Class Notes

I celebrated my 70th birthday with close friends, colleagues, and family. I planned to work this summer on writing lectures in art history and literature for the Greenwich, Conn., adult education program, which I direct. I still work at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich. Sally Crenshaw Witt and I planned a June mini-reunion in NYC, but Sally welcomed Henry Clay Witt, her and Sam’s first grandchild, and I shared their joy vicariously. Sally had a spring reunion with Barbara Humphries Davenport, Sue Rogers Burton, Becky Spears Wright, Joanne Crockett, and Helen Vakos Standing.

Betsy Churchman Geary; Monie Argo Plueger of Vass, N.C.; Dottie McDowell Smith of Pinehurst, N.C.; Peggy Morgan Tarr of Columbia, S.C.; and Linda Rudd Davis of Salem, Mass., had a spring mini-reunion. They lunched at the home of Dottie and her husband, retired Adm. Leighton Smith, had dinner in Vass, and shopped in Seagrove, N.C. Betsy, her husband, and the Davises visited the Smiths’ condo in the Boone, N.C., mountains and lunched with them in Blowing Rock. Betty Gregory Wickersham of Bakersfield, Calif., couldn’t join them but planned to head east for her mother’s 100th birthday at Foster’s Castle, the Richmond-area home where Betty grew up.

Carolyn Ginsberg and I discovered we’d worked within a few miles of each other – she in Stamford and me in Greenwich, Conn. – for years. Carolyn divorced in 2000 after 33 years of marriage. Her three daughters and three grandchildren, ages 5 and younger, live nearby. Carolyn works in administration and adjunct teaching at the University of Connecticut, practices meditation, and designs small-scale drawing projects. Like me, she loves living close to NYC and its galleries and museums. We planned a July dinner in Stamford.

Barbara Ioanes lives in Washington, D.C., across the street from the zoo. Anne Liady Lynch has lived in Phoenix for 40 years. Daughter Betsy of Phoenix and her husband are architects and parents of Teagan Mae, 4. Daughter Caroline of Washington, D.C., is chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Daughter Stephanie earned a doctorate in physical therapy from VCU and moved to Peru for a yearlong volunteer position. Anne retired in 2007, but her husband still practices law. They planned trips to Arizona’s White Mountains and Coronado Island, off San Diego. Anne is active in DAR and serves on boards, including Maricopa County Parks and Recreation and the Arizona State Board of Accountancy.

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