy C. Bulls ’93<br />
Marie Ironmonger Bundy ’51<br />
Susan L. Bundy ’73<br />
Isabel Ware Burch ’60<br />
Sharon Fitzgerald Burchard ’63<br />
Sarah Kidd Burchett ’05<br />
Kiernan Burger<br />
Emily M. Burke ’06<br />
Joan Phelps Burkett ’56<br />
Julianne C. Burkhardt ’87<br />
Wynn Cole Burr ’96<br />
Henry Burr<br />
Rebekah Burr ’01<br />
Rebecca A. Burt ’76<br />
Amy E. Burton ’90<br />
Terese DeGrandi Busch ’76<br />
Debra Jackson Busker ’75<br />
Jenny Robinson Bussey ’80<br />
Kathryn M. Buster ’68<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Butcher<br />
Jill E. Butcher ’97<br />
Cornelia Radford Butler ’76<br />
Evelyn Day Butler ’66<br />
Helen Pruitt Butler ’84<br />
Kimberly Shrader Butterfield ’09<br />
Coleen Dee Butterick ’74<br />
Virginia Lee Butters ’66<br />
Linda Williams Buttrill ’70<br />
Virginia Claus Buyck ’83<br />
Laurel Bryant Byrd ’93<br />
Jeanette Rowe Cadwallender ’79<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David K. Cahoone<br />
Rebecca Atha Cain ’85<br />
Elaine C. Cale ’72<br />
Ruth Ellen Green Calhoun ’57<br />
Tysha N. Calhoun ’94<br />
Molly Hanley Callahan ’85<br />
Emily Virkus Calle ’98<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Callis, Jr.<br />
Laura Mixon Camacho ’83<br />
Anne Richards Camden ’69<br />
Angela Aiken Cameron ’01<br />
Virginia Shipe Cameron ’75<br />
Rose Thomas Camp ’74<br />
Amy Leigh Campbell ’97<br />
Benita B. Campbell<br />
Dana Varnado Campbell ’93<br />
Illona Petrovits Campbell ’74<br />
Jennifer V. Campbell ’85<br />
Jennifer Sirois Campbell ’05<br />
M. Lin Campbell ’66<br />
Mary Johnson Campbell ’58<br />
Melanie H. E. Campbell ’06<br />
Susan Graham Campbell ’81<br />
Paige Vaught Campion ’96<br />
Jacquelyn Loy Canaday ’93<br />
Anita Crossingham Cannon ’77<br />
Mary Noble Caperton ’54<br />
Chelsea Capizzi-Walsh ’08<br />
Susan M. Capozzoli ’80<br />
Jason Aaron Capps<br />
Lisa Carangelo ’80<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Betty Noland Caravati ’63<br />
Dr. Samuel B. Carleton<br />
(Elaine Kimball Carleton ’57*)<br />
Mary McKee Carmichael ’70<br />
Carolyn and Lemuel Hewes Account, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Alison E. Carr ’08<br />
Katherine M. Carr ’98<br />
Mary Miller Carroll ’52<br />
Victoria McCullough Carroll ’84<br />
Abigail Carter ’89 and Eric Rudenshiold<br />
Ann MacDonald Carter ’97<br />
Anne Babson Carter ’61<br />
Eleanor Jane Wells Carter ’83<br />
Emily Kathryn Carter ’01<br />
Jennie Frazier Carter ’09<br />
Jessica A. Carter ’04<br />
Louise Bouldin Carter ’90<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Macauley Carter, Jr.<br />
Sarah Ryder Carter ’02<br />
Ellen R. Carver ’85<br />
Kathy G. Carwile ’19<br />
Katherine Connors Cassada ’86<br />
Elizabeth Gantt Castles ’82<br />
Aracelie L. Castro ’99<br />
Anne Sniffen Cates ’71<br />
Francesca Angela Catucci ’03<br />
Margaret S. Caulk ’90<br />
Miriam Choi Cave ’06<br />
Elaine Horton Cavener ’65<br />
Center Stage Dance Studio, Inc.<br />
Sarah Chaffee Paris ’96<br />
Jennifer Burton Jahos Chaladoff ’86<br />
Marydee Wimbish Chalfant ’60<br />
Jean S. Chaloux ’72<br />
Jacqueline Razook Chamandy ’52<br />
Terra I. Chamberlain ’04<br />
Paige N. Chamblin ’18<br />
Candace Buker Chang ’70<br />
Stephen M. Chaplin<br />
Margaret Rand Chapman ’65<br />
Kenneth Chappelle<br />
Lynn Mather Charette ’86<br />
Charities Aid Foundation of America<br />
Wendie A. Charles ’11<br />
Charles Lee Smith, III Family Fund of Triangle<br />
Community Foundation<br />
Charles M. Caravati Foundation<br />
Charles S. and Beth D. Baldwin Advised Fund,<br />
a donor-advised fund of The<br />
Winston-Salem Foundation<br />
Charis Lease-Trevathan Chase ’06<br />
Danielle Briggs-Hansen Chase ’07<br />
Katharine Barnhardt Chase ’67 and<br />
Robert L. Chase<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John Chaussee<br />
Courtney Warrick Cherna ’84<br />
Cara C. Cherry ’06<br />
Wendy L. Cherry ’74<br />
Disa Johnson Cheston ’85<br />
Chevron Products Company<br />
Jane Cox Childress ’85<br />
Jennifer Roach Childs ’88<br />
Sharon Bradford Christhilf ’65<br />
Patricia F. Christian ’89<br />
Christine Gempp Love Foundation<br />
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Wallace G. Christner<br />
Adrienne Arnold Ciccarello ’04<br />
Melissa Cicotello ’99<br />
Sandra Ahern Cimons ’83<br />
Sharon Van Cleve Cipriano ’64<br />
Edith Knapp Clark ’58<br />
Eileen Stroud Clark ’65<br />
Laura Morrissette Clark ’85<br />
Lynn Adams Clark ’61<br />
Nancy Hamel Clark ’52<br />
Samantha A. Clark ’08<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Terrence T. Clark<br />
Temma Clark-Braverman ’10<br />
Cynthia R. Clarke ’71<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James N. Clarke<br />
Katherine Wood Clarke ’65<br />
Mary McGraw Clarke ’64<br />
Suzanne Elisabeth Stovall Clarke ’84<br />
Jonna Creaser Clarkson ’70<br />
Lucile McKee Clarkson ’69<br />
Anita Lippitt Clay ’44<br />
Jan Schnibbe Cleary ’75<br />
David J. Clement, USMC (ret)<br />
E. Anne Clement ’78<br />
Joan Dabney Clickner ’91<br />
Lindsey S. Cline ’06<br />
Barbara Darnall Clinton ’56<br />
Clorox Company<br />
Cailey N. Cobb ’20<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Cobb<br />
Elizabeth Anne Lux Cobb ’15<br />
Laurel Norris Coccio ’73<br />
Vereen Coen<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Coffey<br />
Sara J. Coffey ’06<br />
Jean Holmes Cole ’98<br />
Lucy Darby Cole ’78<br />
Joyce M. Coleman ’85<br />
Kimberly Earhart Coleman ’00<br />
Madeleine R. Coleman ’16<br />
Kerry Elizabeth Coleman-Proksch ’97<br />
Stephanie Alford Collett ’84<br />
Anne Collins ’96<br />
Cissel Gott Collins ’72<br />
Jennifer J. Collins ’06<br />
Karen R. Collins<br />
Susan Hayward Collins ’55<br />
Anne M. Colpitts ’11<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Colvin<br />
Verda Andrews Colvin ’87<br />
C. Victoria Coxe Commander ’64<br />
Helen Compton-Harris ’80<br />
Georgianna Conger Wolcott ’87<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Conley<br />
Anne White Connell ’54<br />
Catherine L. Connor ’77<br />
Marion Thorington Conover ’58<br />
Cynthia M. Conroy ’74<br />
Elizabeth Moore Conti ’78<br />
Ebony Scurry Contreras ’04<br />
Maureen C. Conway ’71<br />
Elizabeth Conyers ’92<br />
Hilary Cooper Cook ’05<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Cook<br />
Joan Kells Cook ’55<br />
Katherine Cook ’94<br />
Foy Roberson Cooley ’65<br />
Susan Stevens Cooley ’57<br />
Anne Helms Cooper ’71<br />
Catharine Spessard Cooper ’57<br />
Elizabeth Hunt Cooper ’98<br />
Gloria J. Cooper<br />
Jill Haden Cooper ’67<br />
Octavia Wood Cooper ’68<br />
Meredith Cope-Levy<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Kevin Coppersmith<br />
Madeleine Blanchard Corbo ’89<br />
Yuliya Rigg Cormier ’13<br />
Maria Corpora<br />
Caroline F. Corum ’88<br />
Elizabeth Meyer Costello ’74<br />
Rebecca Carter Cothran ’02<br />
Shannon Callison Cotsoradis ’95<br />
Cary Lamond Courier ’62<br />
Dorothy Courington ’72<br />
Kristin B. Cousins<br />
Evelyn Carter Cowles ’73<br />
Susan Swagler Cowles ’86<br />
Lenore L. Cox ’78<br />
Mary King Craddock ’68<br />
Rachel L. Craig ’14<br />
Steven and Janet Craig<br />
Susan M. Craig ’73<br />
Virginia S. Craig ’78<br />
Polly C. Crawford ’93<br />
Virginia Ramsey Crawford ’59<br />
Emily Gooch Crenshaw ’70<br />
Kelly Crist ’06<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Critz<br />
Susan Brush Croft ’68<br />
Sally L. Croker ’92<br />
Holly A. Cromwell ’78<br />
Margaret Reeder Crosbie ’64<br />
Holly Harrison Crosby ’79<br />
Martha Stewart Crosland ’71<br />
Katherine T. Clarke ’09<br />
Leona Chang Crozier ’56<br />
Crum Charitable Foundation<br />
Sherrill Milnor Crump ’70<br />
Ameka Reeves Cruz ’01<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Stacey Vilar Csaplar ’88<br />
Grace E. Culley ’17<br />
Lee B. Cullum ’60<br />
Emily Ward Culp ’64<br />
Electa Hoffman Culver ’68<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William K. Curling<br />
Bridget Bayliss Curren ’96<br />
Molly Currens ’89<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Currey<br />
Lindsey M. Custer ’00<br />
Cutler Charitable Account, a donor advised fund<br />
of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Robin R. Cutler ’66<br />
Caroline T. Czarra ’22<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Czarra<br />
Natalie Lane Czarra ’22<br />
Penelope Czarra ’75<br />
Charlotte G. Dabney<br />
Alexandra G. Dagher ’17<br />
Suzanne Gay Dailey ’83<br />
Beverley Stone Dale ’95<br />
Bergen Hall Daley ’95<br />
Mary T. Danford ’73<br />
Pamela Boyd Daniel ’68<br />
Roberta T. Daniel<br />
Daniel Kress and Patty Glick Fund of<br />
Vanguard Charitable<br />
Helen E. Danner<br />
Mary Landon Darden ’74<br />
Page Darney ’98<br />
Davenport & Company, LLC<br />
Andrew Martin Davey, MD<br />
Elizabeth Ripley Davey ’47<br />
Katherine Robison Davey ’83<br />
Lisanne Purvis Davidson ’78<br />
Nancy Daugherty Davidson ’82<br />
Holly Chaikowski Davis ’61<br />
Carolyn Foster Davis ’75<br />
Elizabeth Haeberle Davis ’01<br />
Gina Pollock Davis ’89<br />
Julia Brooke Davis ’81<br />
Mary Reynolds Davis ’84<br />
Michael R. Davis, Jr.<br />
Renata Leckszas Davis ’85<br />
Stephanie Pearson Davis ’95<br />
Terry Cerrina Davis ’86<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Day<br />
Constance Williams de Bordenave ’68<br />
Amanda de Coligny ’68<br />
Calvert G. de Coligny, Jr.<br />
Mary Donaldson De Figard ’68<br />
Judith Barthold De Simone ’66<br />
Jean Lindsay de Streel ’58<br />
Morgan N. Deal ’16<br />
Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel<br />
Jane Pinckney deButts ’57<br />
Emily Kitchel DeCamp ’83<br />
Jeanne Rovics Dees ’88<br />
Anne Elizabeth Deffenderfer ’06<br />
Kylene Smith DeFrate ’03<br />
Nancy Wingate DeLapp ’75<br />
Dianne C. Delledera ’80<br />
John and Patty Demere<br />
Victoria Hutcheson DeMichele ’91<br />
Margaret T. Dempsey ’84<br />
Debrah L. Denemark ’70<br />
Sarah Strapp Dennison ’10<br />
Emily Marie Dent ’12<br />
Hilda H. Dent ’76<br />
Kathryn N. Deriso-Schwartz ’88<br />
Rolfe Joyner DeShazor ’82<br />
Mary Dubuque Desloge ’75<br />
Susan C. Detweiler ’88<br />
Eva M. Devine ’81<br />
Linda C. DeVogt ’86<br />
Ms. Caroline Dewey<br />
Amanda DiamondRing ’98<br />
Julia P. Diaz ’11<br />
Adriana Beckman Diaz-Farias ’89<br />
Jennifer L. Dick ’07<br />
Rebecca Dick<br />
Jan M. Dickel ’71<br />
Eleanor L. Dickinson ’95<br />
Eleanor Griggs Diemar ’66<br />
Ann King Dietrich ’53<br />
Elizabeth and Luther Dietrich<br />
Natasha Ungerer Dillaman ’02<br />
Leigh Darrell Dillon ’06<br />
Martha Gamble Dillon ’86<br />
Ariana Wolynec-Werner DiMeo ’01<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
113
DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Frank DiMeo, Jr.<br />
Alice E. Dixon ’82<br />
Louisa S. Dixon ’75<br />
Katharine H. Dobie ’06<br />
Kaitlin Ann Marie Dobson ’15<br />
Alice V. Dodd ’65<br />
Beatrice A. Dodd ’58<br />
Vincent J. Doddy<br />
The Dodger Fund of the Baltimore<br />
Community Foundation<br />
Angelique Milone Dodson ’03<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Dodson<br />
Emily B. Dodson ’18<br />
Margaret Dodson<br />
Deborah Hubble Dolan ’77<br />
Lee Foley Dolan ’96<br />
Brooke Thomas Dold ’71<br />
Richard Dolen<br />
Dominion Resources, Inc.<br />
Elizabeth Kyle Donahue ’82<br />
Keir Henley Donaldson ’52<br />
Misty D. Donathan ’99<br />
Donna and Byron Rubin Living Trust Charitable<br />
Gift Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity<br />
Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Adelaide Eshbach Donnelly ’78<br />
Michele Dore ’74<br />
Sarah J. Dorminey ’99<br />
Joelle Jackson Doss ’98<br />
Carol Goodman Doty ’87<br />
Allene R. Doucette ’91<br />
Martha Shorter Lanier Dougherty ’85<br />
Virginia Stanley Douglas ’67<br />
Allison Vollmer Douglass ’94<br />
Tria Pell Dove ’64<br />
True Dow ’80<br />
Ethel Burwell Dowling ’82<br />
Barbara Bolling Downs ’64<br />
Joan Lamparter Downs ’58<br />
Caroline B. Dozier ’08<br />
Dr. Bettina P. Murray Charitable Fund at<br />
Schwab Charitable<br />
Elizabeth White Drbal ’77<br />
Ellen Clare Gillespie Dreyer ’83<br />
Lynne Higgins Dreyer ’86<br />
Lucy Elizabeth Drinkwater ’15<br />
Amy Ayers Peck Driscoll ’92<br />
Jennifer Toomey Driscoll ’92<br />
Judith Kingman Driskell ’58<br />
Susan Page Driver ’66<br />
Martha Shmidheiser DuBarry ’48<br />
Anne Merriman Duffy ’86<br />
Anne R. Duguid ’60<br />
Clark Woods Duke ’12<br />
Maria Shields Duke ’76<br />
Melanie C. Duke ’91<br />
Susan Hancock Duke ’73<br />
Penny Fisher Duncklee ’59<br />
Barbara Baur Dunlap ’68<br />
Alison Burnett Dunn ’98<br />
Augusta Harrison Dunstan ’88<br />
Leslie Hardy Dunville ’99<br />
Sonja Gruhl Dupourque ’90<br />
Helen Masters Durham ’81<br />
Annette C. Dusenbury ’97<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Owen G. Dwire<br />
Susan Sickels Dyer ’91<br />
Elizabeth Walker Dykes-Steib ’54<br />
Sherri Brockwell Dymon ’89<br />
Paula K. Eanes<br />
Marie Engel Earnhart ’82<br />
Mary W. Earnhart ’14<br />
Brentz Basten East ’05<br />
Melissa C. Eaton ’96<br />
Virginia Eldridge Eaton ’70<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Ecklund<br />
Kira Flores Ector ’86<br />
Donna H. Edgerton ’68<br />
Dawn Edmiston<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Edwards, Jr.<br />
Leslie A. Eglin ’84<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ehlen, Jr.<br />
Thomas A. Ehrgood, Jr.<br />
James R. Eisenmann<br />
Cynthia Seiler Eister ’76<br />
Sherine Mohamed S. El Banhawy ’97<br />
Amy Ghiz El-Aasser ’92<br />
Harriet Thayer Elder ’52<br />
Leslie Smith Elger ’63<br />
Patricia Littleton Eliades ’83<br />
Tarah J. Eliason ’12<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David S. Elkins<br />
Caroline Robinson Ellerbe ’56<br />
Henslee Rutledge Elliott ’06<br />
Jordyn L. Elliott ’17<br />
Elliott & Terrell Harrigan Fund of the<br />
Community Foundation for a<br />
Greater Richmond<br />
Mary-Jo S. Ellis ’85<br />
Richard A. Ellis<br />
Pamela Koehler Elmets ’80<br />
Hannah Davis Emig ’83<br />
Kathleen Brown Eney ’78<br />
Mathea Almen Engelke ’61<br />
Alan M. Engler<br />
Sarah Colhoun Engram ’79<br />
Environmental Chemical Corp (ECC)<br />
Catherine Erickson<br />
Katherine Taylor Erickson ’80<br />
Andrea Staton Eridani ’04<br />
Mary Jane Eriksen Ertman ’51<br />
Louise Wright Erwin ’79<br />
Katherine Rinehart Eskew ’98<br />
Maria Ward Estefania ’69<br />
Julia Johnson Evans ’73<br />
Rebecca Dane Evans ’78<br />
Stephany A. Evans ’10<br />
Stuart Bohannon Evans ’61<br />
Corlis F. Everett<br />
Melinda Brown Everett ’68<br />
Kathryn A. Ewald ’79<br />
Louanne Pahel Ewald ’86<br />
Chloe Briscoe Ewalt ’73<br />
ExxonMobile Foundation<br />
Simone Margaret Faas ’14<br />
Genevieve and Tim Fadool<br />
Regina A. Fagan ’87<br />
Roberta J. Fagan ’91<br />
Jean Ridler Fahrenbach ’45<br />
FannieMae Foundation<br />
Tabb Thornton Farinholt ’59<br />
Mary Anne Calhoun Farmer ’66<br />
Suzanne Gipson Farnham ’57<br />
Sue Wakeman Farquhar ’63<br />
Anne Marie Farrell ’87<br />
Sarah Engleby Farrell ’86<br />
Kory Aldrian Faulkner ’92<br />
Ashley D. Federico ’16<br />
Nancy Banfield Feher ’64<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Fein<br />
Phyllis Feddeler Fejzuli ’83<br />
Christina Stoltz Feldkamp ’89<br />
Margaret Mather Feldmeier ’71<br />
Laura Penick Felt ’66<br />
Mary Jane Roos Fenn ’54<br />
Cassandra C. Fenton ’18<br />
Carol H. Ferguson ’12<br />
Frances McClung Ferguson ’80<br />
Jennifer Stockwell Ferguson ’73<br />
Laura M. Ferrazzano ’88<br />
Alice Mighell Foster Ficken ’65<br />
Carolyn Dennis Fielding ’58<br />
Nicole J. M. File ’95<br />
Robyn Peckol Filimaua ’96<br />
Shelbie B. Filson ’91<br />
Linda S. Fink<br />
Gretchen Smith Finley ’93<br />
Jeremy C. Finley<br />
June Eager Finney ’49*<br />
Elaine Barksdale Finucane ’92<br />
Kirkland Wohlrab Fiorella ’04<br />
Leslie Hertz Firestone ’82<br />
Elizabeth Fisch<br />
Autum MatysekSnyder Fish ’04<br />
Robin Bettger Fishburne ’96<br />
Grace Jones Fishel ’52<br />
Libby Glenn Fisher ’83<br />
Elizabeth Weil Fisher ’47<br />
Frances Butt Fisher ’66<br />
Katherine Louise Fisher ’17<br />
Kate Steptoe Fisher ’96<br />
Susan Croker Fisher ’84<br />
Linda A. Fite ’67<br />
Lauren E. Fithian ’14<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Fitton<br />
Charlotte Marie Prassel FitzGerald ’82<br />
Emily E. FitzHugh ’61<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
114
DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Carolyn Bloxsom Fitzpatrick ’93<br />
Tranum Fitzpatrick, IV<br />
Stephanie Stitt Fitzpatrick ’81<br />
Heather Willson Flaherty ’84<br />
Jacqueline Weiner Flaherty ’98<br />
Mary-Linda Morris Flasche ’94<br />
Carey Johnson Fleming ’78<br />
Marion Lucas Fleming ’61<br />
Catherine Watjen Flemings ’59<br />
Jasper E. Fletcher<br />
Kathryn D. Fletcher<br />
Lucile Redmond Flournoy ’82<br />
Mary Jane Bradley Flowers ’96<br />
Renee Rose Flowers ’93<br />
Ann McCullough Floyd ’58<br />
Carrra Floyd<br />
Susan Seitz Floyd ’02<br />
Jennie Lyons Fogarty ’68<br />
Carol Remington Foglesong ’71<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll G. Foley<br />
Stephanie Pappanikou Foley ’97<br />
Blair Cooper Foltz ’05<br />
Anne Q. Fomon ’77<br />
Lisa C. Fondeur ’85<br />
Vida Fonseca ’84<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Foraker<br />
Patricia Lynas Ford ’51<br />
Hooshang Foroudastan<br />
Deborah Blair Forrey ’84<br />
Chloe Fort ’62<br />
Elsa Jones Forter ’70<br />
Thomasin A. Foshay ’93<br />
Dabney Bragg Foshee ’77<br />
Elizabeth A. Foster ’12<br />
Joanne O’Malley Foster ’52<br />
Sally Bianchi Foster ’50<br />
Virginia Watts Fournier ’44<br />
Barbara Childrey Fowler ’61<br />
Nicole Stewart Fowler ’95<br />
Anne Gwinn Fox ’57<br />
May Humphreys Fox ’70<br />
Roxanne R. Fox ’01<br />
Theresa Walters Fox ’96<br />
Alexandria S. Francis ’74<br />
Eugenia Francis<br />
Kimberly Howell Franklin ’83<br />
Linda L. Frazier-Snelling ’75<br />
Catherine Gornto Freeman ’92<br />
Denton B. Freeman ’88<br />
Monica G. Freeman ’73<br />
Nancy Powell French ’62<br />
Rebecca Nelson Freudigman ’94<br />
Kristen N. Frey ’16<br />
Ralene Ann Friend and John P. Prieskorn<br />
Jill C. Frier ’06<br />
Mary Stockburger Fritzges ’88<br />
Caroline Bailey Fritzinger ’50<br />
Deborah A. Fritzler<br />
Betty Works Fuller ’72<br />
Dorothea M. Fuller ’53<br />
Nancy Bade Fuller ’80<br />
Patricia I. Fuller ’71<br />
Penn Willets Fullerton ’66<br />
Allison N. Funkhouser ’03<br />
Margaret Lewis Furse ’50<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fuselier<br />
Ria Fyffe-Freil ’11<br />
Mary South Gaab ’79<br />
Carolyn Gabel-Brett ’63<br />
Chesley Phillips Gaddis ’03<br />
Rebecca L. Gagne ’16<br />
Anne Crow Galanides ’91<br />
Jaimie DelMonte Galbreath ’92<br />
Susan Soriero Galbreath ’67<br />
Sharon Mendelson Gallery ’75<br />
Carol Provence Gallivan ’73<br />
Fielding Clark Gallivan ’70<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Gallivan ( Joan Fisch<br />
Gallivan ’56), Gallivan Family Advised<br />
Fund of The Community Foundation of<br />
Middle Tennessee<br />
Marianne Schultz Galt ’68<br />
Betsie Meric Gambel ’73<br />
Gambel Communications, LLC<br />
Ann Mountcastle Gamble ’51*<br />
Lynn Crosby Gammill ’58<br />
Charles R. Gamper, Jr.<br />
(Maria Rixey Gamper ’78*)<br />
Mary Goodwin Gamper ’78<br />
Kristin Palbicke Garces de Marcilla ’06<br />
Jane Wheeler Garcia ’59<br />
Stephanie J. Garcia ’97<br />
Chandra D. Garcia-Kitch ’94<br />
Dolly Garcia-Simonet ’90<br />
Bridget Wray Gardner ’79<br />
Lisa Wallen Gardner ’89<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ray L. Garland<br />
Carolyn Garneau<br />
Elza Long Garnett ’72<br />
Teresa A. Garrett<br />
Mary Moore Garrison ’78<br />
Virginia Carson Garver ’41<br />
Virginia Woodward Gast ’73<br />
Gay Owens Gates ’77<br />
Patricia Frawley Gates ’59<br />
Dawn M. Gatewood<br />
Laura Powell Gatling ’96<br />
Katrina Evans Gatti ’88<br />
Kelly Turney Gatzke ’99<br />
Nicole J. Gauthier ’91<br />
Jill E. Gavitt ’97<br />
Nancy E. Gavitt<br />
Anne Pinckney Gay ’63<br />
Karen Greer Gay ’74<br />
Mary B. Gay ’72<br />
GE Foundation<br />
Constance A. Gehrman ’91<br />
Heather Minor Gelormine ’02<br />
The Generosity Trust<br />
Victoria Bradley Gentry ’12<br />
Genworth Foundation<br />
Georgia Power Company<br />
Allison A. Gerber ’98<br />
Edward R. Gerber<br />
Lucy Martin Gianino ’60<br />
Ann Major Gibb ’73<br />
Robert C. Gibbons<br />
Dorothy Gibbs<br />
Margaret Works Gibbs ’51<br />
Susan Roessel Gibson ’69<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Joe H. Gieck<br />
Melissa J. Giggenbach ’96<br />
Nancy Hawbaker Gilbert ’58<br />
Penelope Walsh Gilbert ’72<br />
Anne Kilby Gilhuly ’55<br />
Elizabeth Marie Gilkey ’11<br />
Robert M. Gill<br />
Elisabeth Elmore Gilleland ’50<br />
Katherine McCartney Gilliam ’97<br />
Mary McGuire Gilliam ’47<br />
Cheryl Bishop Gilman ’90<br />
Weezie Blakeslee Gilpin ’73<br />
Edith Dobyns Gilson<br />
Tracy Worthington Ginn ’89<br />
Ruth Rominski Girlando ’73<br />
Patricia Pauling Gissendanner ’86<br />
Caitlyn Gladstone-Mueller ’09<br />
Ashley Wheeler Glass ’96<br />
Kathleen Obenchain Glass ’68<br />
Courtney Yerdon Gleason ’03<br />
Stephanie Gleason ’04<br />
Mary Elizabeth Ryan Glenn ’78<br />
Gwen Maureen Fisher Glew ’91<br />
Patricia S. Glick ’86<br />
Susan Hill Glick ’68<br />
Global Impact<br />
Elizabeth F. Glotzbach<br />
Laura Hand Glover ’86<br />
Suzanne Wright Godfrey ’75<br />
Karen Dennehy Godsey ’05<br />
Elizabeth Freeman Goetz ’78<br />
Judith Kobliska Goetz ’91<br />
Michael Goldman<br />
Elizabeth F. Goldring ’05<br />
Kana Roess Goldsmith ’91<br />
Laura Radford Goley ’52<br />
Rebecca Frost Good ’77<br />
Lucy Regester Goode ’51<br />
Janice van den Heuvel Goodman ’86<br />
Alyson Jane Carey Goods ’86<br />
Google, Inc<br />
Helen Milner Gordon ’77<br />
Alicia Gorman ’06<br />
Cheryl L. Gorman ’84<br />
Mary Murchison Gornto ’69<br />
Anne Evans Gorry ’64<br />
Mary A. Gosser-Esquilín<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Jane E. Gott ’70<br />
Jenness S. Gough ’13<br />
Claire Christensen Goves ’96<br />
Devon Grace<br />
Grace Wallace Brown Charity Fund of<br />
Vanguard Charitable<br />
Constance Quereau Graf ’67<br />
Anna Nicolaisen Graham ’04<br />
Dale Shelly Graham ’72<br />
Kathryn Keys Graham ’72<br />
Lauren Michelle Perhala Gramlich ’12<br />
Sara E. Granath ’68<br />
Mercedes Gravatt Grandin ’72<br />
Jo Gulick Grant ’50<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Grant<br />
Priscilla R. Grant ’83<br />
Jessica D. Grass ’97<br />
Anne Lee Gravely ’62<br />
Frances C. Gravely ’70<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Greg G. Gray<br />
Jane Powell Gray ’72<br />
Lea M. Gray ’15<br />
Nancy T. Gray and Jean H. Stewart<br />
Rachel Cooper Gray ’96<br />
Beth Hodgkins Green ’89<br />
Clara B. Green ’89<br />
Elizabeth Duggins Green ’86<br />
Elizabeth Miller Green ’68<br />
Holly M. Green ’99<br />
Mary Polk Green ’82<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Green<br />
Virginia Chamblin Greene ’55<br />
Susan E. Greenwald ’71<br />
Kelly Bowman Greenwood ’98<br />
Jennifer A. Gregg ’91<br />
Catharine Toomey Gregorie ’84<br />
Elizabeth M. Gregory ’02<br />
Gail Harrison Gregson ’66<br />
Marian Finney Grenn ’82<br />
Mary E. Gress ’68<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Grey<br />
Maryanne F. Grey ’12<br />
Ann Crowe Griffin ’66<br />
Annabeth Griffin ’18<br />
Lura Litton Griffin ’78<br />
M. Keating Griffiss ’60<br />
Leza M. Griffith ’89<br />
Martha Gose Griffith ’80<br />
Cecelia Williamson Grinstead ’68<br />
Dawn Everett Grobe ’98<br />
Alexandra F. Grobman ’12<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Grobman<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Groesch<br />
Pamela Webster Grogg ’13<br />
Rachel Giles Gronsky ’82<br />
Laura C. Groppe ’85<br />
Marie Pickering Grose ’61<br />
Evangeline Fisher Grossman ’89<br />
Alice C. Grover<br />
Jimmie Groves<br />
Isabelle Viguerie Gsell ’86<br />
Lydia M. Gullicksen ’18<br />
Megan Tarnowski Gundogdu ’02<br />
Roshani M. Gunewardene ’85<br />
Camelia Washington Gunn ’89<br />
Dayna Gunn Gunn ’04<br />
Jennifer Milby Gutierrez ’08<br />
Sheila Miller Guttenberg ’95<br />
Lottie Lipscomb Guttry ’56<br />
Percy Clarke Gwinn ’68<br />
Paul Gyaakye<br />
Mary Koonz Gynn ’56<br />
Elizabeth Bennett Haga ’88<br />
Margaret C. Hager<br />
The Rev. and Mrs. Donald F. Hague<br />
Nancy H. Haight ’75<br />
L. Pryor Hale ’65<br />
Ashlee C. Hall<br />
Bettina Batterson Hall ’65<br />
Kate Hall ’97<br />
Kelly E. Hall ’95<br />
Marion Dean Hall ’63<br />
Carolyn Hallahan Salamon ’80<br />
Angie Vaughan Halliday ’51<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Halliday, Jr.<br />
Mary Shaw Halsey Marks ’74<br />
Brett M. Haltiwanger ’92<br />
Jennie Bateson Hamby ’76<br />
Doreen Booth Hamilton ’54<br />
Elizabeth Taylor Hamilton ’69<br />
Jeanne Bounds Hamilton ’61<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Hammock<br />
Mary M. Hammock ’08<br />
Georgie Hampshire ’66<br />
Nadian Finch Hampton ’66<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas P. Hamshaw<br />
Elizabeth Foothorap Hancock ’71<br />
Elizabeth Wood Hancock ’63<br />
Juliet Young Hancock ’65<br />
Marilyn F. Hand<br />
Jennifer Smith Hanes ’74<br />
Richard P. Hankins, Jr.<br />
Stacy Gilmore Hanling ’90<br />
Elizabeth Becton Hannah ’84<br />
Elizabeth J. Hannon ’12<br />
Laura E. Hanold ’10<br />
Wendy B. Hansbrough<br />
Anne Edmunds Hansen ’82<br />
Meredith Shaw Hansen ’04<br />
Brendy Reiter Hantzes ’81<br />
Leannan Harcourt-Brooke<br />
Louise Towers Hardage ’73<br />
Elisabeth Sartor Harden ’68<br />
Margaret May Harden ’73<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Harden<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Paul X. Harder<br />
Jean Mann Hardesty ’72<br />
Carolyn Gough Harding ’60<br />
Lindsay Perkins Hargrave ’00<br />
Heather Riegel Harper ’83<br />
Sandra Elder Harper ’58<br />
Sarah Jennings Harper ’11<br />
Margaret Thouron Harrell ’64<br />
Terrell Luck Harrigan ’81<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip R. Harrill ’66<br />
Christian Maxwell Harris ’03<br />
Jeannine Davis Harris ’80<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Harris<br />
Jennica A. Harris ’08<br />
Mary C. Harris ’99<br />
Mary L. Harris ’79<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Harris, Jr.<br />
Dr. and Mrs. William O. Harris, III<br />
Erin Packard Harrison ’01<br />
Sarah Smiley Harrison ’09<br />
Andrea Stassi Hart ’04<br />
Penelope Parker Hartline ’84<br />
Victoria Chappell Harvey ’06<br />
Donna Hoogland Harwood ’99<br />
Victoria Bergs Hasty ’12<br />
Pamela Willett Hauck ’80<br />
Anne Booth Hauser ’64<br />
Meghan M. Hauser ’03<br />
Alexandra Hiniker Hausler ’09<br />
Kathryn L. Haw ’92<br />
Emily B. Hawk ’18<br />
Penny Oliver Hawkins ’68<br />
Elizabeth Dunck Hayes ’95<br />
Elizabeth H. Hayes<br />
Louise L. Hayman ’70<br />
Caroline Chappell Hazarian ’09<br />
Camilla Reid Hazlehurst ’68<br />
Kelly Gardner Headd ’93<br />
Elizabeth Sutton Healy ’65<br />
Mary Groetzinger Heard ’63<br />
Anna L. Hearn<br />
Campbell Hearn<br />
Ramona Achterberg Heers ’01<br />
Lisa Heisterkamp Davis ’80<br />
Mary E. Heller ’72<br />
Robin Rodger Heller ’76<br />
Elizabeth Biggar Hellmuth ’74<br />
Susan Calhoun Heminway ’58*<br />
Maria Wiglesworth Hemmings ’67<br />
Ann Stewart Matthews Hemphill ’68<br />
Susan Hemphill<br />
Katrina Groat Henchman ’61<br />
Anne Johnston Henderson ’62<br />
Janet Maynard Henderson ’60<br />
Rickey L. Hendricks ’68<br />
Shirley Pinson Hendricks ’03<br />
Denny Dolan Henkel ’56<br />
Erin Gibbs Henrichs ’05<br />
Marnie Tokaruk Henry ’98<br />
Catherine Goodhart Henson ’77<br />
Gillian M. Heptinstall ’73<br />
Anna Fines Herbert ’03<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Sarah Martin Herguner ’81<br />
Sharon McKinney Herman ’85<br />
Carlisle Adams Hernandez ’10<br />
Heather Theis Hernandez ’95<br />
Ann Banks Herrod ’68<br />
Hershey Foods Corporation Fund<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hershman, Jr.<br />
Kristin E. Herzog ’70<br />
Carolyn Mapp Hewes ’69<br />
Elizabeth Gurley Hewson ’46*<br />
Susanna Broaddus Hickman ’88<br />
Trienel Ahearn Hickman ’92<br />
Carolyn Elizabeth Hicks ’12<br />
Karla Kennedy Hicks ’85<br />
Paula D. Higginbotham ’02<br />
Mary J. Higgins<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Hildebrandt<br />
Brandi Whitley Hilder ’99<br />
Victoria Pitts Hildreth ’68<br />
Debra Bogdan Hill ’73<br />
Elizabeth B. Hill ’67<br />
Eve L. Hill ’86<br />
Katherine P. Hill<br />
Mary A. Hill ’00<br />
Preston Hodges Hill ’49<br />
Theodora G. Hill ’60<br />
H. Therese Robinson Hillyer ’83<br />
Cynthia Hague Hineline ’98<br />
Abigail Phillips Hinga ’96<br />
Cameron Cox Hirtz ’88<br />
Mr. Charles R. Hitchins<br />
Nancy Collier Hitchins ’65<br />
Katherine Cole Hite ’88<br />
Lisa C. Hite ’79<br />
Melissa Schoen Hitt ’85<br />
Dorothy Duncan Hodges ’57<br />
Elizabeth Carper Hoffman ’54<br />
Katherine Cooper Hoffman ’91<br />
Louise Chapman Hoffman ’61<br />
Sally Thomas Hoffman ’66<br />
Virginia Faris Hoffman ’80<br />
Katherine M. Hoffner ’84<br />
Ms. Deborah K. Hogan<br />
Meaghan K. Hogan ’14<br />
Jennifer Frost Holden ’86<br />
Ethel A, Holladay ’83<br />
Katherine Judd Holland<br />
Lucie Stevens Holland ’82<br />
Harriet Broughton Holliday ’73<br />
Paula Hollingsworth-Thomas ’74<br />
Elsbet Smith Hollywood ’04<br />
Constance Grace Holman ’96<br />
Rosalie Gambrill Holman ’85<br />
Bridget O’Reilly Holmes ’83<br />
Sharon Holt and Michael Zuckerman<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney G. Holthaus, Jr.<br />
Jessica L. Holzer ’70<br />
Zeda Elizabeth Homoki-Titus ’94<br />
Maria Garnett Hood ’61<br />
Johana Kelleher Hoofnagle ’93<br />
Kristen B. Hooper ’93<br />
Betsy Benoit Hoover ’65<br />
Dianne Powell Hope ’76<br />
Carter Hunter Hopkins ’68<br />
Cynthia Heye Hopkins ’72<br />
Deborah Ziegler Hopkins ’73<br />
Joanne E. Hopkins ’98<br />
Margaret Ellisor Hopkins ’76<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Horbatt<br />
Laura Lechler Hornef ’96<br />
Leslie A. Hornor ’83<br />
Elizabeth Mason Horsley ’90<br />
Julie M. Horton ’20<br />
Marshá Taylor Horton ’76<br />
Elizabeth B. Hoskinson ’82<br />
Samira Hossain ’05<br />
Hossein and Haideh Partovi Gift Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Sue B. Hostetler<br />
Karen T. Hott ’91<br />
Laura Swope Hottel ’95<br />
Elizabeth Meade Howard ’60<br />
Elizabeth Traylor Howard ’96<br />
Ruth Faulkner Howe ’48<br />
Mary Costello Howell ’76<br />
Samuel Howell<br />
Sarah Butcher Howell ’95<br />
Mary L. Hubbard ’84<br />
Sarah McCrady Hubbard ’65<br />
Susan Taylor Hubbard ’51<br />
Heidi Wood Huddleston ’60<br />
Nancy Kaufmann Hudec ’72<br />
Laura Thomas Hudson ’95<br />
Susan M. Hudson ’78<br />
Alexandra Hanson Huebner ’92<br />
Martha Bugg Hughes ’72<br />
Mary Farmer Hughes ’00<br />
Pamela C. Hughes ’74<br />
Dayna Avery Hulme ’86<br />
The Hulme Family Foundation<br />
The Humana Foundation, Inc.<br />
Arthur F. Humphrey III<br />
Cissy A. Humphrey ’76<br />
Jacqueline Mabie Humphrey ’60<br />
Rebecca Penny Humphrey ’08<br />
Marion McKee Humphreys ’73<br />
Christine Patten Hundertpfund ’95<br />
Carol Hays Hunley ’81<br />
Barbara Plamp Hunt ’55<br />
Conover Hunt ’68<br />
LuAnn Haag Hunt ’90<br />
Susan Thorndike Hunt ’64<br />
Amy Schroeder Hunter ’95<br />
Louise Lambert Hunter ’77<br />
Steve Huppert<br />
Courtney L. Hurt ’10<br />
Katherine Hoelz Hurt ’11<br />
Kerry Pollock Huskey ’93<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Huth<br />
Alice Wright Hyde ’65<br />
Elizabeth Richmond Hyder ’84<br />
Renee Hylton<br />
Kathleen Meredith Iacobelli ’88<br />
iGive Donors<br />
Ruth Schmidt Igoe ’66<br />
Anna May A. Imbrie ’14<br />
Carolyn Imperato ’93<br />
Inasmuch Foundation<br />
Sarah Paradise Ingber ’68<br />
Lynn Rosemarie Hanna Ingram ’82<br />
Paul Irwin<br />
Isabel Ware Burch Fund, a donor advised fund of<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Sallie D. Iselin<br />
Kim E. Izquierdo ’98<br />
J. M. Huber Corporation<br />
Karen Jackson<br />
Kathleen Kavanaugh Jackson ’89<br />
Nancy Ord Jackson ’53<br />
Alice Preston Jacobs ’68<br />
Andrea Hidalgo Jacobs ’01<br />
Juliet Jacobsen Kastorff ’84<br />
Julie Lindauer Jacobson ’88<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Evan W. Jahos<br />
Maia Free Jalenak ’88<br />
Virginia Moncure Jamerson ’08<br />
Caroline Miller James ’95<br />
Catherine Blaik James ’94<br />
Deanne Dawson James ’86<br />
Elisabeth Widdifield McClung James ’97<br />
Jane Knutson James ’73<br />
Murray Armstrong James ’48<br />
Rebecca Garrett Jamison ’80<br />
Susie Venable Jamison ’61<br />
Jane Frierson Charitable Giving Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Elizabeth Farmer Jarvis ’76<br />
Margaret Enochs Jarvis ’83<br />
Michelle Francesca J. Jay<br />
Jay and Jennifer Mills Fund at the Community<br />
Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, Inc.<br />
The Jean M. and Benjamin A. Hardesty Fund of<br />
the Ayco Charitable Foundation<br />
Jeff and Julie Harris Family Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Kathryn McDonald Jenevein ’77<br />
Susan Jester Jenkins ’67<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Russell R. Jensen<br />
Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven, Inc.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Joerger<br />
Verena M. Joerger ’15<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Dearing Ward Johns ’63<br />
Abigail R. Johnson ’12<br />
Cynthia Jill Johnson ’72<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Johnson<br />
Jennifer Brown Johnson ’02<br />
Margaret K. Johnson ’13<br />
Sallie Small Johnson ’61<br />
Vicky Toof Johnson ’54<br />
Nicole Johnson-Kaler ’96<br />
Jane Johnston<br />
Katherine L. Johnston ’97<br />
Laura Rihl Joiner ’96<br />
Deborah L. Jones ’70<br />
Elizabeth Brooks Jones ’75<br />
Emery Jones ’86<br />
Evelyn Smith Jones ’96<br />
H. Daniel Jones III<br />
Jasmine M.D. Jones ’10<br />
Judith Cowen Jones ’60<br />
Louise Coleman Jones ’51<br />
Mark W. Jones<br />
Kimberly Jones<br />
Sarah C. Jones ’11<br />
Victoria S. Jones ’67<br />
Deborah F. Jordan<br />
Clark Jordan ’96<br />
Charlotte Lykes Jorgensen ’72<br />
Phyllis A. Joyner ’55<br />
JPMorgan Chase & Co.<br />
Diane Jumet<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Kable<br />
Serena Basten Kachinsky ’02<br />
Monika Kaiser ’82 and Richard Baray<br />
Gwen Speel Kaplan ’60<br />
Katherine Knopf Kaplan ’65<br />
Courtney Gross Kappler ’99<br />
Susan Ray Karlson ’76<br />
Katherine Seder Karon ’97<br />
Aimee B. Kass ’79<br />
Anne-Claire Wackenhut Kasten ’98<br />
Erin Elizabeth Katz ’91<br />
Lizbeth L. Kauffman ’82<br />
Kathleen A. Kavanagh ’74<br />
Caitlin A. Keany ’08<br />
Beth Anderson Kearns ’85<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Keating, Jr.<br />
Mary Hope Keating ’81<br />
Alice Mitchell Keister ’70<br />
Briggett J. Keith ’72<br />
Janet Sheppard Kelleher ’75<br />
Nicole Kelleher ’97<br />
Barbara Tillman Kelley ’67<br />
Frances Lane Smith Kelley ’82<br />
Paula Brown Kelley ’78<br />
Adele Laslie Kellman ’67<br />
Daniel H. Kellum<br />
Barbara LaLance Kelly ’70<br />
Catherine Grier Kelly ’75<br />
E. Connor Kelly ’79<br />
Lawson Calhoun Kelly ’70<br />
Stephen Kelly<br />
Jody L. Kelso<br />
Anna Platt Kemper ’64*<br />
Keith Kendrick<br />
Sarah Houston Kenning ’01<br />
Stephanie Maxson Kenyon ’77<br />
Katie Keogh ’88<br />
Mary Stevenson Fontaine Keown ’63<br />
Kathryn Waldrop Kerkering ’70<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald I. Kerley<br />
(Donna C. Kerley ’10)<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Kerlin<br />
Karen D. Kerlin ’83<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kerschl<br />
Nancy D. Kershner ’90 and William R. Kershner<br />
Debra J. Kertzman ’81<br />
Dianne Wood Keyser ’73<br />
Alexandria Hiribarne Khalsa ’96<br />
Diana Kidane-Mariam ’76<br />
Suzanne Collins Kilborn ’78<br />
Elizabeth J. Kilgallin ’14<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Kilgore<br />
Katherine Ashley Kilgore ’12<br />
Christina Cotter Kilhefner ’98<br />
Kimberly-Clark Foundation<br />
Elizabeth Scott Kimmel ’75<br />
Brenda Darden Kincaid ’68<br />
Caroline Hamilton King ’11<br />
Cary Davis King ’73<br />
Elizabeth Gilkeson King ’93<br />
Elizabeth Markgraf King ’50<br />
Holly Caswell King ’92 and David King<br />
Sarah Strother King ’64<br />
Nancy E. Kirbo-Hollingworth ’05<br />
Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride ’56<br />
Bessie H. and James R. Kirkwood<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Katherine A. Kirkwood ’04<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Hal A. Kirven<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Kitchen, Jr.<br />
Virginia MacKethan Kitchin ’59<br />
Page M. Kjellstrom ’70<br />
Deborah Davison Klein ’78<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Klein<br />
Lisa Hagan Kliefoth ’79<br />
Michelle Scherrer Klimt ’84<br />
Alicia Zuke Kline ’82<br />
Jean Reeve Klinges ’53<br />
Deborah Dalton Knapp ’78<br />
Sarah Johnston Knoblauch ’74<br />
Rebecca Faxon Knowles ’55<br />
Crayton Benson Knox ’98<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kocik<br />
Jenny Hogan Koehn ’98<br />
Andrew M. Koenig<br />
Mikaela E. Koetz ’16<br />
Cynthia Pierce Kohlenberger ’84<br />
Ann Elizabeth Knoke Kohudic ’92<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Kolb<br />
Martha Wallker Konvicka ’79<br />
English Griffith Koontz ’95<br />
Ms. Kathryn T. Kotula and Mr. David R. Fronk<br />
Kama Boswell Koudelka ’85<br />
Hannah K. Kowitz ’15<br />
KPMG U. S. Foundation, Inc.<br />
Kelly Kraft-Meyer and Richard G. Meyer<br />
Tamra S. Krahn ’06<br />
Alice Johnson Krendel ’72<br />
Michaela Krohn ’03<br />
Cathleen Cummings Krolczyk ’95<br />
Bruce Watts Krucke ’54<br />
Shannon H. Kuehlwein ’86<br />
James Kulikowski<br />
Jane Shipman Kuntz ’58<br />
The Kuntz Foundation<br />
Allison T. and Dale R. Kunze<br />
KVA Foundation<br />
L3Harris Foundation, Inc<br />
Annie M. Labatt<br />
Peter M. Labombarde<br />
Victoria H. LaBrosse ’06<br />
Anne Richardson Lackey ’90<br />
Caroline P. Lacy ’14<br />
Ashley Jean Rogers LaGanga ’05<br />
Alice Cutting Laimbeer ’83<br />
Aileen H. Laing ’57<br />
Heather McPheeters Lake ’10<br />
Dorothy S. Lakner<br />
Victoria Munn and Bruce Lamb<br />
Karen Holt Ashworth Lambert ’89<br />
Adria M. Lande ’96<br />
Alexandra L. Lane ’16<br />
Anna T. Lane<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Lang<br />
Hibernia Cuthbert Langley ’73<br />
Diane Stephenson Lankford ’67<br />
Willie Ann Newbury Lansing ’62<br />
Elizabeth M. Larabell<br />
Reyhan Tansal Larimer ’62<br />
Cara Ardemagni LaRoche ’92<br />
Kirsten Vold Larsen ’84<br />
Mary Pat Behnke Larsen ’66<br />
Andrew L. Larson<br />
Jeannine Petersen Laskey ’75<br />
Wesley Powell Lassen ’89<br />
Linda McGuire Last ’58<br />
Nancy Dew Lathrop ’67<br />
Irfan Lorraine Kiratli Latimer ’90<br />
Lynn M. Laufenberg<br />
Melissa Carrington Laurie ’86<br />
Christina Lawes<br />
Caro Lawrence ’79<br />
Josephine Shaw Lawson ’70<br />
Kathryn Elizabeth Lawson ’04<br />
Laura Connerat Lawton ’62<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Leach<br />
Amy A. Leake ’96<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel G. Leake<br />
Jennifer A. Lear ’99<br />
Sammie Goyne Leary ’82<br />
Susan Cash Leazer ’82<br />
Martha Dabney Leclere ’54<br />
Carolyn M. Leddy ’98<br />
Donna Mihalik Gelagotis Lee ’78<br />
Sally Uptegrove Lee ’71<br />
Nancy Fink Leeds ’57<br />
Frances Johnson Lee-Vandell ’64<br />
Daniel A. Leggett<br />
Maren Howard Leggett ’95<br />
Rachel Anne Bostain Legum ’03<br />
Susan C. Lehman<br />
Olympia A. K. LeHota ’20<br />
Lynda Leibel ’82<br />
Leslie Braginetz Lemish ’89<br />
Bridget McGlynn Lengyel ’85<br />
Laurie I. Lenkel ’76<br />
Olivia Anne McGregor Leon ’65<br />
Harriet Ivey Leonard ’80<br />
Keedie Grones Leonard ’76<br />
Jessica E. Leonardi ’07<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Leslie<br />
Dorothy Wood Letts ’50<br />
Emmy Sau Han Leung ’89<br />
Christine Eng Leventhal ’73<br />
Jane L. Levy<br />
Karen Harcum Levy ’86<br />
Cortney D. Lewandowski ’12<br />
Jane Garst Lewis ’61<br />
Jean G. Lewis ’87<br />
Jeanne H. E. Lewis ’83<br />
Lynn D. Lewis<br />
Sarah E. Lewis<br />
Annamarie Lichtenberg ’13<br />
Lorie Teeter Lichtlen ’82<br />
Camelot J. Lindauer ’93<br />
Nancy Robinson Lindberg ’78<br />
Sarah M. Lindemann ’13<br />
Karin I. Lindgren ’75<br />
Beth Daniel Lindsay<br />
Elizabeth R. Lindsey ’86<br />
Lex Lindsey<br />
Susan Lindsey<br />
Shelley Gearhart Lindstrom ’67<br />
Christina K. Link ’02<br />
Betty Mundy Littrell ’52<br />
Astrid M. B. Liverman ’98<br />
Eric Liverman<br />
Gail P. Lloyd ’60<br />
Tim W. Loboschefski<br />
Jennifer Beck Locke ’96<br />
Stacey Sickels Locke ’88<br />
Lockheed Martin Corporation<br />
Peggy Jean Fossett Lodeesen ’58<br />
Catherine London Clayton ’99<br />
Jean Morris Long ’54<br />
Mary E. Long<br />
Randi Miles Long ’66<br />
Savannah Humphrey Long ’05<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Lonick<br />
Beatrice Dingwell Loos ’46<br />
Harrah Lord ’66<br />
Hannah Lott<br />
Kristin Martin Lough ’04<br />
Amy T. Louthan ’97<br />
Christine Love ’70<br />
Virginia Page Love ’50<br />
Sally Gray Lovejoy ’80<br />
Nancy Morrow Lovell ’52<br />
Candida Connard Low ’68<br />
Julia Fort Lowe ’63<br />
Katharine Tilghman Lowe ’57<br />
Kristen Whitney Lowrey ’87<br />
Christine Smith Lowry ’57<br />
Martha Riggs Lowry ’83<br />
Ann Key Lucas ’78<br />
Jerry Dreisbach Ludeke ’54<br />
Mary F. Ludington ’76<br />
Kerry Thacker Ludolph ’97<br />
Virginia Timmons Ludwick ’53<br />
Jennifer Lynn Luffman ’02<br />
Catherine A. Lumsden ’78<br />
Betty Phillips Lupton ’58<br />
Michele Williams Lusby ’91<br />
Elizabeth Hanger Luther ’65<br />
Barney Walker Lutsk ’65<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Lydick<br />
Mary Lynn Lyle ’67<br />
Ferrell Lyles ’07<br />
Mary Stollenwerck Lynch ’63<br />
Patricia Sparks Lyndon ’68<br />
Elizabeth Francke Lynn ’74<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Lynn<br />
Jennifer N. Lynn ’06<br />
Nancy Coppedge Lynn ’61<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Megan Coffield Lyon ’80<br />
Prof. and Mrs. John D. Lyons<br />
Christina Savage Lytle ’88<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. MacDonald III<br />
Mary Steketee MacDonald ’62<br />
Faith Bullis Mace ’61<br />
Sarah C. Machinist ’01<br />
Whitney W. Machnik ’85<br />
Madeleine J. MacIntire ’10<br />
Amber L. MacKay ’15<br />
William MacKenzie<br />
Elizabeth Eisinger Mackes ’86<br />
Julie Whitehurst MacKinlay ’66<br />
Brooke Hamilton MacKinnon ’62<br />
Katherine M. Macklin ’13<br />
Monna Simpson MacLellan ’51<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. MacLeod<br />
Nancy E. MacMeekin ’65<br />
Nivin Snyder MacMillan ’65<br />
Eileen MacMurtrie-Zuckerman ’96<br />
Tonia W. Macneil ’68<br />
Marion MacRae ’67<br />
MacRae Family Foundation Fund of ACT<br />
for Alexandria<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Madden<br />
Diane Magasich<br />
Kathryn Thilking Maginnis ’73<br />
Aoife Magner ’19<br />
Cecilia J. Mahan ’19<br />
Katherine Cooley Maher ’68<br />
Monica C. Mahoney ’89<br />
Jennifer Schmidt Major ’99<br />
Ann Vandersyde Malbon ’80<br />
Ann South Malick ’75<br />
Barbara E. Mallett ’79<br />
Elizabeth Malley-Lowe ’86<br />
Margaret Milnor Mallory ’76<br />
Ann Marie E. Beatty Malone ’90<br />
Frances Redmond Malone ’77<br />
Jane A. Maloney ’74<br />
Megan C. Maloney ’08<br />
Laura A. Mangus ’89<br />
Sue Corning Mann ’49<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mannen, Jr.<br />
Megan C. Manubay ’08<br />
Alexandra Stewart Manwarren ’94<br />
Cynthia Wacholtz Marbut ’86<br />
Marie C. Reed Foundation, a donor advised fund<br />
of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Nancy Blackwell Marion ’74<br />
Mark and Ieke Scully Charitable Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Markham Charitable Gift Fund, a donor advised<br />
fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Felix D. Markham IV<br />
Olivia Ungerer Marschall ’06<br />
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.<br />
Anne R.h Marshall ’77<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Marshall<br />
Diana E. Marshall ’04<br />
Janet Monroe Schumann Marshall ’56<br />
Victoria A. Marshall ’10<br />
Barbara D. Martin ’01<br />
Jamie Planck Martin ’81<br />
Jesse K. Martin ’02<br />
Laura Rose Martin ’91<br />
Michelle Janiak Martin ’97<br />
Molly Dunn Martin ’73<br />
Stella Wright Martin ’77<br />
Mercedith Nuesca Martineau ’05<br />
Delia E. Martinez<br />
Linda J. Martinez<br />
Marcia Brandenburg Martinson ’74<br />
Elizabeth Eager Marvel ’05<br />
Judith Harbottle Maselli ’68<br />
Susan Hickman Mason ’95<br />
Lourine Mays Massie ’67<br />
Mary McCall Mastin ’67<br />
Elinor Vorys Matchneer ’54<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Mather<br />
Mary Matheson ’68<br />
Ann C. Mathews ’69<br />
Deyanne Passarello Mathews ’75<br />
Melanie Stembal Mathews ’68<br />
Kathryn Carroll Mathewson ’66<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Mattingly, Jr.<br />
Nancy Cunningham Mauck ’83<br />
Helen Chatt Mauney ’10<br />
Kristin Liljegren Maurice ’92<br />
Laura Maus<br />
Emory Furniss Maxwell ’74<br />
Judy Addison Mayberry ’67<br />
Olivia Benedict Maynard ’58<br />
Nickcole K. Maynard-Errami<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Mayo-Pitts<br />
Cathy Cash Mays ’84<br />
Erin G. Mays ’05<br />
Mary U. Mazgaj ’09<br />
Caitlin Webber Mazzucca ’04<br />
Virginia Tripp McAdams ’05<br />
Wendilynn Wood McAfee ’81<br />
Ann McAllister-Thomas ’87<br />
Linda Lee McAndrew ’64<br />
Eleanor Vawter McBride ’05<br />
Cynthia Hardy McCabe ’75<br />
Erlend Carlton McCaffree ’54<br />
Lenetta Archard McCampbell ’85<br />
Deborah Koss McCarthy ’77<br />
Shannon M. McCarthy ’16<br />
Barbara J. McCleave-Long ’72<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. McClellan<br />
Kate Gorman McClung ’11<br />
Polly Parker McClure ’83<br />
Elizabeth Parker McColl ’63<br />
Judy A. McComb ’90<br />
Gary McCombs<br />
Meredith L. McCool<br />
Kerrie H. McCoy<br />
Elizabeth Waring McCracken ’02<br />
Amelia W. McDaniel ’94<br />
Nancy Moss McDaniel ’65<br />
Emily Quinn McDermott ’80<br />
Kathryn Mendelson McDonald ’60<br />
Estate of Nancy M. McDonal ’53*<br />
Susan Strong McDonald ’65<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McDonough<br />
Ellen Sellers McDowell ’77<br />
Elizabeth K. McElroy ’16<br />
Mary E. McElroy ’84<br />
Sorrel Mackall McElroy ’59<br />
Aline Rex McEvoy ’65<br />
Christine M. McFadden ’82<br />
Fiona M. McFadden ’12<br />
Jane A. McFaddin ’73<br />
Ashley Johnson McGee ’03<br />
Joan M. McGettigan ’83<br />
Karis L. McGill<br />
Nancy C. McGill<br />
K. Holly McGlothlin ’78<br />
Martha McGrady and Yeong K. Loke<br />
Sarah Kennedy McGroarty ’77<br />
Thelma Houk McGrory ’57<br />
Maureen K. McGuire ’06<br />
Catherine Roberts McHaney ’55<br />
Comber R. McHugh ’86<br />
Sarane C. McHugh ’81<br />
Alice McInnis ’73<br />
Roland G. McIntosh<br />
Janine Brockie McKee ’70<br />
Virginia Ready McKeel ’62<br />
Lauren Friend McKelvey ’03<br />
Bernadean Gupton McKelway ’78<br />
Becky Mulvihill McKenna ’78<br />
Kay Branch McKenzie ’58<br />
Stephanie Lyon Pratt McKinney ’91<br />
Sarah E. McLemore ’08<br />
Kathryn Cunningham McMahon ’97<br />
Elizabeth J. McMartin ’79<br />
Mary Clare Briscoe McNatt ’76<br />
Barbara Bailey McNeal ’68<br />
Leyte C. McNealus ’18<br />
Ms. Lisa McNealus<br />
Carolyn Ream McPheeters ’82<br />
Sheila M. McWilliams ’92<br />
Frances DeSaussure Meade ’68<br />
Robert S. Meade<br />
Caren Joanna Meade-Runaldue ’06<br />
Lola Brock Meakin ’77<br />
Katherine Turner Mears ’53<br />
Medica Health Insurance<br />
Rebecca Bottomley Meeker ’71<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Meeks<br />
Miriam Washabaugh Meglan ’71<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Meighan<br />
Linda Pattberg Meixner ’68<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Bethany M. Melendy ’09<br />
Cecelia Clark Melesco ’75<br />
Anne F. Melton ’57<br />
Susan C. Mengden ’80<br />
Meryl B. Menon<br />
Karen Black Meredith ’80<br />
Angela Elliott Merrick ’98<br />
Karen Ayers Merritt ’88<br />
Amy Bryan Merselis ’91<br />
Jane Jamison Messer ’59<br />
Mary Watt Messer ’83<br />
Helene Mewborn<br />
Louellen Brooks Meyer ’85<br />
Patricia Stanton Meyer ’61<br />
Petsy Gautier Mezey ’55<br />
Deborah Glazier Michael ’62<br />
Scott Michaels<br />
Amy Daugherty Michel ’96<br />
Marianne Micros ’65<br />
Carolyn Grant Milden ’88<br />
Lucy Chapman Millar ’83<br />
Barbara Yocom Miller ’63<br />
Carolyn Eney Miller ’03<br />
Chasity Clarke Miller ’04<br />
Jeannette Bush Miller ’71<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Miller<br />
Kathryn Montz Miller ’69<br />
Mariah M Miller ’17<br />
Nancy Morris Miller ’83<br />
Sharon Resener Miller ’81<br />
Stephen N. Miller<br />
Laura McGlamery Million ’96<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Mills<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Milone<br />
Julia Walton Milstead ’86<br />
Meri T. Minatel-Schreiber ’89<br />
Catherine Hollberg Minor ’90<br />
Minor Foundation, Inc.<br />
Katharine Shaw Minton ’52<br />
Julie Harju Misakinis ’99<br />
Jennifer Green Mitchell ’86<br />
Molly F. Mitchell ’06<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mittelholtz<br />
Jennifer W. Mix ’15<br />
Sarah Bonham Mohle ’77<br />
Kelly Schmitt Molique ’94<br />
Sue Monk and Joe Monk<br />
Mary Gillespie Monroe ’67<br />
Sarah Smith Freeman Monroe ’75<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Carrington Montague<br />
Susan Taylor Montague ’59<br />
Montague Family Fund at the Generosity Trust<br />
Hailey Beaudry Montalbano ’16<br />
Jackelinne Montero-Sharpe ’13<br />
A. Elizabeth Montgomery ’75<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Raphael B. Montgomery<br />
Tonya Grudier Montgomery ’98<br />
Isobel Alice Moody ’06<br />
Catherine Taylor Moore ’78<br />
Franklin Moore<br />
Maria Kitchin Moore ’04<br />
Mary Varn Moore ’72<br />
Sally Hamilton Moore ’61<br />
Kimberly Roda Moorhead ’95<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Mooza<br />
Diana W. Moran<br />
Katie F. Whitmire ’08<br />
Hannah Craighill Morehead ’79<br />
Arielle S. Morgan ’15<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John Luther Morgan III<br />
Mitzi L. Morgan ’85<br />
Robin Hendrickson Morgan ’95<br />
Susan E. Morgan ’94<br />
Lena M. Morrill ’11<br />
Patricia Morrill<br />
Alicia Markham Morris ’02<br />
Drs. Susan and David Morris<br />
Laurel R. Morris<br />
Marilyn Garabrant Morris ’66<br />
Michele R. Morris<br />
Miriam Baker Morris ’83<br />
Morris Family Foundation<br />
Sara J. Morrison ’86<br />
Melissa Cope Morrissette ’83<br />
John Morrissey<br />
Margaret Moran Morrow ’67<br />
Elvira Whitehead Morse ’48<br />
Katherine W. Morse ’01<br />
Kristen Johnson Mortensen ’09<br />
Caperton Morton ’85<br />
Mary Payne Morton ’64<br />
Margaret Mundy Mosby ’62<br />
Barbara Mosegard-Diamond and<br />
David M. Diamond<br />
Marguerite McKee Moss ’66<br />
Virginia Blair Moss ’98<br />
Virginia Harsh Mossburg ’83<br />
Lorelei Bahret Mote ’94<br />
Victoria A. Mott ’13<br />
Cynthia Stover Motyka ’80<br />
Joy Reynolds Mouledoux ’84<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Mountcastle, Jr.<br />
Patricia Mountrey ’68<br />
Ellen Murphy Clement Mouri ’80<br />
Sarah Mouri ’06<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
121
DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Jim Mozingo<br />
Mr. Mark Gilkey, donor-advised fund at the<br />
National Philanthropic Trust<br />
Sutapa Mukherjee ’93<br />
Meredith Davis Mulhern ’99<br />
Anne Carroll Mulholland ’56<br />
Amy E. Mullen ’02<br />
Audrey H. Mullen ’89<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mike G. Mullins<br />
Patti Snodgrass Mullins ’82<br />
Carole E. Munn ’67<br />
Monica Brown Munnings ’98<br />
Dagmar Stoll Murphy ’64<br />
Elizabeth Burdge Murphy ’75<br />
Margaret Foley Murphy ’03<br />
Mary Jo Petree Murphy ’70<br />
Bettina Patterson Murray ’64<br />
Caroline Tuttle Murray ’71<br />
Christine Kulczycki Murray ’68<br />
Courtney Cash Mustin ’68<br />
Katherine Johnston Myatt ’64<br />
Katharine Vaughan Myers ’06<br />
Margaret Gillmer Myers ’66<br />
Suzanne Solberg Nagle ’70<br />
Catherine Crowell Latimore Namorato ’96<br />
Frederika Merriman Naylor ’55<br />
Emma M. Neave ’12<br />
Candace Sheffield Neilson ’73<br />
Catherine Osuna Neis ’97<br />
Anne Garrity Nelson ’79<br />
Howard P. Nelson<br />
Jennifer M.Gaudette Nelson ’95<br />
Kristin Chapdelaine Nelson ’08<br />
Susannah M. Nevison<br />
New York Life Foundation<br />
Anna L. Newberg ’11<br />
Beth Ann Trapold Newton ’86<br />
Judith Newton<br />
Louise C. Newton ’82<br />
Thu Pham Nguyen ’52<br />
Martha Clay Nichols ’56<br />
Susan Carr Nickel ’86<br />
Karen Gonya Nickles ’86<br />
Britton Hassell Nielsen ’67<br />
Diana Crandall Nielsen ’84<br />
Tennessee Nielsen ’76<br />
Catherine Winship Nihem ’95<br />
Molly Reeb Nissman ’77<br />
Nancy Nix-Karnakis ’63<br />
Elizabeth Coggeshall Nock ’58<br />
Louise Konsberg Noll ’44<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David Nolton<br />
Anne Garrett Norloff ’72<br />
Mary Kyger Norman ’70<br />
Mary Humelsine Norment ’68<br />
David Norris<br />
Dorsey Tillett Northrup ’75<br />
Julie Seibels Northup ’68<br />
Jean Notestein ’86<br />
Loretta Fitzgerald Nowlan ’77<br />
Virginia Marchant Noyes ’59<br />
Ann Shipper Oates ’71<br />
Donald R. Ober<br />
Ashley Peeples Oberlin ’89<br />
Martha Bulkley O’Brien ’59<br />
Anita McVey O’Connor ’73<br />
Cecily B. O’Connor<br />
Denise Wisell O’Connor ’71<br />
Eleanor R. O’Connor ’07<br />
Mr. Lawrence N. Odence H’55<br />
(Susanna Bernard Odence ’55*)<br />
Patricia Tucker O’Desky ’75<br />
Kerry S. O’Donnell ’93<br />
Magnolia F. O’Donnell ’18<br />
Linda J. Odum ’72<br />
Ashley Thorner Oelrich ’96<br />
Janet Richards Oikawa ’75<br />
Deborah Mutch Olander ’76<br />
Josephine Noland Old ’66<br />
Old Dominion Box Foundation, Inc.<br />
Deborah Fischer Oleisky ’85<br />
Shelley M. Oliver ’98<br />
Shirley M. Oliver ’84<br />
Alicia Roddy Olsen ’02<br />
Emily N. Olson ’07<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James A. O’Neal, Jr.<br />
Megan C. O’Neal ’08<br />
Nora S. Oney ’92<br />
Dina R. Orbison ’00<br />
Kimberly A. Orchowski ’15<br />
Aelica Ingenthron Orsi ’92<br />
Mary Beth Miller Orson ’86<br />
Amy Boyce Osaki ’83<br />
Mary A. Osborn ’73<br />
Douwina Osinga<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Albert V. Osterholm, Jr.<br />
Amy M. Ostroth<br />
Dejerianne Ostrow ’96<br />
Drucilla Springer Oswalt ’78<br />
Peggy Morrison Outon ’72<br />
Caroline Heltzel Overstreet ’12<br />
Elizabeth Donald Owen ’89<br />
Carolyn Birbick Ownby ’80<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Oybkhan<br />
Ann Prichard Pace ’61<br />
Elizabeth Conner Pace ’86<br />
Barbara Rose Page ’83<br />
Janet L. Page ’87<br />
Jennifer Trzupek Pala ’96<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Carmen J. Palermo<br />
Mara G. Pandolfo<br />
Kathleen “kp” Papadimitriou ’84<br />
Christina Johnson Pappas ’08<br />
Kathy Gagnon Pappas ’81<br />
Virginia Conley Pappas ’73<br />
Leila Kucewicz Parham ’63<br />
Constance C. Paris ’99<br />
Julia Paris ’99<br />
Mary Morris Park ’04<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Parker<br />
Julie Parker<br />
Patricia V. Parker ’75<br />
Elizabeth Pidgeon Parkinson ’64<br />
Rebecca L. Parrish ’18<br />
Megan Fletcher Parry ’96<br />
Haideh Khosrowshahi Partovi ’74<br />
Renis Siner Paton ’55<br />
Maggie Saylor Patrick ’07<br />
Margaret Pittman Patterson ’67<br />
Olivia Cantey Patton ’53<br />
Lindsay Eneguess Paulette ’11<br />
Marie-Elysse B. Paulhus ’01<br />
Susan Verbridge Paulson ’76<br />
Leslie Davis Paxton ’62<br />
Brenda Childress Payne ’88<br />
Stacey Eisenberg Payne ’94<br />
Aimee Armentrout Peacemaker ’99<br />
Lucy Eubank Peak ’77<br />
Franklin V. Peale, Jr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John Pearce<br />
Sarah W. Pearre ’48<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Pearson<br />
Parker Shultis Pearson ’90<br />
Angelina M. Peck ’14<br />
Barbara Behrens Peck ’78<br />
Patricia L. Peckol<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David Peebles<br />
Peebles Family Foundation<br />
Sally Shapard Peek ’82<br />
Carolyn Clark Pegg ’63<br />
Emily Pegues ’00<br />
Carol Cole Pelzer ’65<br />
Hallie Pence<br />
Elizabeth Few Penfield ’60<br />
Andrea Pearson Pennington ’66<br />
Jacqueline C. Penny ’71<br />
Virginia Stanford Perdue ’69<br />
Tia Trout Perez ’02<br />
Adlyn M. Perez-Figueroa ’08<br />
Susan Morck Perrin ’67<br />
Christa M. Perry ’96<br />
Julie Boothe Perry ’58<br />
Julia Huntington Pesek ’86<br />
Melanie Chriscoe Peters ’97<br />
Sarah M. Peters<br />
C. Gregg Petersmeyer<br />
Ruth Magee Peterson ’51<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Petrie<br />
Olivia Hardin Pettifer ’86<br />
Lauretta Scovel Pfeifer ’84<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Danny E. Pfeiffer<br />
Darelle A. Pfeiffer ’98<br />
Christine Weiss Pfeil ’74<br />
Pfizer Inc.<br />
Barbara J. Phaup<br />
Andrea Peterson Philips-Bramham ’76<br />
Emily Vermilya Phillips ’08<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Mr. and Mrs. George G. Phillips, Jr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs.Wayne Phillips<br />
Laura Haskell Phinizy ’65<br />
Kristen File Phoenix ’93<br />
Rachel A. Pietsch<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Pike<br />
Ruth R. Pillow<br />
Hannah L. Pillsbury ’74<br />
Helen Raney Pinckney ’66 and<br />
C. Cotesworth Pinckney<br />
Lauren Martin Pinion ’06<br />
Lezlie Varisco Pinto ’87<br />
Kathleen Abel Pione ’93<br />
Nancy Mortensen Piper ’74<br />
Angelia Pippin<br />
Chloe Lansdale Pitard ’61<br />
Bonnie L. Pitman ’68<br />
Briana Beckham Pitt ’04<br />
Pitts Giving Fund, a donor advised fund of<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Amy Jo Downing Pitts ’99<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Pitts<br />
Rebecca Seabrook Pitts ’78<br />
Ruth Carpenter Pitts ’58<br />
Kathleen S. Placidi<br />
Heather L. Plank ’96<br />
Wendi Brunell Plenge ’82<br />
PNC Bank Foundation<br />
Janice E. Pogue ’71<br />
Dana Bordvick Poleski ’98<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Dale W. Polley, Sr.<br />
Virginia Spangler Polley ’76<br />
Sally-Ann Polson-Slocum ’78<br />
Saynor Johnson Ponder ’57<br />
Emily L. Poore ’99<br />
Michelle L. Poore ’04<br />
Ardis Fratus Porter ’48<br />
Catherine T. Porter ’68<br />
Elisabeth Scott Porter ’64<br />
Terri Brockwell Porter ’91<br />
Kirsten A. Porter-Stransky ’09<br />
April Collins Potterfield ’96<br />
Jane G. Potts ’73<br />
Thom Potts<br />
Averala Paxton Poucher ’57<br />
Anne Litle Poulet ’64<br />
Catherine C. Powell ’95<br />
Judith B. Powell ’69<br />
Lisa J. Powell<br />
Margaret Morris Powell ’54<br />
Joan Powers ’70<br />
Ann Crompton Tippin Prestney ’71<br />
Elizabeth Cone Preston ’78<br />
Jennifer Preston<br />
Christine Mendel Prewitt ’73<br />
Anne Osterholm ’96 and Gregory Pribble<br />
Laura Walters Price ’99<br />
Mary Lanford Price ’91<br />
Rachel Baltus Price ’96<br />
Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP<br />
Catherine Slatinshek Prillaman ’76<br />
Pringle-Read Endowment of Coastal Community<br />
Martha Bennett Pritchett Conner ’68<br />
Elizabeth Proctor ’84<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Proctor<br />
Cynthia Gridley Pruden ’71<br />
Cynthia Bumgardner Puckett ’98<br />
Sarah Scales Puckett ’95<br />
Virginia Stevens Purcell ’72<br />
M. Claire McDonnell Purnell ’81<br />
Deborah Purvis ’93<br />
Serena K. Putegnat ’98<br />
PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc.<br />
Leslie Heye Quarrier ’62<br />
Consuelo Martinez Quattrocchi ’82<br />
James B. Query<br />
Elena Quevedo ’83<br />
Meredith Borst Quillman ’78<br />
Catherine Catlett Quinlan ’76<br />
Stacey Hannan Quinn ’89<br />
Mayalin Quinones ’16<br />
Melissa Murray Quinones ’87<br />
Jennifer Rae ’82<br />
Catherine Raeder<br />
Wallis Wickham Raemer ’70<br />
Marcia Pollock Ragsdale ’70<br />
Carolyn Rogers Rainbow ’70<br />
Caroline G. Rainey ’10<br />
Lynn Rainville<br />
Janet M. Rakoczy ’78<br />
Walter Ramberg<br />
Shanti Ramesh ’06<br />
Kimberly Riccardi Ramsey ’73<br />
Laura B. Ramsey ’96<br />
Maryce Ramsey Ramsey ’82<br />
Victoria Mills Ramsey ’13<br />
Kearsley R. Rand ’81<br />
Mary Clemens Randolph ’70<br />
Molly F. Randolph ’67<br />
Sarah Rebentisch Randolph ’74<br />
Dianna Yaeger Rankin ’66<br />
Mary Kendig Rankin ’70<br />
Elizabeth Wilbun Ranson ’99<br />
Pamela J. Rasche ’73<br />
Nancy Pesek Rasenberger ’51<br />
Carolyn King Ratcliffe ’60<br />
Mary Scott Rauch ’62<br />
Jennifer Parker Raudenbush ’95<br />
Elizabeth D. Rawles ’75<br />
Katherine Rose Rawls ’75<br />
Mary Lyman Ray ’71<br />
Shannon Young Ray ’84<br />
Melissa Gail Raymond ’12<br />
Raytheon Company<br />
Cynthia Rakow Readyhough ’96<br />
Anna Carmichael Redding ’99<br />
Gretchen Armstrong Redmond ’55<br />
Marie Louise Carney Reed ’62<br />
Nancy Bullard Reed ’66<br />
Noreen Conover Reed ’73<br />
Scarlett L. Reel ’13<br />
Eleanor Crossley ’67<br />
Kathryn Ingham Reese ’88<br />
Catherine D. Reeve ’88<br />
Lynn Croft Reeves ’81<br />
Jessica Reeves<br />
Suzanne Evans Reeves ’68<br />
Elisabeth Burwell Reichard ’84<br />
Tacy Bolton Reid ’06<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Reidy<br />
Sarah Reidy ’96<br />
Diane Dale Reiling ’73<br />
Anna M. Reilly ’95<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Rodger A. Reinhart<br />
Ann Moore Remington ’44<br />
Alicia M. Renfrow ’03<br />
Page Munroe Renger ’67<br />
Mary B. Rewcastle<br />
Imogen Slade Rex ’96<br />
Amy Cook Rexrode ’97<br />
Anne Leavell Reynolds ’63<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Reynolds<br />
Charla Leonard Reynolds ’72<br />
Marguerite Morgan Reynolds ’65<br />
Nina R. Rezai ’14<br />
Vanessa K. Rhodes ’90<br />
Daniela N. Ricci ’95<br />
Amanda L. Rice ’00<br />
Melanie Holland Rice ’76<br />
Michael D. Richards<br />
June Lee Richardson ’86<br />
Robbin Richardson ’71<br />
Meredith K. Richel ’05<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Richel<br />
Victoria Clarendon Richter ’80<br />
Rebekah E. Ricksecker<br />
Deborah Luby Rie ’68<br />
Melissa Greenwood Riemer ’75<br />
Marguerita Chandler Riggall ’68<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Rihl<br />
The Riley Fund of TIAA Charitable Inc<br />
Amy Waite Riley ’93<br />
Elizabeth Hansbrough Riley ’13<br />
Hollylane Riley ’06<br />
Dana G. Ripperton ’05<br />
Jennifer Lauren Mooney Risey ’93<br />
Carroll Weitzel Rivers ’57<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Dean H. Rizzo<br />
Alice Haywood Robbins ’65<br />
Joanne Hicks Robblee ’70<br />
Sabryna McClung Roberson ’93<br />
Roberts and Allison Brokaw Family Fund, a<br />
donor advised fund of Fidelity Investment<br />
Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Angela Grisby Roberts ’03<br />
Sarah Dennis Roberts ’96<br />
Brooke Robertson<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Katie Clarkson Robertson ’97<br />
Edith Brooke Robertson ’50<br />
Lisa Nelson Robertson ’76<br />
Acacia Marie Salazar Robinson ’15<br />
Deborah Schmidt Robinson ’89<br />
Captain and Mrs. Evan D. Robinson<br />
Julie Dopheide Robinson ’13<br />
Kathryn Robinson Hillestad ’89<br />
Elise Carlen Robison ’84<br />
Patricia A. Robison<br />
Nicole B. Roca<br />
Madeline Hodges Rodriguez ’13<br />
Sarah Weigel Rodriguez ’89<br />
Emma Matheson Roe ’57<br />
Rebecca Yerkes Rogers ’52<br />
Thomas A. Rogers<br />
Kelli M. Rogowski ’99<br />
Susan Castle Rolewick ’74<br />
Melissa Rollosson and William Murphy<br />
Elizabeth Thomas Rook ’80<br />
Frances A. Root ’80<br />
Mary Ann Mellen Root ’53<br />
Barbara Burns Roper ’64<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Rora<br />
Nan Locke Rosa ’53<br />
Rachelle Colquitt Rose ’97<br />
Jennifer Memmott Rosenberg ’86<br />
Carla L. Rosenbloom and H. David Rosenbloom<br />
Jean Platt Rospondek ’73<br />
Amy Biathrow Ross ’94<br />
Thomas Roth<br />
Nancy Buckey Rothacker ’86<br />
Jennifer A. Rotman ’84<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Roulston<br />
Susan Hight Rountree ’59<br />
Gary Maxwell Rousseau ’56<br />
Wendy Wise Routh ’75<br />
Edna Rogers Rowe ’56<br />
Megan Thomas Rowe ’01<br />
Mary Davis Roxer ’04<br />
Donna Daniels Rubin ’76<br />
Jennifer Smith Rucker ’96<br />
Cynthia Rucker-Staton<br />
Paige Kaylor Ruddy ’10<br />
Eden L. Rue ’89<br />
Raymond G. Ruff<br />
Erin A. Ruffead ’05<br />
Susan T. Ruhl<br />
Meriwether Hagerty Rumrill ’59<br />
Russell Family Charitable Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment<br />
Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Caitlin Sundby Russell ’94<br />
Cornelia S. Russell<br />
Lauranah Ison Russell ’03<br />
Michael Russell<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Robin O. Russell<br />
Susan Clay Russell ’81<br />
Fleming Parker Rutledge ’59<br />
Jane Taylor Ryan ’66<br />
Kathleen A. Ryan ’75<br />
Kathleen E. Ryan ’08<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Ryan<br />
Shanna P. Ryan ’08<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Ryan<br />
Eugenia Bull Ryner ’67<br />
Nicole M. Sabovik ’19<br />
Miles Sadler<br />
Arthur Saint-Aubin<br />
Lee Grzybowski Sakowicz ’86<br />
Sarah Andres Sale ’90<br />
Alicia Laing Salisbury ’61<br />
Hilary Harris Salley ’87<br />
Khristian K. Salters ’12<br />
Jessica Salvatore<br />
Magdalena Salvesen ’65<br />
Margaret Lyle Samdahl ’72<br />
Courtney L. Sames ’06<br />
Jane Hubbard Sams ’79<br />
Nicholas E. Sanders<br />
Heather McGowen Sanford ’91<br />
Julia Grosvenor Sanford ’80<br />
Lee Addison Sanford ’73<br />
Caroline A. Sapp ’09<br />
Margaret Jenkins Sapp ’97<br />
Margaret Elizabeth Stookey Sargent ’88<br />
Jessica McCarthy Sarolli ’08<br />
Molly Haskell Sarris ’61<br />
Jennifer M. Sauer<br />
Deborah Hooker Sauers ’74<br />
Catherine Callender Sauls ’86<br />
Yolanda L. Davis Saunders ’96<br />
Elma L. Savage ’68<br />
Robert. E. Savage (Ann Orr Savage ’48*)<br />
Anne S. Bigham<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Savitz<br />
Diana Simrell Savory ’66<br />
Elizabeth Miller Sayler ’55<br />
SC Johnson Wax Fund, Inc.<br />
Laura J. Schaefer ’07<br />
Kathryn Smith Schauer ’56<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Schauer<br />
Deborah Byers Schechter ’72<br />
Katherine Maxwell Schellhammer ’95<br />
Patricia Whelan Schenck ’82<br />
Linda Mae Visocan Scherr ’87<br />
Mariann Schick<br />
Christina Bacchiani Schieffelin ’68<br />
Gracie Tredwell Schild ’82<br />
Katherine Vuicich Schinasi ’74<br />
Georgia Schley Ritchie ’80<br />
Kathryn Sell Schlosberg ’59<br />
L. Angelyn Schmid ’87<br />
Jennifer Wiley Schmidt ’06<br />
Julia M. Schmitz, PhD ’03<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Schmitz<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar W. Schneider, Jr.<br />
Linda-Jean Smith Schneider ’76<br />
Leslie Caroll Cantrell Schoeffel ’87<br />
Elliott Graham Schoenig ’76<br />
Alexa T. Schriempf ’97<br />
Vikki A. Schroeder ’87<br />
Holly Zweigler Schroeter ’65<br />
Judith Greer Schulz ’61<br />
Kathleen Cochran Schutze ’73<br />
Dawn Leary Schwarting ’95<br />
Nancy Hatch Schwartzmiller ’79<br />
Glenn Scott<br />
Joyce M. Scott ’05<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Nancy Pendergrass Scott ’67<br />
Cornelia Harrison Scribner ’62<br />
Angela M. Scully ’77<br />
Ieke Osinga Scully ’78<br />
Alexandra R. Seal ’12<br />
Stella Mae Renchard Seamans ’67<br />
Mabelle Garrard Seawright ’58<br />
Robin H. Seay<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Sedelow, Jr.<br />
Carolyn Williams Seeling ’77<br />
Bonnie L. Seitz ’01<br />
Mira Selm<br />
Anne Frierman Sewell ’84<br />
Antoinette F. Seymour<br />
Cannie Crysler Shafer ’78<br />
Harriet Houston Shaffer ’64<br />
Dayna Kinnard Shah ’70<br />
Lisa Brundage Shapiro ’77<br />
Janeen K. Sharma ’96<br />
Elizabeth Cahill Sharman ’84<br />
Rosemary Smith Sharp ’67<br />
Mary MacKenzie Shaw ’61<br />
Joan Markey Shaw ’76<br />
Margaret Haley Sheehan ’77<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Shelburn, Jr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Shenker<br />
Nancy Anderson Shepard ’55<br />
Cindy Harper Sherrell ’88<br />
Mary Alexander Sherwood ’53<br />
Julia Shields ’62<br />
Beverly O. Shivers<br />
Margaret Shortlidge ’06<br />
Anne Whitney Bay Shuck ’89<br />
Megan E. Shuford ’16<br />
Will Shumadine<br />
Heather McKoy Shumaker ’94<br />
Heather D. Shumaker ’04<br />
Betsy Shure Gross ’62<br />
Penelope Steketee Sidor ’66<br />
Jane Slack Sigloh ’56<br />
Monica Signoretti ’00<br />
Mr.* and Mrs. John V. Silcox, Jr.<br />
(Susanna Judd Silcox ’52)<br />
Elizabeth Perkinson Simmons ’78<br />
Margaret Lawrence Simmons ’49<br />
Sophie Simonard ’98<br />
Diana K. Simpson ’08<br />
Ann Connolly Simpson ’80<br />
Louis Burns and Susan D. Sinclair<br />
Mary Todd Singh ’59<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Sinner<br />
Judith Siskind<br />
Betty C. Skeen ’07<br />
Sara E. Skoglund ’99<br />
Ginger Carter Skoog ’97<br />
Patricia S. Skufca ’84<br />
Skyemar Foundation<br />
Carter Van Deventer Slatery ’49<br />
Dawn W. Slekis ’08<br />
Carey Thomas Slesinger ’74<br />
Emily Hunter Slingluff ’55<br />
David Sloan<br />
Kristen Swenson Sloop ’93<br />
Deborah B. Slutz ’10<br />
Wylie Jameson Small ’83<br />
Catherine Brownlee Smeltzer ’59<br />
Stephanie Wilt Smirnov ’88<br />
Aimee Olivia Nelson Smith ’82<br />
Albert J. Smith<br />
Amy K. Smith ’79<br />
Ann Whittingham Smith ’52<br />
Ann R. Smith ’74<br />
Anne G. Smith ’86<br />
Bethannie Swisher Smith ’01<br />
Blair Beebe Smith ’87<br />
Charles Lee Smith III<br />
Elizabeth Glass Smith ’70<br />
Elizabeth Oakley Smith ’73<br />
Ellen Bryan Tozzer Smith ’87<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon S. Smith<br />
Hallie Darby Smith ’67<br />
Jade Smith ’16<br />
Katharyn Kelly Smith ’76<br />
Lochrane Coleman Smith ’76<br />
Margaret Lotterhos Smith ’54<br />
Olivia T. Smith ’14<br />
Ruth Sanders Smith ’54<br />
Sheila Haskell Smith ’61<br />
Teresa Powell Smith ’82<br />
Nancy Gayle Smith-Jackson ’82<br />
Alice Allen Smyth ’62<br />
Stephanie Snead ’81<br />
Susanne Williams Snead ’64<br />
Martha Loftin Snell ’07<br />
Judith Whitacre Snider ’62<br />
Andrea Beerman Sonfield ’68<br />
Judith J. SoRelle<br />
Lorna Allen Sorley ’68<br />
Caroline Birdsall Sory ’61<br />
Katherine Blythe Southerland ’69<br />
Susan Moorman Southworth ’66<br />
Epiphany D. Soward ’15<br />
Nancy Lumpkin Sowers ’89<br />
Tracy Glaves Spalding ’84<br />
Judith Dunn Spangenberg ’64<br />
Janine Sparacio<br />
Katherine Lemming Sparkman ’99<br />
Karol Kroetz Sparks ’73<br />
Heather-Anne Speer ’06<br />
Rosalind Ray Spell ’74<br />
Arthur H. Sperry<br />
Virginia B. Spigener ’84<br />
Cora Morningstar Spiller ’50*<br />
Monica Saumweber Spillias ’73<br />
Joan Hobbs Spisso ’72<br />
Marian Spivey-Estrada ’01<br />
Laura Saunders Spratley ’66<br />
C. Allen Sprinkle<br />
Ingrid Weirick Squires ’86<br />
Amy B. St. John ’06<br />
Carol Ann Leslie St. John ’75<br />
Alexandra M. St. Pierre ’12<br />
Wenllian Jenkins Stallings ’47<br />
Caville Stanbury-Woolery ’06<br />
Jane Johnson Stanek ’68<br />
DJ Stanhope ’81<br />
David Stanley<br />
Virginia Williams Stanley ’66<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Beach Stanton<br />
(Christina Benson Stanton ’97)<br />
Margaret Stanton<br />
Wendy Congdon Stanton ’77<br />
State Farm Companies Foundation<br />
Caroline Coleman Stautberg ’62<br />
Clélie D. D. Steckel and Joshua A. Barrow<br />
Jane Street Steele ’56<br />
Kathleen Pretzfelder Steele ’73<br />
Linda Lucas Steele ’75<br />
Tracy L. Steele ’92<br />
Ann Maricle Stefano ’78<br />
Ashley Kraas Steinberg ’91<br />
Celia Newberg Steingold ’68<br />
Elina Stelman<br />
Stephen and Clara Smiley Fund, a donor advised<br />
fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Aja Grosvenor Stephens ’02<br />
Jocelyn M. Stephens ’11<br />
Patricia Cesak Stephenson ’73<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Steven L. Stephenson<br />
Annie Ward Stern ’66<br />
Amanda Davis Stevens ’02<br />
Catherine McNease Stevens ’86<br />
Elizabeth Little Stevens ’77<br />
Stacy McKimm Stevens ’97<br />
James Steward<br />
Alice Fales Stewart ’64<br />
Patricia C. Stewart<br />
Prof. and Mrs. Philip Stewart<br />
Charlotte Snead Stifel ’52<br />
Judith Bensen Stigle ’67<br />
Nedra Greer Stimpson ’51<br />
Sharon Halsey Stiteler ’73<br />
Alison Stockdale ’00<br />
Mary Copeland Stockton ’96<br />
Anne Stoddard ’68<br />
Anne Green Stone ’53<br />
Jacqueline Hekma Stone ’59<br />
Sally R. Stone<br />
Bonnie Moe Stook ’72<br />
Kimberly Mounger Storbeck ’94<br />
Storms Family Fund, a donor advised fund of<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Valeria Parker Storms ’58<br />
Bettie Roberson Stovall ’68<br />
Mary Foster Strickland ’74<br />
Jill M. Stromberg ’99<br />
Catherine Evans Stroud ’46<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Jill O’Ree Stryker ’87<br />
Prof. and Mrs. John Stubbs<br />
Prudence Gay Stuhr ’63<br />
Harriette Horsey Sturges ’66<br />
Elizabeth Nelson Suhr ’87<br />
Jane Hemenway Sullivan ’78<br />
Rachel M. Sullivan ’09<br />
Wendy Pressel Sullivan ’91<br />
Ms. Kerry Sullivan-Kaiser<br />
Kristen L. Summers and Joel S. Hasbrouck<br />
Jozanne S. Summerville ’04<br />
Jean Saunders Sumner ’88<br />
Marie E. Sushka ’67<br />
Cindy Sorenson Sutherland ’74<br />
Amanda Megargee Sutton ’71<br />
Betsy Stevens Sutton ’55<br />
Blair C. Sutton ’09<br />
Sarah W. Sutton ’83<br />
Scarlett E. Swain ’98<br />
Nancy Elizabeth Swann ’66<br />
Martha L. Swanson ’85<br />
Vinca Swanson ’94<br />
Signee Hoffman Swartley ’91<br />
Elizabeth B. Swearingen ’80<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong>-Held Charitable Trust, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment<br />
Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Lurline Tolbert <strong>Sweet</strong> ’65<br />
Melinda Moore <strong>Sweet</strong> ’60<br />
Dr. and Mrs.* James S. Swenberg<br />
Jennifer McDonaugh Swiatek ’02<br />
Katharine Baker Sydnor ’66<br />
Sarah Herndon Sydnor ’01<br />
Natalie Cutchin Tacke ’08<br />
Caroline L. Tade ’08<br />
Marcia D. Talley<br />
Joy Powell Talmon ’01<br />
Mallihai Lawrence Tambyah ’85<br />
Leila Thompson Taratus ’56<br />
Andrea Tarnowski<br />
Carol Moseley Tash ’69<br />
Patricia Tate<br />
Ann T. Taylor ’58<br />
Kathleen Watson Taylor ’65<br />
Evangeline Easterly Taylor ’00<br />
Mary Rachel Taylor ’10<br />
Kimberly Martin Tecklenburg ’03<br />
Madeleine Long Tellekamp ’67<br />
Mary Kimball Temple ’52<br />
Susan V. Temple<br />
Mary Tennant-Heckard ’82<br />
Toni E. Termotto and David J. Termotto<br />
Patricia Hassler Terrell ’47<br />
Martha Roton Terry ’71<br />
Beth Bogdan Tetrault ’79<br />
Deborah L. Thacker ’77<br />
Elizabeth Ball Thagard ’60<br />
The H. Spencer Everett Jr. Charitable Fund at<br />
Schwab Charitable<br />
Penelope Writer Theis ’64<br />
Caroline Keller Theus ’64<br />
Cynthia B. Thiele ’92<br />
Vera Blake Thiers ’77<br />
Emma G. Thom ’18<br />
Caroline M. Thomas ’19<br />
Eugenia Stark Thomas ’95<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Thomas V<br />
Kathryn Wright Thomas ’00<br />
Sarah Collins Thomas ’04<br />
Cassandra Lynn Thomas ’97<br />
DeAndrea Thomas Young ’95<br />
Marcia J. Thom-Kaley<br />
Cathy Weiss Thompson ’74<br />
Elodie Taylor Thompson ’71<br />
Jane Arensberg Thompson ’61<br />
Joanne Bossert Thompson ’59<br />
Julie Hickman Thompson ’85<br />
Patricia Beach Thompson ’52<br />
Ray Henley Thompson ’62<br />
Susan Boline Thompson ’80<br />
Tracy E. Imse Thomson ’93<br />
Elizabeth Schneider Thornton ’80<br />
Leslie C. Thornton ’75<br />
Deborah Massie Thurman ’76<br />
Ellen R. Thurman ’68<br />
Payson Jeter Tilden ’65<br />
Tracy Gilmore Tilkin ’86<br />
Mary Bell Timberlake ’67<br />
Elizabeth W. Haw and Jim Tinsman, Jr.<br />
Maria Jones Tisdale ’75<br />
Katherine Paige Tisher ’13<br />
John K. Todd<br />
Elizabeth McMahan Tolbert ’57<br />
Tom & Fay Smith Charitable Fund of<br />
Vanguard Charitable<br />
Teresa Pike Tomlinson ’87<br />
Edward D. Tompkins<br />
Alice Jones Torbett ’60<br />
Leslie C. Toro ’95<br />
Mary Craighill Tourgee ’81<br />
Laura Ann Humphress Toussaint ’06<br />
Katy Warren Towers ’70<br />
Linda W. Towers ’96<br />
Cynthia Little Townsend ’79<br />
Anne P. Toxey ’86<br />
Newell Bryan Tozzer ’55<br />
Erica Trabold<br />
Jill Armstrong Tracy ’90<br />
Randolph Anderson Trainor ’75<br />
Patronella Sykes Treadwell ’58<br />
Holly Brooke James Trent ’97<br />
Jill A. Triana ’99<br />
Rosemary Dunaway Trible ’71<br />
Stephanie Banton Troutman ’91<br />
Heidi L. Trude ’07<br />
Victoria A. Trudeau ’11<br />
Carol Exnicios Tucker ’53<br />
Freida Carpenter Tucker ’73<br />
Brice McRae Tunison ’91<br />
Louisa Z. Turner ’62<br />
Nicole Brandt Turner ’06<br />
Sandra Meads Turturro ’81<br />
Michal S. Twine ’68<br />
TY Ink Promotions, Inc.<br />
Patricia Lynn Longest Tyler ’80<br />
Amy Tyson<br />
UBS<br />
Linda R. Uihlein ’77<br />
Carolyn Black Underwood ’52<br />
Universal Leaf Tobacco Co.<br />
Susan Knapp Hurley Upshaw ’99<br />
Pilar C. Uribe ’84<br />
Karen Valanzano ’93<br />
Mary Blair Scott Valentine ’59<br />
W. Kent Van Allen, Jr.<br />
Barbara Dublin Van Cleve ’66<br />
Lee Cooper van de Velde ’58<br />
Alis E. Van Doorn ’86<br />
Katharine Weinrich van Geel ’65<br />
McKenzie Reed van Meel ’86<br />
Pamela Van Tassel ’73<br />
Beverly F. Van Zandt ’71<br />
Lucy Dennington Van Zandt ’73<br />
Jennifer C. Vance ’91<br />
Vanguard Group<br />
Sharon Singletary Vanzant ’69<br />
Jeri L. Vargo<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Vari<br />
Claire Cartwright Vaughan ’78<br />
Lyssa A. Vaught ’95<br />
Melissa Leib Veghte ’74<br />
Michelle E. Venema ’84<br />
Anne Proctor Verba ’07<br />
Victoria Chainski Verity ’66<br />
Dorothy Legare Davis Vest ’89<br />
Wanda F. Vest<br />
Annabelle B. Vesterman ’16<br />
Harold A. Via, Jr. (Ann May Via ’54*)<br />
Marion Harrison Vickers ’67<br />
Sally Estes Vigezzi ’93<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Jack Vine<br />
Glenna J. Vine ’11<br />
Virginia C. Pappas Giving account, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Lindsay Mactavish Vogt ’96<br />
Virginia-Anne Fowler Voigt ’04<br />
Hollis Hutchens Volk ’80<br />
Anne Souder von Weise ’86<br />
Madge Hall Vosteen ’85<br />
W. Duncan & Nivin MacMillan Foundation<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard W. Wackenhut<br />
Celeste C. Wackenhut ’08<br />
Lauren M. Wade ’05<br />
Yana Wagg ’95<br />
Jennifer M. Wagner ’97<br />
Marye Taylor Wagner ’73<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Marian R. Wahlgren ’84<br />
Jennifer Ann Walcott ’90<br />
Star Hollis Waldron ’86<br />
Elissa C. Walker ’75<br />
Gale Young Walker ’60<br />
Julia Snodgrass Walker ’83<br />
Wendy Webb Walker ’99<br />
Carrie M. Walkiewicz<br />
Marie Bandy Wall ’96<br />
Jennifer Kemper Wallis ’91<br />
Teresa Eoff Walsh ’70<br />
Susanne E. Walters ’84<br />
Andrea Sharretts Waltman ’99<br />
Lisa Moore Walton ’04<br />
Lura Coleman Wampler ’60<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Wandling<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wandling<br />
Jessica Bemis Ward ’63<br />
Christine Devol Wardlow ’63<br />
Pamela Compton Ware ’55<br />
Patricia Coxe Ware ’59<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Waring<br />
Christine Sherwood Warner ’73<br />
El Warner ’85<br />
Pamela Walsh Warren ’82<br />
Patricia Anderson Warren ’61<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Warren, Sr.<br />
Wendy Hyland Warren ’84<br />
Catherine R. Waterman ’11<br />
Diana Duffy Waterman ’83<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jon Waters<br />
Sarah Lawrence Watkins ’68<br />
Lindsay Hicks Watrous ’99<br />
Hallie N. Watson ’08<br />
Nancy Cunningham Watson ’75<br />
Kate Watson-Toth ’93<br />
Barbara Watts<br />
Elizabeth Andrews Watts ’74<br />
Lauren B. Watts ’12<br />
Margaret Murray Watts ’06<br />
Candice Pride Waycaster ’06<br />
Andrew D. Weaver<br />
Barbara Chase Webber ’54<br />
Tracie Allen Webber ’93<br />
Ann Kilpatrick Webster ’51<br />
Ellen B. Webster ’83<br />
Annegret P. Weckerle ’93<br />
Jane Best Wehland ’57<br />
Heather Bayfield Weidle ’94<br />
Elva Weigle<br />
Nancy J. Weigle ’95<br />
Pamela Weiler-Colling ’79<br />
Terry Kaufman and Gary B. Weinman<br />
Ilisa S. Weinberg ’14<br />
Katharine Harrington Welder ’95<br />
Marguerite Geer Wellborn ’56<br />
Elizabeth Melvin Wells ’99<br />
Anne Harrell Welsh ’55<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Lynn V. Westine ’79<br />
Robin Platt Wetherbee ’82<br />
Nan Tull Wezniak<br />
Alice Anderson Wharton ’75<br />
Elizabeth McKnight Whatley ’87<br />
Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeremy T. Whatmough<br />
Jane Bradley Wheeler ’64<br />
Courtney Huffman Whetstone ’95<br />
Emily Whaley Whipple ’61<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. White<br />
Angela Renee White ’05<br />
Caroline W. White ’79<br />
Elizabeth McLemore White ’70<br />
Ms. Jesse A. White ’86<br />
Kimberly Diane Shaheen White ’96<br />
Leigh Ann White ’86<br />
Wendelin A. White ’74<br />
Michelle Whitehead and Delmar L. Greenleaf<br />
Patricia Davis Whitehurst ’67<br />
Joan McCarthy Whiteman ’49<br />
Catherine Cranston Whitham ’75<br />
Mr. and Mrs. F. Mark Whittaker<br />
Karen Williams Wickre ’84<br />
Clifford C. Widmayer<br />
Margaret Richards Wiederseim ’78<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Herbert N. Wigder<br />
Janet Hughes Wiles ’80<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin E. Wilke<br />
S. Vance Wilkins, Jr.<br />
William and Joan Brodsky Foundation, Inc.<br />
Dianne Hunt Williams ’68<br />
Eleanor Keen Williams ’68<br />
Elizabeth M. Williams ’78<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Williams<br />
Lori Faust Williams ’81<br />
Louise Dunham Williams ’58<br />
Margaret B. Williams ’97<br />
Mary Ballou Handy Williams ’59<br />
Meredith Williams ’95<br />
Yolanda Avram Willis ’55<br />
Ann L. Wilson ’54<br />
Catherine M. Wilson ’02<br />
Courtenay Sands Wilson ’66<br />
Gail Hayman Wilson ’60<br />
Hildee Williams Wilson ’89<br />
Janet H. Wilson*<br />
Kimberly A. Wilson ’06<br />
Mary Elizabeth Friberg Wilson ’98<br />
Jane Stephenson Wilson ’67<br />
Virginia L. Wilson ’08<br />
Nancy Ray Wiltshire ’86<br />
Christine Jones Winder ’86<br />
Jeanne L. Windsor<br />
Heather Stevens Wine ’94<br />
Camille Mitchell Wingate ’84<br />
Patricia Wood Wingfield ’73<br />
Gail Zarwell Winkler ’76<br />
Lisa Fowler Winslow ’73<br />
Kimberly Ann Cutting Winter ’93<br />
Jennifer S. Wistrand<br />
Patricia Witcher Jordan ’89<br />
Melissa Gentry Witherow ’80<br />
Marcia G. Wittenbrook ’72<br />
Elizabeth W. Wiznerowicz ’99<br />
Betsy M. Wolfe ’68<br />
Patsy Perkins Wolverton ’62<br />
Edith Norman Wombwell ’53<br />
Swee-Lan Wong Dolan ’80<br />
Anthony C. Wood<br />
Joan Wright Wood ’83<br />
Kimberly J. Wood<br />
Marguerite McDaniel Wood ’57<br />
Keitt Matheson Wood ’63<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Wood III<br />
(Mina Walker Wood ’62)<br />
Nancy W. Wood ’63<br />
Helen Cantey Woodbridge ’44<br />
Rosanne L. Woodroof ’71<br />
Ms. Nan H. Woodson<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Woodward<br />
Anne Little Woolley ’83<br />
Nancy Finley Worcester ’85<br />
Ashley Allbritton Worley ’86<br />
Lori Edgar Worley ’77<br />
Betsy B. Worthington<br />
Barbara B. Wray ’81<br />
Mary Denny Scott Wray ’61<br />
Joan Broman Wright ’56<br />
Mtesa Cottemond Wright ’94<br />
Merrilee Davies Wroten ’93<br />
Barbara L. Wuehrmann ’71<br />
Joan Collins Wyatt ’85<br />
Alexandra Bernard Wyllie ’86<br />
Jaquelin Nicholson Wysong ’64<br />
Cheri Burritt Yates ’84<br />
Suzanne Yates ’70<br />
Ann H. Yauger ’78<br />
Carolyn Griffin Yeager ’92<br />
Mark R. Yeatts<br />
Susan Wooldridge Yeatts ’95<br />
Henry M. Yochum<br />
Anne Kendig Young ’63<br />
Jennifer E. Young ’11<br />
Lauren Place Young ’78<br />
Lucy B. Young<br />
Yunk Giving Fund, a donor advised fund of<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Kathryn Hagist Yunk ’91<br />
Doreen S. Zahn<br />
Catherine C. Zahrn ’98<br />
Shannon Bazar Zahrn ’99<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David Zak<br />
Nellie Min-Ju Kan ’94<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Zaniewski ’77<br />
Christine Marie Carriere Zazulak ’90<br />
Janis Thomas Zeanah ’52<br />
Diana L. Zeidel ’71<br />
Katherine Schupp Zeringue ’94<br />
Jenneane Jones Ziesenhenne ’75<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Zilke<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Zissu<br />
YOUNG ALUMNAE BELL<br />
TOWER SOCIETY<br />
The Bell Tower Society recognizes the importance<br />
of the bell tower in life at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong>. This<br />
society recognizes leadership giving by our youngest<br />
donors as it fits in their stage in life, whether gifts<br />
are made through monthly installments or as<br />
one-time gifts. The F Bell recognizes annual gifts of<br />
$250–$649 from alumnae within three years since<br />
graduation. The C Bell recognizes annual gifts of<br />
$750–$999 from alumnae within 4–6 years since<br />
graduation. The G Bell recognizes annual gifts of<br />
$1,000–$1,999 from alumnae within 7–9 years<br />
since graduation. The A Bell recognizes annual gifts<br />
of $2,000–$2,499 from alumnae within 10–12<br />
years since graduation. And finally, the D Bell<br />
recognizes annual gifts of $2,500+ from alumnae<br />
within 13–15 years since graduation.<br />
F Bell (Classes of 2017 – <strong>2020</strong>)<br />
Paige N. Chamblin ’18<br />
C Bell (Classes 2014-2016)<br />
Ju-Ren Ngiam ’14<br />
Kiera M. Cavalleri ’15<br />
G Bell (Classes 2011-2013)<br />
Martha Schley Kemp Smith ’12<br />
Stacy Ludington ’12<br />
A Bell (Classes 2008-2010)<br />
D Bell (Classes 2005-2007)<br />
Heidi A. Benson ’05<br />
Hannah J. Silva ’05<br />
INDIANA FLETCHER<br />
WILLIAMS ASSOCIATES<br />
The Indiana Fletcher Williams Associates<br />
recognizes and honors <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s faithful<br />
donors who follow in the philanthropic footsteps<br />
of our founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams, by<br />
providing for the <strong>College</strong> in their estate plans. If you<br />
are not listed below but have included <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
in your estate plans, please notify Claire Griffith at<br />
cgriffith@sbc.edu.<br />
Anonymous (19)<br />
Deborah Butteri Akers ’77<br />
Sheila K. Alexander and Robert R. Alexander<br />
Jean Meyer Aloe ’63<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Martha Garrison Anness ’48<br />
Carolyn Scott Arnold ’57<br />
Sarah G. Babcock ’83<br />
Anne Goebel Bain ’82<br />
Mary Fran Brown Ballard ’49<br />
Kathleen Peeples Ballou ’55<br />
Nella Gray Barkley ’55<br />
Chantel N. Bartlett ’98<br />
Melissa Halstead Baugher ’86<br />
Rachel Reynolds Baxtresser ’07<br />
Myth Monnich Bayoud ’80<br />
Kathryn Beard ’55<br />
Robin E. Behm ’79<br />
Polly Benson-Brown ’58<br />
Beryl Bergquist ’71<br />
Kristin Farris Bergquist ’03<br />
Mary Morris Gamble Booth ’50<br />
Barbara Sampson Borsch ’59<br />
Kay Diane Moore Bowles ’57<br />
Elizabeth Rodgers Boyd ’84<br />
Mrs. Caroline Casey Brandt ’49 ’49<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Owen W. Brodie<br />
Alice Cary Farmer Brown ’59<br />
Antoinette Christian Brown ’78<br />
Laura Lee Brown ’63<br />
Mary Jo Biscardi Brown ’86<br />
Nancy Dixon Brown ’63<br />
Rosamond Sample Brown ’64<br />
Sarah Betz Bucciero ’97<br />
Sarah M. Bumbaugh ’54<br />
Ethel Ogden Burwell ’58<br />
Evelyn Day Butler ’66<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Calandra<br />
Mary Cooke Carle ’59*<br />
Eugenie Carr ’68<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Carroll<br />
Elizabeth Frenzel Casalini ’82<br />
Elizabeth Stanly Cates ’63<br />
Bettye Thomas Chambers ’62<br />
Kirkland Tucker Clarkson ’53<br />
Sarah P. Clement ’75<br />
Lucy Darby Meston ’78<br />
Richard C. Colton, Jr.<br />
Barbara Tragakis Conner ’85<br />
Hilary Cooper Cook ’05<br />
Kim Patmore Cool ’62<br />
Barbara Bush Cooper ’81<br />
Carol Tanner Cover ’43<br />
Janet G. Crandall<br />
Susan Bronson Croft ’64<br />
Faith Croker ’54<br />
Paul D. Cronin<br />
Nannette McBurney Crowdus ’57<br />
Susan Andrews Cruess ’79<br />
Molly M. Currens ’89<br />
Jaquelin and Ralph Cusick<br />
( Jaquelin Ambler Cusick ’57)<br />
Diane Dalton ’67<br />
Jane McKenzie Davis ’03<br />
Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel<br />
Elise Wachenfeld dePapp ’55<br />
Lynne Gardner Detmer ’68<br />
Linda C. DeVogt ’86<br />
Alice Elizabeth Dixon ’82<br />
Marian Dolan ’76<br />
Julie G. Dorsett ’87<br />
Wilma Dotson<br />
Margaret McClellan Driscoll ’92<br />
Frances Early ’62<br />
Lynne Manov Echols ’71<br />
Michela A. English ’71<br />
Eleanor Crosby Erdman ’60<br />
Kimberley McGraw Euston ’92<br />
Carolyn Cannady Evans ’49<br />
Kimberly Harden Fella ’00<br />
Katherine Guerrant Fields ’53<br />
Mary-Fleming Willis Thompson ’66<br />
Libby Glenn Fisher ’83<br />
Linda A. Fite ’67<br />
Elizabeth Harvey FitzGerald ’68<br />
Cathy Patton Foose ’78<br />
Carol McMurtry Fowler ’57<br />
Mary Carter Frackelton ’72<br />
Dorothea M. Fuller ’53<br />
Sheila Nolan Fuller ’66 and Robert F. Fuller*<br />
Natalie and Geoffrey Funk<br />
(Natalie Roberts Funk ’66)<br />
Mrs. Judith F. Gager* and<br />
Mr. Forrest L. Gager, Jr.*<br />
Lynn Crosby Gammill ’58<br />
Janice K. Garfield ’73<br />
Ann Gateley ’70<br />
Reed Johns Gay ’53<br />
Maj. Gen. L. H. Ginn III H’55<br />
(Kathleen Button Ginn ’55*)<br />
Jane Piper Gleason ’74<br />
Laura Hand Glover ’86<br />
Jane H. Goodridge ’63<br />
Jane E. Gott ’70<br />
Clara Barton Green ’89<br />
Julia Charlotte Green ’13<br />
Virginia Chamblin Greene ’55<br />
Lorraine Haire ’91<br />
Lura Litton Griffin ’78<br />
Claire Dennison Griffith ’80<br />
Margaret Van Peenen Grimes ’54<br />
Roshani M. Gunewardene ’85<br />
Jon Halberstadt<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Barbara M. Hale ’60<br />
Mary Elizabeth Hannah ’62<br />
Sandra Elder Harper ’58<br />
Adele Vogel Harrell ’62<br />
Elizabeth Trueheart Harris ’49<br />
Jeanne Harris ’40<br />
Virginia Robinson Harris ’59<br />
Katherine A. Hearn ’85<br />
Katherine Powell Heller ’78<br />
Mayde Ludington Henningsen ’48*<br />
Anne Day Herrmann ’64<br />
Preston Hodges Hill ’49<br />
Betty-Potter Kinne Hillyer ’43<br />
Esther Jett Holland ’43*<br />
Martha C. Holland ’72<br />
Anne Gatling Honey ’60<br />
Kathleen M. Horan ’71<br />
Ann Pegram Howington ’59<br />
Leverett Hubbard, Jr.<br />
Cissy Humphrey ’76<br />
Mary Pope Maybank Hutson ’83<br />
Mary Bailey Izard ’52<br />
Carol Dickson Jahnke ’86<br />
Nancy Jenkins ’72<br />
Grace Butler Johnson ’66<br />
Gwen Speel Kaplan ’60<br />
Sara Kaplan ’02<br />
Kathleen A. Kavanagh ’74<br />
Jane Johnson Kent ’48<br />
Rebecca Faxon Knowles ’55<br />
Brooke Patterson Koehler ’65<br />
Jane Shipman Kuntz ’58<br />
Ashley Rogers LaGanga ’05<br />
Aileen H. Laing ’57<br />
Amy Campbell Lamphere ’80<br />
Helen Murchison Lane ’46<br />
Frances Griffith Laserson ’70<br />
Elizabeth Blackwell Laundon ’69<br />
Ann Colston Leonard ’47<br />
Jane Perry Liles ’53<br />
Karin I. Lindgren ’75<br />
Lucia Woods Lindley ’59<br />
Elizabeth R. Lindsey ’86<br />
Sarah R. Lindsey ’04<br />
Linda Lipscomb ’73<br />
Stacey Sickels Locke ’88<br />
Cheri (Harris) Lofland ’79<br />
Steven J. London (Lillian Dugger London ’73*)<br />
Randi Miles Long ’66<br />
Lisa Wray Longino ’78<br />
Valerie Stoddard Loring ’59<br />
Virginia Timmons Ludwick ’53<br />
Marion MacRae ’67<br />
Blanchette Chappell Maier ’73<br />
Harriet Wall Martin ’65<br />
Cornelia Long Matson ’58<br />
Emily Dick McAlister ’78<br />
Mary Lee McGinnis McClain ’54<br />
Margaret Graves McClung ’53<br />
Margaret Katterjohn McCollom ’40*<br />
Dr. Rebecca McCord, Professor of Music Emerita<br />
K. Holly McGlothlin ’78<br />
Cynthia A. McKay ’78<br />
Mrs. Peyton F. McLamb<br />
Dorothy Woods McLeod ’58<br />
Rebecca Towill McNair ’60<br />
Karen Medford ’72<br />
Heidi Menzel<br />
Karen Gill Meyer ’63<br />
Margot Saur Meyer ’60<br />
Norma Patteson Mills ’60<br />
Mary Street Montague ’51*<br />
Denise L. Montgomery ’75<br />
Catherine Taylor Moore ’78<br />
Louise P. Moore ’50<br />
Makanah Dunham Morriss ’66<br />
Vaughan Inge Morrissette ’54<br />
Frances Kirven Morse ’68<br />
Joy Reynolds Mouledoux ’84<br />
Frank F. Mountcastle, Jr.<br />
Helen Turner Murphy ’56<br />
June Jacqueline Speight Myers ’87<br />
Kathleen B. Nager ’53<br />
Tennessee Nielsen ’76<br />
Denise Wisell O’Connor ’71<br />
C. Gail Robins O’Quin ’67<br />
Mary A. Osborn ’73<br />
Cynthia Wilson Ottaway ’57<br />
Anna Chao Pai ’57<br />
Mary Hamilton Parsons ’78<br />
William M. Passano, Jr. H’55<br />
(Helen Addington Passano ’55*)<br />
Joanne Holbrook Patton ’52<br />
Kathleen Garcia Pegues ’71<br />
Ivana Pelnar-Zaiko H’06<br />
Jacqueline C. Penny ’71<br />
Elaine Newton Peters ’57<br />
Susan and Lee* Piepho<br />
Jeannette N. Pillsbury ’72<br />
Susan Dern Plank ’73<br />
Andria Calhoun Plonka ’67<br />
Sally Gammon Plummer ’54<br />
Catherine Tift Porter ’44<br />
Averala Paxton Poucher ’57<br />
Anne Litle Poulet ’64<br />
Judith B. Powell ’69<br />
Patricia P. Pusey ’60<br />
Elizabeth Kernan Quigley ’48<br />
Ann Felicity Keyser Rawley*<br />
Bettie Katherine Arnold Reed ’64<br />
Catherine Cox Reynolds ’49<br />
Nancie Howe Entenmann Roberts ’56<br />
Acacia Marie Salazar ’15<br />
Lynn Kahler Shirey ’76<br />
Mary Ann Mellen Root ’53<br />
Graham Maxwell Russell ’79<br />
Margaret Christian Ryan ’74<br />
Betty Rau Santandrea ’70<br />
Judith Welton Sargent ’59<br />
Ellen Harrison Saunders ’75<br />
Susan P. Scanlan ’69<br />
Linda Mae Visocan Scherr ’87<br />
Christina Bacchiani Schieffelin ’68<br />
E. Elaine Schuster ’58<br />
Harriet Houston Shaffer ’64<br />
Mary Alexander Sherwood ’53<br />
Dorothy Wyatt Shields ’58*<br />
Polly Sloan Shoemaker ’53*<br />
Jane Reeb Short ’74<br />
Susanna Judd Silcox ’52<br />
Allison Stemmons Simon ’63<br />
Anne Sinsheimer ’51<br />
Jane Collins Sjoberg ’53<br />
Dawn W. Slekis ’08<br />
Wylie Jameson Small ’83<br />
Anne Haw Spencer ’89<br />
Jeannine Corbett Squires ’66 and<br />
Jay Squires, MD<br />
DJ Stanhope, Class of ’81<br />
Janice Renne Steffen ’74<br />
Melanie Bowen Steglich ’78<br />
Jean Blanton Stein ’44<br />
Anne Stelle ’78<br />
Renee Sterling ’73<br />
Judith Bensen Stigle ’67<br />
Anne Allen Symonds ’62<br />
Paulett Long Taggart ’44<br />
Katherine Upchurch Takvorian ’72<br />
Margaret Cromwell Taliaferro ’49<br />
Sandra A. Taylor ’74<br />
Mildred Newman Thayer ’61<br />
Catherine L. Thomas ’98<br />
Jane (Kitchie) Roseberry Tolleson ’52*<br />
Teresa Pike Tomlinson ’87<br />
Virginia Hudson Toone ’53<br />
Newell Bryan Tozzer ’55<br />
Jane Fitzgerald Treherne-Thomas ’57*<br />
Linda R. Uihlein ’77<br />
Norma Bulls Valentine ’93<br />
Sally Schall Van Allen ’42<br />
Lucy Dennington Van Zandt ’73<br />
Sarah Underhill Viault ’60<br />
sbc.edu<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Jane Tatman Walker ’60<br />
Marion F. Walker ’72<br />
Wendy Igleheart Walker ’78<br />
Dawne Cotton Ward ’81<br />
Jessica Bemis Ward ’63<br />
Betty Byrne Gill Ware ’55<br />
Pamela Compton Ware ’55<br />
Barbara K. Warner ’46<br />
El Warner ’85<br />
Joan Davis Warren ’51<br />
Mrs. Janet A. Warrick<br />
Charlotte Heuer Watts ’57<br />
Langhorne Tuller Webster ’58*<br />
Ann K. Weigand<br />
Wendy C. Weiler ’71<br />
Gwendolyn Weiner ’62<br />
Anne Lyn Harrell Welsh ’55<br />
Elizabeth Smith White ’59<br />
Kenneth S. White<br />
Catherine Cranston Whitham ’75<br />
Elizabeth Colwill Wiegers ’59<br />
Patricia Wilder ’63<br />
Emory Gill Williams ’40*<br />
Sallie Yon Williams ’63<br />
Susan Whitten Williams ’78<br />
Florence Barclay Winston ’57<br />
Helen Pender Withers ’48<br />
Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, President Emerita<br />
Diane Duffield Wood ’57<br />
Keitt Matheson Wood ’63<br />
Susan Snodgrass Wynne ’72<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Yeager<br />
(Kathryn Prothro Yeager ’61)<br />
Susan Wooldridge Yeatts ’95<br />
Jacqueline Lowe Young ’53<br />
FIRST TIME DONORS<br />
In special recognition of those who joined the<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Donor Community in the 2019-<strong>2020</strong><br />
fiscal year ( July 1, 2019–June 30, <strong>2020</strong>),<br />
Thank you!<br />
Joan Armstrong Abington ’90<br />
Taylor M. Allen ’20<br />
Bianca Lucia Alvarado Gavilanes ’17<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Annable<br />
Leslie S. Ariail<br />
Lynn Settlemyer Arts ’68<br />
Suzanne S. Augur<br />
Blair C. Balmer<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Basco<br />
William Baumgarten<br />
Gabriella M. Bedsworth<br />
Danielle Erika Mary Bielenstein ’82<br />
Paul R. Bigelow<br />
Lisa Bleich<br />
Dorothy L. Boone<br />
James Brachman<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Bradford<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Brewer<br />
Ms. Lisa A. Jacobs and Mr. Paul F. Brinkman<br />
Phuong Tran Broome ’96<br />
Kiernan Burger<br />
Jason Aaron Capps<br />
Sarah Ryder Carter ’02<br />
Stephen M. Chaplin<br />
Adrienne Arnold Ciccarello ’04<br />
Kristin B. Cousins<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Currey<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Czarra<br />
Natalie L. Czarra ’22<br />
Helen E. Danner<br />
Stephanie Pearson Davis ’95<br />
Lisa E. Diard<br />
Mary DuBois<br />
James R. Eisenmann<br />
Sherine Mohamed S. El Banhawy ’97<br />
Tarah J. Eliason ’12<br />
Kathleen Brown Eney ’78<br />
Carolyn Bloxsom Fitzpatrick ’93<br />
Tranum Fitzpatrick, IV<br />
Carrra Floyd<br />
Hooshang Foroudastan<br />
Elizabeth A. Foster ’12<br />
Mary Frank<br />
Ralene Ann Friend and John P. Prieskorn<br />
Teresa A. Garrett<br />
Elizabeth F. Glotzbach<br />
Robert Goodlatte<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gorman<br />
Evangeline Fisher Grossman ’89<br />
Lydia M. Gullicksen ’18<br />
Dayna Gunn Gunn ’04<br />
* Deceased<br />
Note: The notation “H” followed by a class year (or on its own) indicates honorary alumna and/or class member status<br />
fall <strong>2020</strong><br />
131
DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Paul Gyaakye<br />
Ashlee C. Hall<br />
Leannan Harcourt-Brooke<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Paul X. Harder<br />
Anna L. Hearn<br />
Susan Hemphill<br />
Erin Gibbs Henrichs ’05<br />
Ms. Shannon Holcomb-Selbert and<br />
Mr. Parker David Selbert<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Huth<br />
Sallie D. Iselin<br />
Jane Johnston<br />
Evelyn Smith Jones ’96<br />
Kimberly Jones<br />
Caitlin A. Keany ’08<br />
Daniel H. Kellum<br />
Stephen Kelly<br />
Jody L. Kelso<br />
Susan C. Kesey<br />
Diana Kidane-Mariam ’76<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kocik<br />
Andrew M. Koenig<br />
Hannah K. Kowitz ’15<br />
Annie M. Labatt<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Lang<br />
Elizabeth M. Larabell<br />
Sammie Goyne Leary ’82<br />
Catherine Lignelli<br />
Beth D. Lindsay<br />
Lex Lindsey<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Lydick<br />
Nickcole K. Maynard-Errami<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Mayo-Pitts<br />
Kerrie H. McCoy<br />
Roland G. McIntosh<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Meighan<br />
Karen Ayers Merritt ’88<br />
Virginia W. Milam<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Miller<br />
Nancy Morris Miller ’83<br />
Sarah Smith Freeman Monroe ’75<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Raphael B. Montgomery<br />
Patricia Morrill<br />
Barbara Mosegard-Diamond and<br />
David M. Diamond<br />
John Nau<br />
Judith Newton<br />
Ju-Ren Ngiam ’14<br />
Mary Morris Park ’04<br />
Hallie Pence<br />
Elizabeth Tustin Phelps ’05<br />
Mr. and Mrs.Wayne Phillips<br />
Angelia Pippin<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Pitts<br />
Terri Brockwell Porter ’91<br />
Lisa J. Powell<br />
Elizabeth Cone Preston ’78<br />
Rebekah E. Ricksecker<br />
Stacey J. Rogers<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Rossi<br />
Jennifer M. Sauer<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Savitz<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Russell A. Muser<br />
Mariann Schick<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Schmidt<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Shenker<br />
Judith Siskind<br />
David Sloan<br />
Albert J. Smith<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Finis H. Southworth<br />
Janine Sparacio<br />
Arthur H. Sperry<br />
Elina Stelman<br />
Nancy T. Gray and Jean H. Stewart<br />
Sharon Halsey Stiteler ’73<br />
Mary Tennant-Heckard ’82<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Thomas V<br />
Tracy Gilmore Tilkin ’86<br />
Erica Trabold<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wandling<br />
Clifford C. Widmayer<br />
S. Vance Wilkins, Jr.<br />
Ms. Nan H. Woodson<br />
Betsy B. Worthington<br />
Lucy B. Young<br />
FRIENDS OF ART<br />
Donors to the Friends of Art for the 2019-<strong>2020</strong><br />
fiscal year ( July 1, 2019–June 30, <strong>2020</strong>)<br />
The Friends of Art maintains and collects art for<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s permanent teaching collection, funds<br />
financial scholarships for off-campus internships,<br />
offers prizes for student art contests, sponsors<br />
gallery events and publishes Visions, a magazine<br />
highlighting the arts at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>.<br />
The Argo Foundation<br />
Mr. Christopher F. Armstrong<br />
A. Hopie Carter Avery ’94<br />
Rebecca Carter Barger ’81<br />
Susan Terjen Bernard ’63<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Bradford III<br />
Mary Landon Smith Brugh ’57<br />
The Honorable and Mrs. William J. Cabaniss, Jr.<br />
(Catherine Caldwell Cabaniss ’61)<br />
Carter-Barger Family Fund of the Community<br />
Foundation of Gaston County, Inc.<br />
Catherine and William J. Cabaniss Advised Fund<br />
of the Community Foundation of<br />
Greater Birmingham<br />
Center Stage Dance Studio, Inc.<br />
Lucile McKee Clarkson ’69<br />
Barbara Bush Cooper ’81<br />
Laura L. Crum ’79<br />
Lee B. Cullum ’60<br />
Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel<br />
Alice V. Dodd ’65<br />
Hannah Davis Emig ’83<br />
Chloe Fort ’62<br />
Elizabeth A. Foster ’12<br />
Mary Frank**<br />
Susan Stephens Geyer ’74<br />
Anne Evans Gorry ’64<br />
Mary Sutherland Gwinn ’65<br />
Mary Koonz Gynn ’56<br />
Anne Booth Hauser ’64<br />
Louise Chapman Hoffman ’61<br />
Jacqueline Mabie Humphrey ’60<br />
Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride ’56<br />
Page M. Kjellstrom ’70<br />
Muriel Wikswo Lambert ’66<br />
Linda McGuire Last ’58<br />
Olympia A. K. LeHota ’20<br />
Sarah E. Lewis<br />
Linda Lipscomb ’73<br />
Gail P. Lloyd ’60<br />
Nan Dabbs Loftin ’81<br />
Lisa Wray Longino ’78<br />
Julia Fort Lowe ’63<br />
Laura Maus<br />
Maureen K. McGuire ’06<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Meeks<br />
Linda Sims Newmark ’60<br />
Louise C. Newton ’82<br />
David Norris<br />
Lamar Ellis Oglesby ’54<br />
Barbara Falge Openshaw ’57<br />
Carol Barnard Ottenberg ’60<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Parker<br />
Lindsay Eneguess Paulette ’11<br />
Olga N. Rigg ’04**<br />
Adelaide M. Russo ’68<br />
Prudence Sandifer Scott ’59<br />
Marshall Metcalf Seymour ’64<br />
Amy A. Simmons ’86**<br />
Allison Stemmons Simon ’63**<br />
Sarah Garrison Skidmore ’56<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Smiley<br />
Stephanie Wilt Smirnov ’88<br />
Ellen Bryan Tozzer Smith ’87<br />
Jade Smith ’16<br />
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** Gift of Art to the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Collection
DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Stephen and Clara Smiley Fund, a donor<br />
advised fund of Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Jocelyn M. Stephens ’11<br />
Mary Page Stewart ’78<br />
Catherine Evans Stroud ’46<br />
Cindy Sorenson Sutherland ’74**<br />
Caroline L. Taraschi ’87<br />
Mildred Newman Thayer ’61<br />
Alice Wood Thompson ’59<br />
Wanda F. Vest<br />
Cynthia H. Volk ’83<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Waring<br />
Nancy Cunningham Watson ’75<br />
Wendy C. Weiler ’71<br />
Pamela Weiler-Colling ’79<br />
Margaret B. Williams ’97<br />
FRIENDS OF ATHLETICS<br />
Donors to the Friends of Athletics for the 2019-<br />
<strong>2020</strong> fiscal year ( July 1, 2019-June 30, <strong>2020</strong>)<br />
Friends of Athletics sustains and promotes<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s commitment to sports by funding<br />
enhancements to intercollegiate athletics, including<br />
team travel, the annual Athletic Awards Banquet,<br />
uniforms, equipment not covered in the budget,<br />
and communications to build enthusiasm and<br />
increase attendance at students’ games and other<br />
community-building efforts.<br />
Anonymous ’60<br />
Michelle L. Badger ’06<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Basco<br />
Harriet McCormick Bobbitt ’63<br />
Alicia Bounds Bomhardt ’89<br />
Brianna Boswell Brown ’82<br />
Elizabeth Gantt Castles ’82<br />
Eileen Stroud Clark ’65<br />
Laura L. Crum ’79<br />
Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel<br />
Emily Marie Dent ’12<br />
True Dow ’80<br />
Debra A. Elkins ’93<br />
Laura M. Ferrazzano ’88<br />
Barbara Paulson Goodbarn ’83<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gorman<br />
Patricia Roby Gotfredson ’84<br />
Jenness S. Gough ’13<br />
Claire Dennison Griffith ’80 and<br />
Luther T. Griffith<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Groesch<br />
Katherine A. Hearn ’85<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hershman, Jr.<br />
Mary Pope M. Hutson ’83<br />
JRD Fund, a donor advised fund of Fidelity<br />
Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Barbara Tillman Kelley ’67<br />
Bonnie Kestner<br />
Sally Old Kitchin ’76<br />
Page M. Kjellstrom ’70<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kocik<br />
Jo Ann Soderquist Kramer ’64<br />
Jean G. Lewis ’87<br />
Sarah E. Lewis<br />
Hannah Lott<br />
Aoife Magner ’19<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Mayo-Pitts<br />
Leyte C. McNealus ’18<br />
Kristen Johnson Mortensen ’09<br />
Barbara Mosegard-Diamond and<br />
David M. Diamond<br />
Margaret MacKenzie Nowacki ’63<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Oybkhan<br />
Anna Chao Pai ’57<br />
Julia Paris ’99<br />
Lindsay Eneguess Paulette ’11<br />
Andrea Peterson Philips-Bramham ’76<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Pitts<br />
Adelaide M. Russo ’68<br />
Mr. Parker Selbert and<br />
Ms. Shannon Holcomb-Selbert<br />
Soren, LLC<br />
Janine Sparacio<br />
Caroline Coleman Stautberg ’62<br />
Clélie D. D. Steckel and Joshua A. Barrow<br />
Kay Pierce Sugarbaker ’93<br />
Wanda F. Vest<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Wandling<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wandling<br />
Wendy C. Weiler ’71<br />
Pamela Weiler-Colling ’79<br />
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY<br />
Donors to the Friends of the Library for the 2019-<br />
<strong>2020</strong> fiscal year ( July 1, 2019–June 30, <strong>2020</strong>)<br />
The Friends of the Library seek to encourage an<br />
understanding of the needs of the Mary Helen<br />
Cochran Library, as well as its available services,<br />
and to attract resources through gifts or bequests<br />
including monetary donations, books, manuscripts<br />
and other appropriate material.<br />
Ramona K. Akins ’77<br />
Nursat I. Aygen ’76<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Bonham<br />
Mary Green Borg ’64<br />
Joan Breier Brodsky ’67<br />
Gloria J. Cooper<br />
Anne Peyton Cooper ’50<br />
Laura L. Crum ’79<br />
Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel<br />
Elizabeth and Luther Dietrich<br />
Genevieve and Tim Fadool<br />
Monica G. Freeman ’73<br />
Adelaide H. Hapala<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hershman, Jr.<br />
Ellen Nichols Jump ’60<br />
Jean G. Lewis ’87<br />
Sarah E. Lewis<br />
Susan Lindsey<br />
Catherine A. Lumsden ’78<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Mather<br />
Sarane C. McHugh ’81<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mittelholtz<br />
Denise L. Montgomery ’75<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Carmen J. Palermo<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Parker<br />
Ruth R. Pillow<br />
Lynn Kahler Shirey ’76<br />
Raymond G. Ruff<br />
Adelaide M. Russo ’68<br />
C. Allen Sprinkle<br />
Sarah Anderson Stanton ’89<br />
Marcia D. Talley<br />
Toni E. Termotto and David J. Termotto<br />
Deborah L. Thacker ’77<br />
Wanda F. Vest<br />
Andrew D. Weaver<br />
Wendy C. Weiler ’71<br />
Pamela Weiler-Colling ’79<br />
William and Joan Brodsky Foundation, Inc.<br />
FRIENDS OF RIDING<br />
Donors to the Friends of Riding for the 2019-<br />
<strong>2020</strong> fiscal year ( July 1, 2019–June 30, <strong>2020</strong>)<br />
Friends of Riding promotes <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>’s riding<br />
program, paying special attention to the unique<br />
nature of the program. The program provides a<br />
range of opportunities, from constructive competitive<br />
experiences to recreational riding activities, while<br />
students pursue a quality liberal arts degree. Friends<br />
of Riding aims to augment the Riding Program by<br />
offering special clinics, assisting with uniform costs,<br />
maintaining the facilities, and supplementing team<br />
travel and expenses.<br />
Anonymous<br />
Claire T. Affleck ’03<br />
Katherine Rose Allison ’14<br />
Katherine Amsden ’53<br />
Sarah G. Babcock ’83<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Balding<br />
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DONOR HONOR ROLL<br />
Mary Brush Bass ’62<br />
Mona Wilson Beard ’51<br />
Brianna Belter ’13<br />
Harriet McCormick Bobbitt ’63<br />
Sue P. Brady and Thomas G. Honaker III<br />
Barbara A. Brand ’71<br />
Eleanor Sledge Burke ’64<br />
Elaine Horton Cavener ’65<br />
Madeleine R. Coleman ’16<br />
Deirdre S. Conley ’72<br />
Laura L. Crum ’79<br />
Jean Lindsay de Streel ’58<br />
Christine Witcover Dean ’68<br />
Monica F. Dean and Robert A. Steckel<br />
Elise Wachenfeld dePapp ’55<br />
Tria Pell Dove ’64<br />
Katherine Taylor Erickson ’80<br />
Elizabeth Fisch<br />
Jane Hutcherson Frierson ’74<br />
Sarah Dabbs Fryer ’72<br />
Karen Greer Gay ’74<br />
Lauren Michelle Perhala Gramlich ’12<br />
Beverley Crispin Heffernan ’75<br />
Janet Maynard Henderson ’60<br />
Thomas Lee Higginson, Jr.<br />
Katherine Cole Hite ’88<br />
Nancy Lea Houghton ’74<br />
Pamela C. Hughes ’74<br />
Jane Frierson Charitable Giving Fund at Fidelity<br />
Investment Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Margaret Enochs Jarvis ’83<br />
H. Daniel Jones III<br />
Alice Johnson Krendel ’72<br />
Shapleigh Donnelly LaPointe ’86<br />
Keedie Grones Leonard ’76<br />
Colleen Kuebel Lewis ’84<br />
Sarah E. Lewis<br />
Edna-Ann Osmanski Loftus ’72<br />
Mary E. Long<br />
Lisa Wray Longino ’78<br />
Faith Bullis Mace ’61<br />
Laura Maus<br />
Ann McAllister-Thomas ’87<br />
Elizabeth D. McMullen ’68<br />
Robert S. Meade<br />
Makanah Dunham Morriss ’66<br />
Donald R. Ober<br />
Kathy Gagnon Pappas ’81<br />
Bonnie Blew Pierie ’67<br />
Lezlie Varisco Pinto ’87<br />
Averala Paxton Poucher ’57<br />
Catherine Slatinshek Prillaman ’76<br />
Lynn Kahler Shirey ’76<br />
Raymond G. Ruff<br />
Adelaide M. Russo ’68<br />
Margaret Lyle Samdahl ’72<br />
Schwab Charitable<br />
Jane Russo Sheehan ’52<br />
Sledge Foundation<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Finis H. Southworth<br />
Starfish Charitable Foundation<br />
Cindy Sorenson Sutherland ’74<br />
Katharine Baker Sydnor ’66<br />
Kathleen Watson Taylor ’65<br />
Mary Kimball Temple ’52<br />
The Harbor Foundation<br />
Norma Stieh Bulls Valentine ’93<br />
Pamela Van Tassel ’73<br />
Wanda F. Vest<br />
Wendy C. Weiler ’71<br />
Pamela Weiler-Colling ’79<br />
Alysha Wiegand ’09<br />
Cassandra Whaling Wierman ’85<br />
Patricia Wood Wingfield ’73<br />
Gail Zarwell Winkler ’76<br />
Meredith Woo<br />
Dana Dewey Woody ’58<br />
Merrilee Davies Wroten ’93<br />
NEW BARN RESIDENTS<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> is home to one of the country’s most<br />
renowned equestrian programs, and for decades,<br />
our program has set the standard for collegiate<br />
riding. We offer among the finest indoor and<br />
outdoor riding facilities and a well-schooled string<br />
of horses with wins and placings in USEF-rated<br />
competitions. During the 2019-<strong>2020</strong> fiscal year,<br />
donors provided the <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> Riding Program<br />
with eight new horses.<br />
Castilli Corasonne Kanye<br />
Cedrik Fresco Stiles<br />
Clover<br />
Harrison<br />
NEW SCHOLARSHIPS<br />
During the 2019-<strong>2020</strong> academic year,<br />
individual and groups of donors established<br />
three new scholarships to support our students.<br />
These scholarships to ensure that the signature<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong> experience, steadfastly committed to<br />
their life and career success, is available to more<br />
students, every day.<br />
Colson Ewing Scholarship (Endowed)<br />
Established by Heather Colson Ewing ’90<br />
Student scholarships to be awarded at the<br />
discretion of the <strong>College</strong><br />
Nancy C. White ’79 Pre-Med<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Established by Thomas E. White<br />
Scholarship for a pre-med or pre-nursing<br />
student for her junior and senior years<br />
Magruder Excellence in Dance Award<br />
Established by Linda S. Fink, Carrie M. Brown<br />
and John Gregory Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Mark<br />
M. Magruder (Ella Hanson Magruder ’75), and<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Fein<br />
$250 annual award to a graduating senior<br />
dance major each spring in honor of Ella and<br />
Mark Magruder.<br />
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CLASS NOTES<br />
Use your<br />
IRA to<br />
support<br />
<strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
students,<br />
faculty and<br />
staff this<br />
year!<br />
Are you at least 70 ½? Do you want to make a convenient<br />
planned gift with a big impact before Dec. 31, <strong>2020</strong>?<br />
If so, consider a Qualified<br />
Charitable Distribution (QCD)<br />
from your IRA.<br />
Congress has waived the required minimum distribution in <strong>2020</strong>, but you can<br />
still make an IRA charitable rollover to help your favorite nonprofit: <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>! It’s an easy and cost-effective way to have a real impact on our students,<br />
faculty and at <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>.<br />
Not sure how to get started?<br />
Visit: sbc.edu/planned-giving<br />
For questions, contact:<br />
Claire Dennison Griffith ’80<br />
434-381-6479 | cgriffith@sbc.edu
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SAVE THE DATE<br />
SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE REUNION<br />
May 28-30, 2021<br />
Honoring the classes of 0s, 5s, 1s, and 6s<br />
Find out more and register at sbc.edu/reunion.