Class Notes

Some are still thrown off by the lag time between Class Notes deadline and publication dates, so check this issue for due dates. Thanks to everyone who sent updates! This magazine is a wonderful way to stay in touch.

In April, my husband, Tom, and I visited my aunt and uncle in Sarasota, Fla. In June, we visited my family in Lexington, Va., and attended Reunion Weekend. We had a great time at the Class Party, Reunion Picnic, wine tasting, and All-Class Party. I enjoyed hanging out with Bob Franklin, Kevin Osborn, Karolyn Hall, Marc Tate, Nellie King, Emma Collins Knight, Jarrod Epps, Kathryn Nash, and others. Seeing the Rabble Rousers at the Otter House was a blast from the past. It was wonderful to catch up with Todd Stayin ’91, Jeff Miers ’91, Barb Elwell Carmichael, Todd Tarring and Nicole Shaffer Tarring, Tevin Chaney, and others. Tom had a July work conference, and I spent the week with him on St. Simon’s Island, Ga. We are Atlanta Outdoor Club trip leaders and hike and camp throughout the Southeast.

We went whitewater rafting on Tennessee’s Ocoee River and spent weekends floating down the Chattahoochee River with friends. As social chair of my homeowners association’s board of directors, I planned pool parties and welcomed new families.

During Reunion Weekend, Kathleen Riopelle Roberts ran into Liam Cleaver and Ann Clayton Everett, had dinner with Sean Mahoney ’94 at Sammy T’s, and attended the Rabble Rousers show. Kathleen’s family took a June cross-country road trip and stayed with Chip Walker and family in St. Louis. Tevin Chaney, who sang at Busch Gardens during and after college, attended a summer Busch Gardens reunion, is in a relationship with Mary Ann McDonald ’91, and is finishing his graduate degree in geospatial information sciences.

Christine Harrison Grant is director of major gifts for the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina. Laura Norfolk of Old Town Alexandria owns Fusion Meetings & Events and was considering relocating to the Deep South. A couple years ago she had a crab feast with classmates from Custis Hall. At the reunion, Kathryn Nash of Rockville, Md., spent time with roommates Michelle Brown Floyd and Elizabeth Green Lambert. Kathryn, chief professional development and attorney recruiting officer at the Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley Rein LLP, has sons, ages 8 and 10. Missy Houck, a GEICO senior training specialist and independent consultant for Thirty-One Gifts, her husband of 16 years, Roger, and sons Cameron, 12, and Garrett, 8, of Virginia Beach spend weekends at Sandbridge. Missy spent a weekend there with Kristen Regula Heidkamp and family.

Karolyn Hall custom designs group motor coach tours and cruises for Signa Tours in Richmond, plays tennis, scuba dives, and sees Gabby Sulzbach Pickover. Jarrod Anthony Epps flew from Prague to attend Reunion Weekend, where President Richard V. Hurley and wife Rose treated him to a Brompton tour. He spent time with Brendan Casey. Jarrod anticipated his online betting startup going live in summer and in the fall the birth of twin boys. Kate Stanford McCown and husband John of Arkansas have Mary Ella, 9, Jack, 7, and Ashlyn, 1. The McCowns visited Northern Virginia in July and planned to visit Charleston, S.C., in November for John’s 20th reunion at the Citadel. Edna Coste Borchetta and financial advisor husband Gene of Fairfield County, Conn., took a three-week vacation with children Christian, 9, and Carriella, 6, and their golden retriever to Nauset Harbor in Cape Cod, Mass. After a few career changes, Edna, an at-home mom, spent 10 years in corporate marketing and communications. She’s in touch with the “MWC girls” responsible for the ’90-’92 quote board on Mason’s fourth floor, including Jennifer Peterson Riggle, Suzy Cole Ferger, Amy Morgen Liebert and her husband Karl Liebert ’93, Amy Larsen DeCarlo, and Nicole Rich Leona, who transferred from Mary Washington in ’91. The friends try to get together annually, and Edna was looking forward to traveling south for a November girl’s night!

Rene Rios and Sonya Snider Rios ’91 of Ashburn, Va., have a son, 15, and a daughter, 12. Nick Miller ’94 met up with Len Ornstein ’94 at a Scottsdale, Ariz., work meeting. Ashley C. Foster competed in six races at this year’s Unicycling World Championships in Bressanone, Italy, placing in the top 10 in each and winning, for mountain unicycling, gold medals in the cross-country and uphill races and a bronze in obstacles.