Class Notes

Lisa Nichols lived in Mali and was interviewed in April on NPR and PRI about the refugee situation there. Son IJ Diakite joined UMW’s Class of 2016. Lisa was to move back to the U.S. in August and work from Abt Associates’ home office. Vicky Wilder’s youngest daughter, Maggie, attends UMW and was in Riverside Center’s Anything Goes. Middle child Tori graduated with honors from UMW. Friends of Dance helped produce the February Sonja Haydar Scholarship fundraiser, For the Love of Dance, along with the company of Kathy Harty Gray, a dance professor during our Mary Washington years. Her dance suite, Grant Us Courage… Grant Us Peace, was inspired by her three NYC firemen brothers who were at Ground Zero.