Class Notes

I enjoy life in Atlanta and want to play as much tennis as possible before my knees give out and I turn to duplicate bridge. I visit my grandchildren in California, and we planned an August family vacation at Big Sur before my son was to be deployed again to the Middle East. He was to be gone again this year for Thanksgiving and Christmas and miss the February birth of his third child. My daughter was to have another son in November, and I planned to visit to help with her 2-year-old.

Mary Lou Skeeter Murray, Lee Smith Musgrave, and I had our annual mini-reunion in Virginia Beach in April. Mary Lou travels to wherever her Navy husband is stationed but enjoys beach life too much to give up their home and move. Lee visits her grandchildren, does craft projects, and plays duplicate bridge. Agnes “Missy” Bush Shives, Sonja “Toni” Algren Schuyler, Kathy Tuttle Birnbaum, and Sandra Fields Seymour, suitemates sophomore year, had a May reunion in the Shenandoah Valley. They stayed at Massadoah, an old farmhouse near Woodstock, Va., on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, owned by Kathy and 10 other partners. They reminisced, shared recent chapters of their lives, hiked, bird-watched, and visited Girl Scout Camp May Flather, where Kathy, Toni, and Missy worked during summers at Mary Washington. They ended up at Kathy’s house in Herndon and drove into Washington, D.C., to visit the Martin Luther King Jr. and Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorials.

Margaret “Meg” Cobourn John said that, after much therapy, Trudy Kitchin Kohl, who fell in spring and had surgery on her neck and spine, went from not being able to move anything to being able to feed herself; she has movement in both legs and can straighten her fingers. Barbara Hagemann Hester and husband Ben planned to visit Meg and Kenny in July and go together to their daughter’s in Travelers Rest, S.C. They all plan a mini MWC reunion with Barbara Wohlfeil Weatherall and Joe of Ashville, with one missing from their junior-year suite – Bev Boudreau. Caroline Smith Parkinson retired from full-time parish ministry and moved to Richmond with husband Jim. She is on the board of the John Marshall Foundation and teaches at St. James’s Episcopal Church, does pastoral calling, and coaches clergy and parish vestries and search committees.

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