Rosa Marion Adams Taddesse Adera Sara Wagner Adkerson ’47 Mamie Via Allen ’43 Edward Alvey Jr. Arabelle Laws Arrington ’41 Mary Hayes Attride ’67 Robert R. Auray Sr. Melba Bayne Ernestine Mae Lucky Beasley J. Christopher Bill Evelyn Ameen Billy Marie Black Florence Bodnar Susan Breedin ’86 Rachel Norris Bridger Megan L. Brown ’05 Andrew Buni Cindy Buso ’75 Hamlin Caldwell Jr. Joan Kelly Castner Emily M. Cella Gordon Lee Colston III John Francis Cope ’83 Elvere Conner Cox ’30 Mildred Stanford Creegan James H. Croushore Elizabeth Otis Currier Mary Jane Bassett Currier ’50 Vera Deihl Janet J. DeShazo Howard Carpenter DeSilva Edgar Drake Samuel T. Emory James Farmer C. Warren Forbush ’47 Beatrice Fordham ’29 Lois Milstead Goodwin ’38 James B. Gouger Anne Bradley Guerrant ’47 Sue Lukehart Hallden ’62 Anne F. Hamer Sidney Hamer William B. Hanson Mary Hope Harcum ’35 Florence Harding ’18 David A. Hawkens ’82 Sonja Haydar Barbara Heine ’57 Julia … [Read more...]
Memorial Gifts
In the last year, gifts have been made to the University of Mary Washington in memory of these beloved members of the community who have passed on.
CONDOLENCES
Mildred Chamberlain ’46, who lost her sister Lucille Clift Kimman ’49, who lost her sister Elizabeth “Betsy” Seekell Fletcher Adams ’51, who lost her husband Susan Hutcheson Jurgens ’52, who lost her husband Susan Bender Trotter ’57, who lost her husband Iris Hall Newton ’60, who lost her son Barbara “Babs” Buse Johnson ’61, who lost her mother Katherine “Kat” Caffee Gompf ’69, who lost her son Martha Yvonne Jones ’73, who lost her father Molly Elayne Jones ’74, who lost her father Madelin Ann Jones Barratt ’76, who lost her father Julia Collins Moss ’84, who lost her mother John Mark Scott ’84, who lost his father … [Read more...]
IN MEMORIAM
Rose Grantham Patterson ’29 Elizabeth Lacy Jones ’33 Dorothy Carmel Balser ’37 Alice Dew Hallberg ’37 Sarah Calvert Spillman Hitt ’38 Jeanne Persons Johnson ’40 Mary Miller Crigler Boldridge ’41 Barbara Apple Janes ’42 Elizabeth “Betty” Erma Parlin Newcomer ’42 Mary Frances Lazenby Truett ’42 Ruth Selecman Bristow ’43 Constance Leigh Ferebee ’43 Cleo James Chelekis Gorant ’43 Dorothy Arlene Ewing ’44 Carolyn Turner Jamison ’44 Florence Rose Leidy ’44 Gloria Epstein Roffman ’44 Ann Harris Skinner ’44 Helen Letha Hawley Turner ’44 Barbara “Bobbye” Pugh Floyd ’45 Louise Lilly Barrett Newsoms ’45 Miriam “Mim” Waters Nichols ’45 Isabel LeCompte Schulte ’45 Frances Felts Sellers ’45 Betty Lou Shaver-Toense ’45 Dorothy “Dot” Arrington Trivett ’45 Virginia “Ginny” Lamberth Williams-Edwards ’45 Janet Faith Keefer Wurmstich ’45 Margaret “Peggy” Chandler Findley ’46 Doris Fay Hinnant Hine ’46 Donna L. … [Read more...]
Books by Faculty
The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan, Crossing the Borders Within by Steve Rabson, adjunct professor of classics, philosophy, and religion
Three decades after living in Okinawa, where h e was stationed with the Army in the late ’60s, Steve Rabson returned for research. His two-year study resulted in The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan, Crossing the Borders Within, the first English-language book on the topic. It examines the struggles of Okinawans who emigrated from the North Pacific islanbd to mainland Japan and to minorities there; how this phenomenon was influenced by government regulations, corporate policies, and popular attitudes; and Japan’s more recent struggle to accept its citizens’ multi-ethnicity. While living in Osaka from 1999 to 2001, Rabson explored essential sources, conducted dozens of interviews, administered hundreds of questionnaires, and gleaned information from conversations over coffee with neighbors. Christopher Nelson, associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote of the book, “Readers will find themselves immersed in the experiences of … [Read more...]
Books by Alumni
The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice by Nathan Leslie ’94
As a 21-year-old traveling alone, camping and picking up hitchhikers from Maryland to Colorado, Nathan Leslie ’94 came across some interesting personalities. Years later, the cross-country excursion he took after college graduation inspired his début novel. In The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice, an orphan dreams of living in a “typical” home. But, as he’s tossed from country to city and coast to coast to stay with one eccentric relative after another, he begins to question his desire for a conventional life. Family relationships, childhood wonder, and the difficulties of establishing an identity in America are explored as Tommy gets to know Grandma Gaga, whose home is perched on Pike’s Peak; Aunt Tess, who hides things in her fluffy hair; Aunt Penny, who communicates through ESP; and Aunt Chelsea, who hunts coyotes. Jason Sanford, a founding editor of the quarterly journal Story South, said of the work, “I have long been a fan of Nathan’s first-person writing style, and this [novel] … [Read more...]
Milton Kline
Fresh out of high school with two potential summer jobs, Milton Kline was faced with a choice: pickles or paint? Taking a pass on the pickle factory position might have been the best decision he ever made. A chief painter at the University of Mary Washington, Kline has been covering the campus in satins and semi-glosses for more than three decades, but UMW’s walls aren’t all that he brightens. He does the same for employee morale as president of the Staff Advisory Council and for young people’s futures as leader of the popular student-painting program. He spends evenings writing referral letters to help his charges land jobs, turns up at their ballgames and class presentations to show support, and trusts them to do their own thing to help build their confidence. “I let students manage themselves,” Kline said. “In a student-run organization, they have ownership.” By now, Kline has his UMW painting schedule in sync with the school year. Projects like stairwells and railings can … [Read more...]
Centenarian Swims Into the Record Books
When Marie Krafft Kelleher ’35 attended Fredericksburg Teachers College, now the University of Mary Washington, students had to learn how to swim before they could graduate. That wasn’t a problem for Kelleher, who grew up in Alexandria, Va., spending lazy Sundays at nearby beaches and summer afternoons at the city pool. With nearly a century behind her − her 100th birthday is Dec. 21 − Kelleher is a record-setting swimmer who claimed two national titles this spring. She rises before dawn several mornings a week to squeeze in some laps before heading to work as board chairwoman and corporate secretary of the company she started with her late husband, Mike Kelleher. When she was in college, the Lee Hall pool, immaculately modern when it was built in 1927 with its fancy filtration system and tile-lined walls, became a harbor for Kelleher. But when she climbed into the passenger seat of her father’s car in 1931 to first see the campus, she wasn’t sure where she was headed. The … [Read more...]