Class Notes

Donald Mulcare retired from NOAA in 2008. He worked as an adjunct professor in the Geographic Information Science program at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi until 2013. Prompted by his mother’s declining health, he moved to Florida to be with her.

Kathy Valentine lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband, Paul. She left her consulting work a year ago and started a full-time job with the law firm McKenna Long in Washington, D.C. She can work from home. She is the Desktop and Mobile Applications Manager in the Information Technology department. Her daughter turned 20 this year and is a rising junior at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. She is studying Event Planning and Hospitality. She has been on two mission trips to Haiti and loves the people and the place.

Kathy would love to hear from classmates! Her information is as follows: Kathy Valentine, 191 Glen Oban Drive, Arnold, MD, 21012. Phone is 410-647-0989. Email is Kathy@ValentineGraber.com.

Becky Mauck continues to work as director of the First Presbyterian Preschool in Richmond. She has two grandchildren and another on the way. She loves being a grandmother and looks forward to retiring and spending more time with her grandchildren.

Dena Kay Caulkins recently retired after 37 years working for the U.S. Government as a Senior Information Technology Specialist. She continues to participate in dance and music classes and events as she did at MWC. She enjoyed seeing fellow MWC dancers at the final performance of the Kathy Harty Gray Dance Theatre in Northern Virginia.

Margaret “Meg” Costello spent several days this summer in Fredericksburg with Molly Jones ’74, sister of Madelin Jones Barratt. She was writing a speech for the Working Class Studies Conference at Georgetown University on family, gender, and work. She enjoyed wandering around the Mary Washington campus checking out the new buildings. She spent time hiking and biking in West Virginia prior to visiting Molly. She still lives in Massachusetts, is semi-retired, active in sports, and is on the Stow, Massachusetts, Planning Board trying to control development and establish green zones for public use.

Nancy Saunders Puckett has been married 39 years to Jim. She has been a Director with Tupperware for 35 years and loves what she does!

Kathleen Chapman reported that her son Nick and his wife, Allie, have a baby boy. She and her husband, Michael, are very proud first-time grandparents. Nick is an Assistant Attorney General in Arizona. Her daughter Emily just got her master’s degree in psychology.

Kathleen is embarking on her 10th year working in the schools as a Speech and Language Pathologist Assistant and babysitting her grandson two days a week. She and Michael have been married 33 years! Her mother died five years ago and she still misses her. This summer they have plans to explore the Columbia River in Washington State and the coast of Oregon, too.

Sue Sendlein Luscomb’s daughter Ashton married Zachary Zimmerman in March 2015 in Savannah, Georgia. They live in Memphis near Sue and her husband, Rich. Ashton is the Associate Brand Manager for the Casablanca Fan division of the Hunter Fan Company. Zach is a Senior Financial Analyst, International with Wright Medical. Sue’s older daughter, Alicia Autry, began her pre-doctoral psychology internship—child and family track—at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and is living in New Hampshire. Her husband, Dustin Autry, is a pilot with Delta Airlines.

Sue is involved with Community Bible Study as a small group leader and continues to be active in PEO, a women’s philanthropic education organization. Sue and Rich went to California for the UVA/UCLA game in the Rose Bowl, joining Rich’s fraternity brother and his wife for the game and a vacation in California.

Yolande Long is going to be a grandma for the second time. She has a granddaughter, Olivia, by the expectant parents, her daughter Elizabeth, and son-in-law Travis. Her elder son, Ross, was promoted with Hardywood Park Craft Brewery and is now their Eastern Division Sales Manager and lives in Norfolk. Their ounger son, Drew, is in East Asia finishing his master’s degree in commerce from U.Va.  This is the “Global Immersion Experience” part of the degree to be conferred in August. Drew has traveled in South Korea, China, Greece, and Turkey. He has accepted a job with Capital One in Goochland.

Yolande is in contact with Beverly Hudnall Simons, Melissa Baisch Face ’78, Betsy Clark Pazahanick ’78, and Pamela Brown ’78.

Cindy Barrineau Thiele lives in Slidell, Louisiana, just across Lake Ponchartrain from New Orleans, with her husband, Mickey. He is a consultant engineer for the Naval Oceanographic Office and she has just retired as a Special Education teacher. She is looking forward to having more time for family and fun! Her son Michael is an artist.

Madelin Jones Barratt and her husband, Henry, celebrated 37 years of marriage in June.

Please send me your news. It is always good to hear from you all!