Class Notes

Sue Canter wrote that after graduation she moved to New York City and did some off-Broadway acting and odd secretarial jobs so she could eat! She next moved to California and worked on TV scripts. She was executive assistant to the producer for Red Skelton’s company for eight years and handled the detail work of the foreign sale of Red’s TV show. Sue bought a house in Hollywood Hills and became a casting director for NBC. In 1972 she enrolled in law school at night and graduated in 1976 second in her class. She married her professor, Presiding Judge Earl Riley of the Probate Court in Los Angeles, in 1975. They went to Mauna Kea Beach, Hawaii, to celebrate when she passed the bar exam. She served 13 years as an assistant D.A. in Los Angeles County.

Upon their retirements, she and the judge split their time between Kona, Hawaii, and Los Angeles. After her husband’s death in 2000, Sue made Hawaii her full-time home. She became secretary of Hawaii County and the State of Hawaii Republican Party. She founded and funded the IRS-approved non-profit Hawaii County Ronald Reagan Scholarship Fund, doing all the work from fundraising to secretarial duties from her home and donating 100 percent to college scholarships for 47 kids who were chosen on the basis of essays written on the Bill of Rights. She also personally helped 10 other students get through college; one is now a doctor in his residency in anesthesiology at the University of Texas in Houston. Sue has traveled to 45 different countries on six continents. This is just a brief outline of her life.

I connected with my sophomore roommate, Dixie Moore Kirby. She and her husband, Wallace, live in Asheville, North Carolina. Her daughters and granddaughters are spread world-wide. The eldest, Walker, is in Raleigh, but of the other two, one is in Sweden and the other is in San Francisco. Her granddaughters are in New York, England, and Raleigh.