Class Notes

I received several long, newsy emails for this issue. Thanks, classmates! If you want to read them in their entirety, let me know and I’ll forward them to you. Meanwhile, here are synopses.

Charlotte James Young has lived in Murfreesboro, Tenn., with her family for nine years and teaches second grade at Discovery School. She is in her 17th year of teaching, after taking 10 years off to be with daughters Caroline, 13, and Catherine Ann, 10, who both are athletic like their parents and play travel soccer. Husband Phil teaches business and coaches cross country at the local high school. In November 2010, Charlotte was part of a 12-woman team that ran the Ragnar Relay, covering more than 200 miles, from Chattanooga to Nashville. Each runner ran three legs of four to six miles each, and they won their age division.

Patti Varner, a.k.a. Patricia Glenn Winne, lives on Tinsel Circle in Santa Claus, Ind. She actually enjoys experiencing Christmas 24/7/365 but hopes to relocate near family in Charlottesville and work in a private elementary school setting. Having been in education for more than 25 years, she has taught every grade from kindergarten to sixth and is now a library media/ technology specialist teacher for two schools. Her divorce six years ago, she said, was the best decision she’d made in years, though she is grateful for the daughters who came from that marriage. Older daughter Amanda of Northern Virginia was to make her a grandmother in September. Younger daughter Elizabeth was enrolled at Hollins University but had to withdraw for health reasons and will probably begin college again in Indiana.

Ann Marie Victor and Scott Stableford have lived in Virginia Beach for 15 years, raising their children. Daughter Seychelle (“yes, like the islands,” Scott wrote), is a photography major who was to earn her degree in art from VCU this year, and son Sean was to start at UMW in August, making his parents proud and eager to visit campus. Russell Berry is on the board of directors for the MetroTex Association of Realtors, which covers Dallas and Fort Worth and is the fifth largest association in the country, and serves on the Texas Association of Realtors’ Political Action Committee. Susan Waid Beard’s oldest, Thomas, was one of five seniors chosen this school year to be a Prefect, the highest leadership position, at Christ School, in Asheville, N.C.

Susann Lusnia, who still teaches classical studies at Tulane University, was appointed assistant director for the school’s new Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching. She is in charge of faculty development as it relates to classroom engagement. In the summer, she began a three-year term as director of the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome, leading a group of secondary school teachers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students through the monuments of ancient Rome and surrounding areas. Kathleen Dwyer Miller lives in Winchester, Va., with husband Gregg, an independent contractor for Herff Jones’ Scholastic division, and their children. She enjoys her New Orleans roots and, with her eight siblings, helped celebrate her mother’s 80th birthday last spring with a big party across Lake Pontchartrain.

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