Class Notes

Special credit goes to those in our class who made it to our 55th reunion. Although I didn’t get to speak to everyone, those on the roster included Beverly Almond Tucker, Suzanne Borke Grasberger, Aldeen Burton Markle, Connie Crigler, Sandra Cutchins Pittman, Margaret Dorsey Purser, Mickey Foley McDaniel, Mary Goode Henry, Connie Hook Felvey, Marion Hoyt Lee, Ann Mitchell Wood, Carole Petley Toone, Beth Poteet Pollard, Eleanor Pratt, Page Richardson Coulthard, Marge Uhler Adcock, Angela Walton Barksdale, and Nanalou West Sauder.

I received a thank-you note from Marge Uhler Adcock. She enjoyed hearing President Richard V. Hurley’s update on Mary Washington and eating lunch with current UMW students on Saturday. The highlight of the weekend for many of us was dinner with the Hurleys at Brompton. They are a great addition to UMW. Marge related that Emma Spears Ellis was on a trip to Paris while her classmates toured the much-expanded UMW campus. Peggy Wood Wright was absent from our midst, attending graduations of four grandchildren. Her husband, Ed, died Oct. 31, 2010.

Bev Almond Tucker is a farming gal, making hay driving an air-conditioned tractor. She has two children and four grandchildren. Suzanne Borke Grasberger is surrounded by children and grandchildren who live nearby, and she volunteers at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and at her church school. Angela Walton Barksdale moved to Richmond and is a member of the Colonial Dames of America. Beth Poteet Pollard is an honorary member of her garden club and a volunteer for the Petersburg Area Art League and Preservation Virginia. Connie Hook Felvey plays tennis, kayaks, and belongs to a reading club in which members read different books rather than everyone reading the same one.

Stokey Saunders Scott and Ozzie Mask planned to attend the reunion, but last-minute health concerns kept them from joining us. Carole Petley Toone invited Ann Wood and me to a July lunch at her home before her annual trip to Barnegat Lighthouse in New Jersey to visit her sister. She also planned to visit Jeanetta Bishop Patane, whose husband, Bob, died in July 2010. Carole was recognized for her volunteer work teaching ESL at the Culpeper Literacy Council.