Class Notes

Once again, I’ve enjoyed talking to members of our class, many of whom I haven’t seen since we graduated. I’m still working my way through the alphabet, so if I haven’t contacted you, don’t let that keep you from sending news to the above email address. By the time you read this, I hope we will have been able to implement Joyce Rodgers Haddock’s suggestion to hold a Northern Virginia lunch, probably sometime in September, since there are so many of us in the area.

My husband, Jonathan, and I traveled again in May and June to Italy, where he likes to practice his Italian. We planned to go back to Lake George and Vermont in October. I planned to join the Boston Architectural College’s garden tour of Argentina and Uruguay just before Thanksgiving, which is their spring. I lived for several years in Uruguay and look forward to returning to that beautiful part of the world. In May, we welcomed our seventh granddaughter; not a boy in sight!

Joyce Rodgers Haddock of Alexandria, Va., retired five years ago from teaching at private and public schools. Granddaughter Eva is 8, grandson Alex is 2, and grandson Adam is 6 months. Faye “Russell” Hatcher of South Jersey spends summers on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with family. After retiring from 30 years of teaching, she headed the preschool program at Woodland Country Day School in New Jersey. She enjoys travel and church activities and has two daughters and five grandchildren. Russell has kept up with Mary Washington alumnae who were roommates in school, as well as later when she was working in Virginia Beach. She sees Mary Saunders Latimer of Suffolk, Va.; Beth Lyle Turner of Warrenton, Va., a retired radiologist who left after sophomore year; Lois Smith McDaniel of Gainesville, Va.; Nancy Hersh Gibbs, who divides her time between New Byrne, N.C., and Washington, D.C.; and Sara Tarrant Bernert of Richmond. Last year Russell visited Beth Wharton Williams, who lives in Austin, Texas, with husband Sam, and Linda Herrold Hansen, who lives in Georgetown, Texas, with husband Rick.

Peggy Perkins Hartman of Chesapeake, Va., is a retired Tidewater-area real estate agent. Her husband died last year, and she has two children and two grandchildren. She is in two bridge clubs and loves to travel. She visited South Africa in April and hopes to get to Kenya and Tanzania next year. For the moment, she was housebound with a new Scottie puppy to housebreak and four Himalayan cats. Mary Stewart Booth Ruhnke of Petersburg, Va., has two children and three grandchildren and goes to her beach house at Sandbridge in Virginia Beach in the summer.

Ann “Annie” Reardon Crowley Rowe of Madison, Va., joined Nancy Pida Remmers ’64 of Palm Coast, Fla., and Lola Koller Sarsfield of Dale City, Va., for a celebratory 70th birthday lunch in Manassas in June. Annie was completing her novel with help from a local writers’ group she founded. Her husband, watercolorist Mack Rowe, built his own studio at their home earlier this year. In May, the Rowes launched the Art Ark, with parties for family, friends, and fellow artists of the Firnew Farm Artists’ Circle, of which Mack is a member.