Class Notes

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My granddaughter graduated from high school in June. She stayed with Neil and me for ninth and 10th grades. Since she went back to her San Leandro, Calif., school, I’ve missed her and learning the new slang, music, and fashion. When she was in ninth grade, I saw her leaving for school and asked if she was wearing thongs. She paled and asked why I wanted to know. I replied, “Because, I really don’t think they are good for your feet.” Who knew the shoes we called thongs had morphed into underwear?

Marian Minor’s brother, who is married to Frances Brittle Minor, fell on the steps while getting medicine for Frances and broke seven vertebrae. As of March, he’d had two surgeries and was still in rehab. In addition to helping them, Marian completed a book about the Minor family, finished renovating the 1795 Minor home in King and Queen, Va., sold the home place, and worked the past five years with the King and Queen Historical Society. Miriam majored in physical education; taught, coached, and refereed for 35 years; and earned a master’s degree.

Bad weather kept Sally Hanger Moravitz and Fran busy at their cottage. Fran is a member of the Jefferson Society, and he and Sally attended a reunion at U.Va. Sally planned to go to the Sacred Dance festival at Hope College in Michigan and on a September cruise with Fran to Danube.

Anne Lou Rohrbach Culwell was enjoying a great-great-grandbaby and traveled through the Chunnel and to London and Paris. Patricia Seitz Hartel works in real estate, enjoys her grandchildren, and was accepted in the National Society DAR. Joan Kleinknecht said the extreme heat got to her. One of Diane Farans Green’s grandson’s birthday is July 4. His older sister is a junior at the University of Connecticut. Diane, who also has an 11-year-old grandson and a 9-year-old granddaughter, has been a real estate broker since 1970. She’d been less active due to illness but was getting better every day.

The summer 2012 UMW Magazine featured a story on Hettie Cohen Jones, whose life and accomplishments have been extraordinary.